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Indesign using 40gb of harddrive space to export .jpg's

Community Beginner ,
Oct 21, 2024 Oct 21, 2024

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Does anyone else have an issue of InDesign eating up LARGE amounts of harddrive space? It ate 40GB+ of my harddrive space when I exported .jpg's today. Is there a way to decrease the amount InDesign takes up while I'm working on a document?

 

This is the description of the InDesign file I exported .jpg's from. I have a customer's high-resolution artwork for many 72"x24" prints. I made a contact sheet in InDesign (putting 6 prints on a 10"x8" page; total of 12 pages). It's all links to the original art files. I tried to export all InDesign pages to .jpg at high quality and 275dpi (each .jpg is ~2MB). InDesign ran out of disk space 3/4 of the way through. The only way for me to reclaim the disk space was to close InDesign. Then I could reopen the file and export the rest of the pages, only to fill up my disk space again.

 

Anyone else experience this? How do you deal with it? Any tips? 

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Community Expert , Oct 21, 2024 Oct 21, 2024

Hey

 

From experience - InDesign export to JPEG is not great and the general better way is::

Export to PDF and then convert in Photoshop
Converting the InDesign to PDF then converting it to a JPEG in Photoshop can sometimes be more manageable and less resource-intensive.

 

You can set up a photoshop action to suit your needs.

 

 

If you want to keep working with InDesign that's no issue.

 

First thing I'd check is InDesign's Temporary Files
InDesign I think might be creating temporary files while

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Hey

 

From experience - InDesign export to JPEG is not great and the general better way is::

Export to PDF and then convert in Photoshop
Converting the InDesign to PDF then converting it to a JPEG in Photoshop can sometimes be more manageable and less resource-intensive.

 

You can set up a photoshop action to suit your needs.

 

 

If you want to keep working with InDesign that's no issue.

 

First thing I'd check is InDesign's Temporary Files
InDesign I think might be creating temporary files while exporting.

These can build up and take up space, particularly large files/high-res artwork.

You could try checking the Temp Files as you are working on the file, usually, these temp files should automatically removed when you close InDesign, but maybe this not happening for you.

 

To check this you could try close and reopen InDesign which may free up disk space as you have noticed I believe.

It’s also a good habit to manually check and clear temp files if they linger after a session:

On macOS, temp files are usually stored in /private/var/folders/.
On Windows, look in the %temp% folder.

(these might be hidden folders)


For a test you could Lower the DPI or Quality - and test your files
150dpi or 200dpi then if you're happy with them you could then export the final files at high quality once they’ve confirmed everything is as expected.

 

Optimise Linked Files
Since the original artwork is high-resolution, consider whether downsizing the resolution of the linked files, for the purpose of working and exporting within InDesign, might reduce the strain on the hard drive. If they are working with unnecessarily large files, that could potentially take up additional space.

 

This would involved making a duplicate copy  of your images and resampling them before putting them in InDesign - which is going to take up more disk space.

 

Check for Available Disk Space
It sounds like the drive is running low on space during export. They can check how much free space is available on their hard drive and try freeing up additional space. A minimum of 50-100GB is recommended for large projects.

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Oct 22, 2024 Oct 22, 2024

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I have a customer's high-resolution artwork for many 72"x24" prints. I made a contact sheet in InDesign (putting 6 prints on a 10"x8" page; total of 12 pages)

 

Hi @Amy27803658kw4g , What are the pixel dimensions of the linked artwork, and what are your hardware specs? You are asking InDesign to downsample 72 very large image files, so it wouldn't be surprising that ID would run out of memory and fall back to the disk for virtual memory. Unfortunately InDesign doesn't allow you to set scratch disk volumes the way Photoshop does, so it always uses the startup drive when you run out of RAM. If you need to use InDesign for this kind of work you will need to free up space on your startup drive.

 

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Oct 22, 2024 Oct 22, 2024

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@Amy27803658kw4g

 

What platform - Mac or PC? 

 

Have you updated / installed ID 2025 / v.20?

 

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Windows 11 Enterprise, Indesign 19.0.1 (didn't update yet)

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Windows 11 Enterprise, Indesign 19.0.1 (didn't update yet)


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Last minor version for 19 is 19.5 

 

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@Amy27803658kw4g

 

Create Action in Photoshop, that will downsample your original JPEG files and place those in the InDesign.

 

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Thank you. Down sizing the linked artwork sounds like the best solution. Especially since I didn't need the artwork to be high-resolution in this situation.

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If you have a lot of jobs like this - requiring any kind of mundane clicking - I would suggest my ID-Tasker tool - it's not free but doing things like this would be a breeze.

 

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