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Strange project sizes
Hi guys,
I've seen a lot of forum messages about overlarge project sizes and artifact information causing project file size growth. What I've just discovered, however, has me totally confused on this issue.
In an effort to resolve other problems (my autosize caption issue from a previous message), I ended up creating a series of blank projects (as advised in many of the reduce-project-size solutions) in which to copy and paste the slides from my troubled projects (I first tested with one and not only achieved some success with better resizing of my captions but also got a whopping file size reduction from 9,000KB to 3,000KB).
Before I even got to the copy-and-paste stage, however, I noted really strange behaviour with my blank project sizes. At first, I created a project (Step5, and somewhat later Step5_skin for the blank project with the custom skin) ... then since I had a lot of projects to move over, I thought to simply "Save As" the blank project to several names as a shortcut rather than creating each from scratch. I also wanted to apply our custom skin to the blank projects before copying and pasting but I forgot to do so for the first "Save As" I did. The following summarizes the results for each blank project file, including their sizes:
Step5 = 125KB, new blank project with current skin, one default slide
Step5a = 235KB, simply a Save As of Step5, with no additions, no changes to the project whatsoever
(110KB increase due to Save As)
Step5a_skin = 241KB, Save As of Step5a after having added our custom skin to the project
(6KB increase due to either skin or Save As)
Step5a_2 = 240KB, reopened Step5 and did another Save As (just exactly as when creating Step5a)
(5KB more than doing the Save As from the original creation of Step5)
Step5x_skin = 125KB, reopened Step5a_skin and did a Save As without changing anything in the project
(reduction of 116KB!)
Step5xx_skin = 240KB, reopened Step5x_skin and did a Save As without changing anything in the project
(increase of 115KB)
Step5xxx_skin = 240KB, kept newly created Step5xx_skin open without changes and did a Save As
(same size as source .cp but the Step5xx_skin .cp file reduced size to 235KB as soon as this new file was saved from it! Then tried creating yet another Save As from this file and the new one created at 240KB while this one then reduced to 236.)
Does any of this make any sense to anyone out there? Just why am I getting these madly fluctuating file sizes on exactly the same minimal projects???
Gail
I've seen a lot of forum messages about overlarge project sizes and artifact information causing project file size growth. What I've just discovered, however, has me totally confused on this issue.
In an effort to resolve other problems (my autosize caption issue from a previous message), I ended up creating a series of blank projects (as advised in many of the reduce-project-size solutions) in which to copy and paste the slides from my troubled projects (I first tested with one and not only achieved some success with better resizing of my captions but also got a whopping file size reduction from 9,000KB to 3,000KB).
Before I even got to the copy-and-paste stage, however, I noted really strange behaviour with my blank project sizes. At first, I created a project (Step5, and somewhat later Step5_skin for the blank project with the custom skin) ... then since I had a lot of projects to move over, I thought to simply "Save As" the blank project to several names as a shortcut rather than creating each from scratch. I also wanted to apply our custom skin to the blank projects before copying and pasting but I forgot to do so for the first "Save As" I did. The following summarizes the results for each blank project file, including their sizes:
Step5 = 125KB, new blank project with current skin, one default slide
Step5a = 235KB, simply a Save As of Step5, with no additions, no changes to the project whatsoever
(110KB increase due to Save As)
Step5a_skin = 241KB, Save As of Step5a after having added our custom skin to the project
(6KB increase due to either skin or Save As)
Step5a_2 = 240KB, reopened Step5 and did another Save As (just exactly as when creating Step5a)
(5KB more than doing the Save As from the original creation of Step5)
Step5x_skin = 125KB, reopened Step5a_skin and did a Save As without changing anything in the project
(reduction of 116KB!)
Step5xx_skin = 240KB, reopened Step5x_skin and did a Save As without changing anything in the project
(increase of 115KB)
Step5xxx_skin = 240KB, kept newly created Step5xx_skin open without changes and did a Save As
(same size as source .cp but the Step5xx_skin .cp file reduced size to 235KB as soon as this new file was saved from it! Then tried creating yet another Save As from this file and the new one created at 240KB while this one then reduced to 236.)
Does any of this make any sense to anyone out there? Just why am I getting these madly fluctuating file sizes on exactly the same minimal projects???
Gail
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