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Ayman
August 27th, 2008, 11:18 AM
Is there is a way to select an item in the library, and choose to show a list of all locations where this item is used.

I have a lot of items and I want to delete some which I think arent used anywhere in the project, but Im afraid of that 1% chance that one of those items is used somewhere critical, then it will spoil my application.

Thanks

Anil_kumar
August 27th, 2008, 11:32 AM
Select "Select Unused Items" in lib menu n delete them all.

senocular
August 27th, 2008, 11:35 AM
Window > Movie Explorer can help, but I think that only works for objects on your main timeline... though you can show library items, I don't think it tells you where they are (just their hierarchy). Anyway, something to play around with.

Similarly, and maybe not too much help, there is a use count column in the library that shows you how many times an object is being used (select unused will select the unused ones, but this doesn't account for dynamic movie clips exported in first frame which could break actionscript if they're not on the timeline too).

You could also probably create a custom command to get you this information. I wrote one a while back to extract ActionScript from a movie:
http://www.senocular.com/pub/flash/Export%20ActionScript.jsfl
(note to actually use this you have to include the Export ActionScript folder and template file in your commands directory)

Something similar could be done to pin point asset usage

Ayman
August 27th, 2008, 12:14 PM
Thanks guys. You solutions solved my problem