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After updating to 1.7.1 the using of this awesome program drives me crazy. Everything is so slowly now. Where is the announced speed improvement? The lagging of program is almost in seconds in every step

After updating to 1.7.1 the using of this awesome program drives me crazy. Everything is so slowly now. Where is the announced speed improvement? The lagging of program is almost in seconds in every step

This is big problem. Next thing caused by this bug is frequent crashing of the Publisher in my case (my project has 1,6GB now!).

I think it is not (mainly) about replacing an image, but the fact that Publisher won't show which image has to be re-linked in the alert window. See recipe below.
1. Create a folder with a few images.
2. Place / link them in Publisher. Save and close.
3. Rename folder.
4. Open document. The alert pops up, that some images are missing and if you want to re-link them. Do so ... perhaps your remembrance is better than mine? Which was the first-placed-image? If you fail, at least two images are linked wrong.

I first reported this problem back in September, 2018:
 

Thanks for your answer! I hope, they'll solve this issue asap. Because I hope they didn't developed Publisher as a program for making simply one site prints only. But the difference in sizes is really really big! I don't like waiting on next unexpected program crash during my work caused by size of source file. And next thing is, sending this huge source file to next person.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.
You will find that discussed many times in the Publisher forums. At this point, linking serves only to notify you when a file you depend on has changed and needs to be manually updated by you, or (with appropriate options set) to automatically update the changed files for you. It does not save file size, and (apparently, as far as we can tell) was not intended to save file size. Serif is aware of our concerns, but we do not know what they might be planning to do about this issue.