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All my free disk space is consuming by Affinity Publisher.

Why is that?

In less than 1h more than 50Gb was consumed by it. I added no more images or so, just added hyperlinks

I'm using photos [trying to look if I can create interactive PDFs for ePapers]

 

Now I can't even save my work because now I have only 4Gb free space [my affpub extension consumes now 500Mb, don't know exactly why so much]

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4 hours ago, Astin said:

All my free disk space is consuming by Affinity Publisher.

Why is that?

In less than 1h more than 50Gb was consumed by it. I added no more images or so, just added hyperlinks

I'm using photos [trying to look if I can create interactive PDFs for ePapers]

 

Now I can't even save my work because now I have only 4Gb free space [my affpub extension consumes now 500Mb, don't know exactly why so much]

Do you have File > Save History with Document turned on? If so turn that off.

Are you embedding your images or are they linked? Check the Resource Manager.

Good luck

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No I don't. The problem more of the time appears when I'm trying to save the document [ocazionally when I'm exporting to PDF]

LE: Images are embedded

The document has @2000 pages

 

 

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57 minutes ago, Astin said:

Images are embedded

That should make your file much larger than if they were Linked.

I see you also have many copies of each of those Embedded files. I'm not sure what overall effect that will have on the file size.

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The images we can see in the screenshot aren't especially large but you have so many copies embedded. For example:

  • The largest image is Daily Notes-Journal.pdf at 587KB but with 30 copies that is 15MB
  • Home.png is only 3.4KB, it's tiny, but there are 1904 copies so it's taking up 6MB - this image should also be on a master page instead of duplicated on every page

Click in the list of images, select all (Ctrl+A) and click the Make Linked button. Then choose File > Save As and see how big the file is.

But regardless, you should also investigate using master pages for images that are used on many pages.

Good luck.

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