Huge documents when saved with "Screen Mode Normal" vs "Screen Mode Preview"

[ds_retouch]

I have a multipage document which, when it is in normal screen mode activated, saves a file of 60GB, and when I change the mode to preview, the result is a file of only 50MB. How is that possible? Thanks

[rob day]

There’s also a more in-depth discussion here;

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/file-size-is-too-big/td-p/9370587#10084949

[Stefan Rakete]

I have a bloated indesign document with the photoshop history / photoshop DocumentAncestors of a file, that is not even linked with the document anymore. I cannot use the script solution. Remove from IDML the only way to get rid of it? Removing all pageItems from the document does not solve the issue

[rob day]

Hi @Stefan Rakete , Have you tried a Save As? That works for me when the corrupted  links have been deleted: