iPad Designer: pasted images, saved, images gone!

[VectorCat]

I an existing illustration, size appx 50mb, I pasted 7-10 images to use as reference. I saved this illustration before closing it. This morning, I began to work on the same illustration. Noticed the file size had shot up to 90 mb - made sense because of the pasted images.

But, those images are nowhere to be found! Pasting those reference images was the last thing I did last night, and it has worked previously in that other pasted images are still there. Note: pasted from the clip board, and not placed using the Place Image menu item.

So, two questions:

1. Is it a good practice to paste raster images from the clipboard into an open Designer document, and will they stay there after saving, and 
2. Are the images actually gone? All layers checked, they appear actually gone, yet the file size is still nearly twice what it was prior to said graphics-pasting

 

Thank you!

[carl123]

If you have Publisher (Desktop) you can look in Resource Manager to see if the images exist in your document

Alternatively, upload the document so others can check it for you