Zero Contents - Giant Size

pderks · Post by **pderks** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 8:59 pm

Hi,

after a lot of usual editing and testing operations on a newly created 1500 x 1000 pixel stack of 4 cards, I realized this stack's obscene size of 88 MB. I deleted all cards but the first one, all scripts, all buttons, fields, images, graphics, players …

I have left over a stack, that now has a file size of 86.008.948 Bytes.

Is there a nerd to examine my stack ?

With greetings from Peter

[-hh] · Post by **[-hh]** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:48 pm

You could try

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compact this stack

and read the note regarding "save" in the description to the dictionary entry of "compact".

With greetings from hh

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 11:48 pm

Hi Peter,

did you try to make a copy with "Save as..." of your stack and see what that gives?
Sometimes (sic!) writing the stack back to a new file fixes this kind of weirdenss.

Best

Klaus

FourthWorld · Post by **FourthWorld** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 1:48 am

Two types of things that may contribute to stack file size but not be obvious: custom properties in the remaining objects, and groups that had been created but are no longer placed on any cards.

dunbarx · Post by **dunbarx** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 3:51 am

Klaus makes a point with "Save as..." since saving from the menuBar automatically compacts, whereas saving from a handler does not.

Craig Newman

pderks · Post by **pderks** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 2:36 pm

Hi,

thank you all, you nothing but most prestigious LC experts …

I seem to own a unique stack: it has 1 card (1500 x 1000 pixels), but absolute no controls, no custom properties, no images, no graphics … but a file size of 88 MB. Compacting and | or saving works well (but time consuming) per menu or per message or per script, but does change nothing.

I can't say it more unmistakable, and offer again my stack for examination.

Thank you

Peter

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 3:16 pm

Hi Peter,

I would like to take a look, can you put it somewhere on a server/Dropbox etc. and send me the link?
klaus AT major-k.de

Best

Klaus

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Wed Oct 19, 2016 4:13 pm

Hi all,

the solution:
There were 79 unplaced groups left in the stack, which explains it all

Best

Klaus

dunbarx · Post by **dunbarx** » Wed Oct 19, 2016 4:43 pm

Aha.

79? I do not think I have made that many this year.

Craig

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Wed Oct 19, 2016 4:56 pm

dunbarx wrote:Aha.

79? I do not think I have made that many this year.

Craig

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