Cannot delete comments

[Justin22516290o6wm]

I have 50,000 comments in a PDF document probably leading to the reasons why Adobe Acrobat DC is so unbelievably slow, unsuable, constantly crashes, and stops responding. I pay for this software and this is unacceptable and leading to lost productivty and frustration. WHY can't I delete these comments? I highlight all 50,000 comments and delete is greyed out. 

[CPAlexander]

Use the Redact tool to use Sanitize Document and selectively remove only the comments.

[try67]

Try running this script on it:

this.syncAnnotScan();
var annots = this.getAnnots();
if (annots!=null) {
	for (var i=annots.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
		var annot = annots[i];
		annot.destroy();
	}
}

[B i r n o u]

print document as a new PDF without comments

[Luke Jennings3 · Accepted solution]

File> Save as other> Optimized PDF.

Saving as an optimized pdf and choosing to discard and clean up anything you don't need should reduce the size and might help with the other issues you are having.

[Bruce38484837ex0p]

that worked for me, I did not try the script method.

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