Panels

Panels

Files

Find and delete the data Dope Track has written to disk.

Node Editor sidebar, Dope Track tab. Collapsed by default.

Tracking writes a lot to disk. Extracted image sequences, solves, masks, depth maps, dense clouds, clean plates. This panel finds all of it and lets you delete what you no longer need.

Two separate scans

The panel has two sections, and each one keeps its own list. Scanning one never clears the other, so you can have both on screen at once.

SectionWhat it looks at
This FileData belonging to the .blend you have open
Other FilesData from your other projects

Nothing is listed until you press the scan button. Until then the button is the whole section, so there's no empty list to puzzle over.

Reading the list

Once a scan finishes you get two dropdowns and a total.

Type filters the list down to one kind of data. It's per section, so the two lists filter independently. The types are Image Sequences, Masks, Depth, Auto Track, Tracking & Solves, Clean Plate, and Other.

Sort is shared by both sections:

SortOrder
Largest FirstBiggest first. This is the default, because it's what you want when you're reclaiming space.
NameAlphabetical
TypeGrouped by what created it

With the filter on All Types and the sort on Type, the rows are split under headings for each type. Any other combination gives you one flat list.

Above the rows, a line gives the count and the combined size of whatever is currently showing.

Each row

A row shows the name and its size, followed by up to three buttons.

ButtonWhat it does
SelectSelects the node in your graph that points at this data. Only shown when a node still uses it.
Open folderOpens the location in your file browser
DeleteRemoves it

That Select button is the useful one. It answers "is anything still using this?" before you delete, since a row without it is not referenced by the file you have open.

Deleting is permanent, and a node pointing at deleted data will need to run again.