Memory Usage

[kitch1967]

I have created a 10 page site, with about 5 photo pages. Now when i load my saved site the program is using 1.5GB of main memory, and my saved file is 102MB. This is crazy, my previous FrontPage site, with twice as many pages was only 12MB. When i go to edit anything, or preview, or publish, i am getting "Out of Memory" errors.
I hope someone can help because i have re-did my whole site with Web Designer and now am stuck in limbo because i can't go any farther with it. Xara told me to send them the file but i can't even do that because the file is too large and their mail server rejected it!

[steve.ledger]

Welcome to the TG Foums.

Yes this doesn't seem right at all.
You say 5 photo pages, but how many 'photos' in all?

Maybe you can save 1 photo page as a separate .web file and email that to Xara and also attach it here for some one to take a look at?

[Scotty]

Hi,
Well I can't see any one creating a page that large and having any one stay to see it!
Not trying to offend ya in any way. But I am surprised in even uploaded.
Jim

[kitch1967]

The page isn't that large...the whole site is.
Maybe i should have saved each page separately?

[Ross Macintosh]

Are you saying your ten-page site takes up 1.5gb of space on the server? Please check and confirm.

As sledger asks - do the pages have lots and lots of photos on them? The 102mb .web file seems to suggest you've imported lots of very high resolution photos into the document. What are the typical file sizes of the photos you were importing? 65kb or 5mb each?

Regards, Ross

[Charles Moir]

Five pictures being 100 Mbytes doesn't sound right at all. It's easy to work out what it should be in total. Just add up the sizes of all your JPEGs and add a small bit for the text (a few tens of K), and that's how larger your .web file will be.

If you're loading huge RAW, PNG or TIFF files say, then yes 100Mbyts is easy to obtain - not many pictures of 25Mbytes each say are required to make 100M or more.

If you are importing RAW images or some other extremely large uncompressed format, then you're advised to use the Optimize Photo function which compresses and down-converts them to more reasonable resolution and JPEG compresses them. Check out he Photo handling chapter in the manual, I think it's covered in there.