Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Killer Tips

I'm not talking about a visit to the plastic surgeon here (although often our projects could use a little liposuction). If your files are getting out of hand, go to your Library, open the Panel menu, and choose "Select Unused Items." This will automatically select every asset in your Library that does not have an instance placed on a Timeline somewhere.

You may need to do this a few times to get all of them because removing one item that has another unused item will make all those items that are on its Timeline unused.

Be careful, though. If you are attaching any movies using ActionScript, this method will count them as unused because they aren't physically placed anywhere. I'd recommend keeping these assets in special folders so that you don't grab the wrong ones.