# \[Express\] Can't save changes to website

**URL:** <https://discourse.softpress.com/t/express-cant-save-changes-to-website/6646>\
**Category:** Freeway\
**Created:** [January 19, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/express-cant-save-changes-to-website/6646 "2010-01-19T07:27:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bryan\_J](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@Bryan\_J](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Bryan_J)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/express-cant-save-changes-to-website/6646/1 "2010-01-19T07:27:31Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![David\_McCallum](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@David\_McCallum](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/David_McCallum)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/express-cant-save-changes-to-website/6646/2 "2010-01-19T15:15:09Z")

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What is the file size of the actual FW doc - select yourfile.freeway and Get Info. And how are your Galleries inserted/created.

4Gb of Ram should be plenty but if your FW doc is too big it may be time to split it!

David

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**Author:** ![Keith\_Martin](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/7c8e57/32.png) [@Keith\_Martin](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Keith_Martin)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/express-cant-save-changes-to-website/6646/3 "2010-01-19T16:43:31Z")

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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?

k

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**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/express-cant-save-changes-to-website/6646/4 "2010-01-19T19:00:43Z")

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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?

Bryan

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**Author:** ![David\_McCallum](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@David\_McCallum](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/David_McCallum)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/express-cant-save-changes-to-website/6646/5 "2010-01-19T19:25:36Z")

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> 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

```auto
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.

David

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**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/express-cant-save-changes-to-website/6646/6 "2010-01-19T22:34:07Z")

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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.

k

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