Garbage Collection/Old Data in stack

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 14:35:40 EST 2015


On 17/01/15 21:11, Ralph DiMola wrote:
> I was making a stub stack. I started with my original stack and deleted all
> the cards except 1. The resulting stack is 3MB. I then deleted all the
> scripts and objects on the remaining card and still 3MB. I Delete all the
> scripts from the stack and still 3MB. I opened that stack in a text editor
> and found all sorts of images and custom properties for cards that no longer
> exist.
>
> How can I clean up this stack? Are there other orphans in my main stack and
> other stacks that I don't know about? Am I missing something here or is
> there some stack corruption that has creeped in over time?
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
>

Frankly, I don't know.

I would do this:

Make a NEW stack with one card and copy all the stuff from the card you 
wish to preserve in
the other stack onto it . . .

Primitive, but it would work.

Richmond.




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