Large file with hidden elements

[vandersteven]

I'm running Autocad 2008. I noticed today a dwg file of a small building I am working on jumped from 7mb to well over 20mb.

I tried doing a purge, I even downloaded and used cleanupscales, but without any luck.

I managed to fix the issue by copying each object and moving it over to a new blank sheet now the file size is only 1mb, but I want to know what those hidden objects/elements are that are eating up all that memory so I can fix it if it happens again.

I still have the 7mb file and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in looking at it to see the problem. I have scanned is for viruses with avast and avg and nothing has shown up.

[rkmcswain]

I still have the 7mb file and I was wondering if anyone would be interested in looking at it to see the problem. I have scanned is for viruses with avast and avg and nothing has shown up.

Send it over... I'll take a look.

[vandersteven]

I've checked the file for viruses with AVG and Avast. It should be clean.

[rkmcswain]

There were a few regapps (29), and a good number of scale list entries (335) - getting rid of just that got it down to 2.7MB - then I ran the "overkill" command and it found + deleted something like 90,000 items - and that got it down to 1.2MB

[vandersteven]

Thank you so much. I'm fairly new to Autocad. I've never heard of the Overkill command.

[arshiel88]

Finally, saving it to 2010 format takes it down to 514KB.