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iamian33

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Greetings.   (R2015)

I am seeing an increase in file sizes for no known reason.The issue came to light while I am updating our door library. I noticed that my file sizes were 1.5mb to 2.4mb ... extremely large for a family, in my opinion. 

I then opened a door family and purged unused ... 3 nested families were purged. When I saved the family, the size grew +/-250kb. I took another family and renamed one of the types, saved and the file size again grew. I've had some families double in size. 

I have tested this in my 2016 install, same thing.I have tested this on a clean 2015 install on a different workstation, same thing.

I recall that AutoCAD had a similar corruption with file sizes increasing 10 or 30 times in size. The DGNPurge cleaned this up. Is there a similar known corruption with Revit? Is there a fix?? I need 1, please.

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I have seen file sizes grow if you only do a save.  But a save as creates a new file that is typically the most compact.   This is especially true with projects.

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Thanks WW.

I've often used the SaveAs method to successfully compact projects but this has no affect on the file size for my families.  I have submitted a support request with Autodesk.  Hopefully they might offer something for this bloat.

Ian

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