I have an 18 page website with several photo galleries that have thumbnails. I use an iMac with 4 GB memory. Even making minor changes has been extremely slow, and now I can’t save any changes at all. The Activity Monitor program shows that Free Memory goes down to almost 0 when I am saving. Even after I save the file, when I close the file it asks me again if I want to save.
It is frustrating to spend a long time making changes, testing them in the browser, apparently saving it and then the next time I open the file no changes have been saved at all. My iMac is maxed out at 4GB memory, which I would think should be enough. Is there a solution besides buying a new computer with 8 GB memory?
Sometime around 19/1/10 (at 02:27 -0500) Bryan J said:
Even making minor changes has been extremely slow, and now I can’t
save any changes at all. The Activity Monitor program shows that
Free Memory goes down to almost 0 when I am saving.
Have you been copying and pasting your images in rather than
importing them, by any chance? How big is your Freeway document?
Many thanks to DeltaDave and thatkeith for your responses. My file size is 674 MB. Most of the gallery pictures (about 250) have been copied and pasted rather than imported. I didn’t know that could cause a problem. Should I do some pages over by importing them? At this point that might not work because the changes may not get saved.
I could split up the file. However, most of the pages are linked together. If I delete some pages from one file and create a new file, would that mess up all the links?
My file size is 674 MB. Most of the gallery pictures (about 250) have been copied and pasted…
Yup! That is likely to be the culprit.
How have you structured your site - are all the pages on 1 level or are there subfolders ie
index.html
products.html
contact.html
etc.
Gallery
index.html
gallery1.html
etc
If so it will be easier to split up.
What I would suggest in the meantime is that you open your FW doc and select the pages and copy them out into a new FW doc.
You can do this by clicking on the page name in the site pane at the LHS Edit>Copy and in the new FW doc you have created click on the Site Folder icon and Edit>Paste
I would do this with your Gallery pages one at a time - then in the new document you could redo the galleries by importing rather than copy/pasting. Once you have rebuilt them you can paste them back into the original doc once you have deleted the original gallery pages.
Because you initially pasted your images in then all the picture info was included in the FW file - if you import then it is only a reference to the file that is included.
Sometime around 19/1/10 (at 14:00 -0500) Bryan J said:
Most of the gallery pictures (about 250) have been copied and pasted
rather than imported.
Heh. I thought so.
I didn’t know that could cause a problem. Should I do some pages
over by importing them?
YES. That will make a major difference. But don’t remake the pages
from scratch, just make sure you have the images saved to disk and
then import them straight over the top of the ones that are there
now. That should make a big, big improvement.
Importing is the way to go with pretty much all professional layout
apps. The reason is that linking to disk-based image files is far
more efficient method than asking the document to absorb the full
pixel data for each image.
