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Reduce file size with purge unused

Reduce file size with purge unused

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Reduce file size with purge unused

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- [Instructor] In this video I want to talk about a pretty simple command Purge Unused. Now the use of this command got a very specific, and straightforward purpose. Any time your file starts to grow in size, and contains a lot of elements that are no longer being used by the project team you can use this tool to help clean things up. Now there's a few reasons why you might want to do that. The most obvious is to try and reduce file size within your projects, and sometimes folks become particularly concerned with the sizes of the projects, and there's lots of reasons for that. Takes longer to open. Takes longer to save. Takes longer to backup. Takes longer to transmit it to other folks. So if we can reduce the file size then we can assist with that, but I would caution you to not use file size as the only measure of project health. File size is just one of many things that can affect project health, and there are…

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