Thank you for looking at my thread, and thanks in advance to any who may be able to help me.
We started a large project using 2005 ABS. This is an Electrical project, with Electric, Lighting, Fire Alarm, Access Control, Etc.. A few months ago we switched to 2008 MEP. We have noticed a problem with this project (that we haven't seen with any of our smaller projects). We have a Master Electrical file that contains our Electrical Circuit Database. All of our Model files X-Ref in this Master Electrical file. Our Model files were all about 300-700K when we first converted to 2008. Our ME file was about 1.5M. All that we have been doing to this project since a couple of months before the switch is Design Memo changes, add an outlet here, remove a light there. Nothing major. After a few weeks of working in 2008 we noticed that the drawings were taking a really long time to load and save. I looked into it and found that our Model files had all grown to 6-8M and our Master Electrical file was over 14M. After purging and auditing the ME file, I was able to get it down to 8M. Then when I would open and save a Model file it woudl shrink down to about 3M. I'm not sure what is causing this exponetial file growth, or what I can do to reduce the size. I can't wblock out the ME file because then we lose all of the Circuiting information. I can wblock out each of the model files and the will reduce their size back to about 500-700K. Until I open them once and save them. As soon as I save them, the file size grows back to about 3M.
Does anybody have any ideas?
Thanks