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dcrouse10
Inspiring
July 26, 2011
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Clean up a Project

  • July 26, 2011
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Is there any way to clean up a project file?

I have a 157 page routine that is 89MB in size, and its causing all kinds of problems trying to publish (I've looked over the other threads and haven't got it working from any of them).  As a test, I deleted all of the pages in the project, added a new one (blank) since the project needs at least one, cleaned out the library and saved.  Its now down to 82MB (and it still fails to publish).  That's a lot of file for an empty project.  This tells me that there is a lot of junk/overhead/rubbish in this project that needs to go.

Is there any way to take out the trash?  Is there a routine that dumps the unused crap?  Is there a file that can be deleted?  I have cleaned out the cache and removed the preferences folder.  A utility that can be downloaded, perhaps?  I have worked with programs that don't delete things when you delete them, it just hides them until you hit the magic button that flushes everything out.  Where's the magic button?

Copy and paste into a new project didn't work (not everything got copied, nevermind the links being broken), and this is starting to eat up more of my time than I can afford.

Help!  Thanks.

(both XP and Win7 used, CP 5.0.2.630)
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    dcrouse10Author
    Inspiring
    August 2, 2011

    A collegue metioned that anything over 100 pages is a "crapshoot" as to whether or not it will publish.  So I split the 157 pages in half, and each published fine.  I used the aggregator to glue them back together and it worked.

    I have a few other questions, but I will post those in a new thread.

    Thanks for all the feedback.

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 27, 2011

    Start a new Blank project of the same screen dimensions, then copy over 10 slides at a time from your current project.  Be sure to save after ever copy/paste.

    At the end your new project will likely be a fraction of the size of the old one.

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    dcrouse10Author
    Inspiring
    July 27, 2011

    I already tried that.  It did reduce the file size, but most of the graphics did not copy.  This is a telephone training guide so there is a 3x4 array of image buttons for the numberpad and most of them did not copy on every slide, not to mention all the links they contain.

    Sometimes it will publish, but not a second time, or it does it the second time but not the first.  Sometimes not at all.  I cannot even pin it down to a specific page within the project.  With nothing but a blank slide remaining, its still 82MB in size so there is a lot of rubbish that needs to be cleaned out, and I feel that is where the problem must be, why sometimes it works and other times it doesn't...but how to clear it out?

    Is there a better copy command that will bring over all the images?  Is there an export/import command/format that could be used to clear out the attic while retaining as much of the content as possible?

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 27, 2011

    I'm afraid the fact that you have this hidden stuff in your file and cannot get rid of it makes me believe that maybe over time a certain amount of corruption may have crept in.  The fact that some of the items do not copy over from one project to another also makes my antennae twitch.  All objects should copy.

    I would be recreating the objects that did not copy.

    If you've cleaned out unused objects in the Library, tried copying slides to a new project, and cleared the project cache (Preferences > Clear Cache button) then that's about all you can do.

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