huge files in Max Design

[peterredman]

im running max design 12 + vray - 64bit. Files are growing in size without any apparent reason, simple scene with a selection of primitives, no Booleans or proxies -can grow to 250 meg in size. If I delete the entire scene, so there is no geometry in the file, the size still stays at the large size. Any ideas what is happening? puzzled... and frustrated.

[Scott Schroeder]

Check to see if you have track notes: http://arddigital.co.uk/remove-notetracks-from-3ds-max-scenes/

[peterredman]

tracknotes, sounds hideous. I looked at the link and its pointing me towards the dark area of maxscript. Is there a step by step way of getting through this - maxscript looks a bit scary and the link seems to presume some experience, which, I have not.

thanks for your help by the way.

[jackbird]

Many, many max versions ago, this was fixed with 'Remove Dead UVs' in the utilities panel.

[IfthikhauAn]

Topic already discussed here, check this thread for detailed information.

http://forums.cgarchitect.com/35748-max-file-grew-too-big-pls-help-9.html

[peterredman]

velvet elvis, looks good for a solution, but unless I can be steered through the thorny area of maxscript, then Im non the wiser. Can anyone offer a path through deleting tracknotes via maxscript or any other way, if it works - I have shed loads of files lost to the tracknote monster!

thanks for your help by the way!