piotrgreg Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 hi guys, I need urgent help the max file started to behave in an unexpected way - interrupts while saving, any loading lasts years; it is file linked with acad data from the beginning; I discovered a very strange thing - the max file is 152 MB !!! which is impossible cause yesterday it was about 1Mb; anyway I decreased any possible faces, checked the summeary info step by step; etc. it is still huge and Im afraid it will interrupt again with no possibility of saving data does any of You had this problem ever? thx Piotr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archmage Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 I recently had similar problems but i don't know if it is the same as yours. I was unable to render a shopping centre i made because of my system ran out of recources. After cleaning up my whole file and simplifying the whole scene I found out that it was actually my bitmaps that were drawing almost all my recources. I couldn't believe it but after i scaled down my bitmaps and reduced their quality for smaller files my scene rendered fine. Even with 600 000 polys. Dont know if that helps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piotrgreg Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 thx for reply Archmage, I have checked all the bit maps - they're all small enough ( max 40k) by now max seems stable but the file is still laaarge any other ideas? thx Piotr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 did you save the file with a radiosity solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 there is a thread somewhere on this board about a command to type in that fix's this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piotrgreg Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 Dibbers, no radiosity, I just ve been doing some vray experiments Crazy.. I m going to look for this file right now thx for reply Piotr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 press F11 (Maxscript listener) and type: gc() followed by an ENTER save your file again... and it should now be smaller... (I hope) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 press F11 (Maxscript listener) and type: gc() followed by an ENTER save your file again... and it should now be smaller... (I hope) If that doesn't work, open and close the xref dialogs from the Files menu, then do gc(). I think gc just clears the undo buffer and any leftover maxscript garbage. It doesn't matter whether you are using xrefs or not. Why can't they fix this bug? The only workaround for it is so arcane and illogical that no average user would be able to figure it out, much less find the fix if they happen to be using VIZ 2005. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffin Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 From Discreet Support: Click Here I really hope they fix this. It's very irritating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piotrgreg Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 yes I heard of gc() - Ted Boardman mentioned that method in one of his tutorials ( I really appreciate TB) I opened F11 ( u can enter there either by the small maxscript window low/left corner) I made cg() followed by enter I made cg() itself and the file become bigger shall I change the software? or ? any other idea? thx all for interest Piotr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piotrgreg Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 by now I merged bad file into a new one - works but takes time ( I followed some memer's advice ( crazy homeless led me to check threads on this board) Piotr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 yes I heard of gc() - Ted Boardman mentioned that method in one of his tutorials ( I really appreciate TB) I opened F11 ( u can enter there either by the small maxscript window low/left corner) I made cg() followed by enter I made cg() itself and the file become bigger shall I change the software? or ? any other idea? thx all for interest Piotr My apologies if language is an issue here, but did you even read my post? Open and close each of the xref dialogs in the Files menu. Then type gc() in the maxscript listener window. Then save your file. It will be the correct size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piotrgreg Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 Fran, I opened n closed file n object dialog boxes from the file menu I typed gc() the strange nr on the maxscript window appeared: 6247048 I saved file still 152 MB so, I gone where? : to the help file, where, under "troubleshooting" they just lead you to merge corrupted file:) and , above all, they insist on keeping backups Piotr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Posted March 17, 2005 Share Posted March 17, 2005 Fran, I opened n closed file n object dialog boxes from the file menu I typed gc() the strange nr on the maxscript window appeared: 6247048 I saved file still 152 MB so, I gone where? : to the help file, where, under "troubleshooting" they just lead you to merge corrupted file:) and , above all, they insist on keeping backups Piotr Apologies Piotr. This must be a new problem with max 7. I've never had the other method fail to solve the max 6 file bloat problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piotrgreg Posted March 17, 2005 Author Share Posted March 17, 2005 Fran. I can see u r far more involved in the cad.max world than myself than you for being helpful even if the methot didnt work appreciate hope we'll be in touch Piotr p.s. merge, save, merge, backup, save Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olhorobot Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 hi! i have the same problem now in 3d max design 2009. after xrefed objects from other scenes the file gets bigger and bigger. Now if i merge into a new empty scene, from the large file(170Mb), lets say, a camera , and i save it the new scene it gets 170mb of file size =| with only a camera! anybody is aware of how to solve this? thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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