Size issue

[Acorn]

Hi Acorn, i have 2 tabs open at the mment but have nly ever used the main one there`s 28 of pages in that tab i have no idea how many images - when i upload its set to "only updated pages" As for the images themselves i just added them resized them and uploaded

The Documents Tabs may not be relevant to your time issues.

There are some things we can assist in the design file and the others are by you on your machine.

Machine first.
Are you running the 64-bit Xara Desktop application or an earlier 32-bit?

If 32-bit then your computer memory is constrained.
If 64-bit and you have only 8GB RAM then you need to close as many other applications as possible. The second Document Tab (Coundowns) could be saved and closed but this will only help if the file is also very large.
You can check through Control Panel > System and Security > Task Manager: Memory column against your Desktop application.


I have to assume your "only updated pages" is a mis-remembering of Web Properties > Publish Settings > Fast Publish (Only changed files).

Have you used Utilities > Optimise all images > Settings and, changed the resolution and pressed the Optimise button? This tunes you images to be adequate for web viewing.
Ensure you have your master images already in a safe area.

You can test the effectiveness of the above by Exporting to a local folder and checking the overall size of the ../index_htm_files/ folder before and after.

Acorn

[Jack Terrier]

If i do this resize thing now will affect the original photos
I have also imported the file you suggested and it`s quite a big one 385mb

[Acorn]

If i do this resize thing now will affect the original photos

Ensure you have your master images already in a safe area.

Acorn

[Jack Terrier]

I dodnt see this post, all images have anon copyrighted version in different folders if i do thast process and upload it will it replace the lager one i know these are daft question i just dont wanna bugger the whole thing up

[Acorn]

When you "get" an image from a folder or on-line, you are only copying it into the Xara design. Any compression occurs for the images used and doesn't affect the originals.
Some people have deleted originals thinking they were safely store in the Xara design.

If worried copy, an original to a new place and create a test Xara design file where you drag it onto the MouseOff Layer, then compress it and check the copy hasn't been affected.
In other words, experiment until you can explain to yourself what you have done.

I have to caveat what I say as I don't know how or what you currently do.

Acorn

[Jack Terrier]

\ok i will do that and see how it goes
Thanks for your help it`s appreciated

[Jack Terrier]

Sorry it`s been a week, busy in work and such anyway i have done the optomize thing and it did 30 of the photos now it says 0 images optomised maybe thats all that needed doing = I have also had a nother proper look at the file that i downloaed index_html_files and they are all pretty small in size i think its the sheer number of the over 2000 images