Issue with sws/s&s extensions?

Hi, i just downloaded the sws/s&s extensions just to preform the action: "delete active take and source file in selected items", so when im gonna replace a failed vocal line, the old one dosent take space on my hdd (trust me, it can be a lot after a while). The problem is that i do a lot of splitting of items. When i want to remove an item completely, i suddenly notice that the item i removed was a split of a item i needed. Is there any solution to this problem? I often do several projects (remixes and stuff) in the same folder so "clean current project directory" could be risky. Is there any good solution to this?

live and learn. check your recycle bin. You'll have a much easier time if you just try to come to terms with the fact that this process takes a lot of HD space. Look on the bright side, imagine if you were doing video.

what James says is good advice but also, IF you get to where you have mostly finalized some item, and it has splits... then take each of those split items and use glue to glue it to itself. This makes it a unique new item that is not dependent on it's original item. Then when you are ready, you can clean the project.

My advice(s) would be: Never ever do several projects in the same directory! NEVER! Unless you're short on diskspace, don't bother with this kind of thing until your project is done and as last step clean the project directory (which should contain only one project). -Data

maybe in the project directory, he is entering the full pathname, instead of a relative one?

My advice would be to slow down and not fuss over HD space during a project. Keep your projects organized in their own folders and it's a simple task to delete any unused files when finished. Protools had that feature as a default shortcut. Hit "⌘." and permanently erase a new take (while it's still recording even). I never lost anything but I actually stupidly used this sometimes (just because it was there)! And then always worried about... Client: No wait. Keep that one. You: ... A destructive command like that is just plain stupid and I certainly won't be assigning anything like that in Reaper! Just manage your projects and don't worry about drive space during production. And if your hard drives are all getting too full to find a free 100GB or whatever size chunk of space, then catch up on your archiving first!

Ive put a snapshot of what i got in notepad in the attachments. Also, when i rename the project folder and go to project settings, it still says the old dame in the old location.

Yes, this actually is something I already suspected you have done. The samples of the sampler VST don't belong to the project; they belong to the sampler VST. That's a totally different thing, because Reaper doesn't have access to the samples and doesn't know where they are, but the sample VST does. On the other hand Reaper accesses the soundfiles you loaded into the project or recorded while the session was running, but eventually existing VST samplers will not know about them. Also Reaper doesn't know about any soundfiles in the same directory created by some other projects. It only knows about soundfiles of the current project, no matter, whether they are used in several projects or not. If you install whatever sample player or sampler VST, you have to determine where it can find the samples. This can be your project directory (wrong) or a specific directory for this sampler VST (right). Excuse this poor comparison, but when taking a meal you wouldn't like to have the appetizer, the main dish and the dessert all at the same time muddled on one plate, would you? ;) -Data

Could it be a smart thing to make a shortcut to all of my projects on the desktop, or could this lead to problems?

This can be helpful when starting Reaper with a desired project, but it doesn't have anything to do with organizing projects in folders. It's a different thing. -Data