File size too big (41gb) suddenly

[Sandra23318665am2m]

URGENT!!! Good afternoon. 

I made a catalog in InDesign, it has 590 pages and several photos. 

I could open the editable without problems never noticed the gbs of the file. Until after probably a week of not touching the file, changes were requested and, to my surprise, now it does not open and has 41gb of file size.

At that time, a new license was requested in the company I work and all the programs were installed again, I don't know if it may have something to do with it. 

When I try to open the file, a progress bar appears and just keeps loading forever. However, after a couple hours, it did finish loading but then I got a error message saying: “InDesign is unable to open the file because you do not have sufficient disk space. Free up some space and try to open the file again”.

My question is, since I didn’t check the file size before, it had to abruptly go to 41gb, right? I never worked with a file so big, how would it even open with, let’s say, 30gb in this computer, even less with 41gb.

I would like to know if there is a solution to decrease the gbs without opening it or if I can open it how can I do to decrease the gbs of the file.

I really need help because making the whole catalog again is unthinkable for me. Thank you!!!

[Under S.]

I'm hoping someone at Adobe is reading this thread and sees how useful a simple "Exclude linked image metadata" checkbox in that export-to-pdf dialog would be. If InDesign can ignore PSD layers that aren't turned on, it can certainly do the same for useless metadata — if it wanted to — right?