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C1016 - Why does my system hang when I save and compact or package? by - Joseph Ganci The more icons, and
the more connections between your icons, the longer it takes to update backpointers.
If you have a lot of icons, this can take a LONG time. Notice I said number
of icons and not size of file. If for instance you imported 5 huge graphics
of 10 megs each (I know, I know...) and you only have those 5 icons in your
file, it'll finish saving and compacting in no time. If you have no media
at all but 10,000 icons that are all very interconnected, it can take a
long time. Interconnectedness happens on many levels. For instance, when
you use the Erase icon, when you have navigate icons, when you have maps
and frameworks and decisions, and well, just about everything! Every icon
has a relationship to another icon in the file, even if it's just to say,
"I follow you on the flowline." When you save and compact, Authorware has
to reestablish the links between everything. Same during packaging. That
last step can be a killer. I suggest you go away for a few hours, maybe
overnight, and let it finish. Ctrl-Alt-Del will always report that Authorware
is not responding since it's too busy to answer the Windows query. Hope
this helps. |