Remove unused assets from project

General Feedback & Requests
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Would it be possible to have a feature that goes through and removes all unused assets? That would be awesome, thanks :3

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+1 A nod for 10 characters.

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There is a way to do this already but not automatically.

Create a new blank project. Then migrate the maps containing the assets you want to keep to that new blank project. That will leave behind any unused assets. I do this all the time and it works well to clean up project folders that have become bloated with unused or out of date assets.

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Python scripting is perfect for this kind of operations.

Such script will do the job.

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there is a plugin on the marketplace that does this

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aqkotz, what’s the plugin name u mentioned above?

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I made a plugin that does exactly what you’re asking for (might be what aqkotz is talking about)

Hope it helps

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Btw it’s part of the march sale at half price
Check it out

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Doesn’t work all the time. References to MyCustomGameInstance got all messed up.

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This topic is years old, we have a really good solution now. Use GitHub - ashe23/ProjectCleaner: UE4 plugin for managing all unused assets and empty folders in pro

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Thank you for the reply!
I’ll check it out!

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Moth Doctor, would there be any way to have this script support soft references? I ran a dry run of it in my project but it flagged a lot of files that are only soft referenced.