[Audacity-quality] "Delete orphaned files (safe and recommended)"

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

"Delete orphaned files (safe and recommended)"
Under what circumstances is it safe and/or recommended?
>From my own experience, and from numerous posts on the forum it is
profoundly unsafe and to be avoided as it destroys the last ditch hope
of salvaging data from a broken project.

Steve D