What are the possible reasons for a scene created from a “save-selected” box to be 40mb. ?
I also merged the box into a new maxfile… same result.

Any suggestions on how to clean up a file that is doing this?

patrick.reformstudios.com

Ok, the wonderful creator of RPManager , Grant, had a look at the file for me and has identified the problem. It seems that max has created thousands of mixers in themixer.numMaxMixers which is where all the data is hiding. What can I say, the support provided by RPManager is superb; an answer within a couple of hourse on a weekend! ( aDesk please take note :) )

The scene obviously no longer has any biped data so there must be some kind of bug that causes max not to delete the mixer data when I deleted the bipeds. Furthermore, the mixer data gets copied with any object that is merged out or save-selected.

This is a serious issue I think that I hope someone from aDesk can followup.

Grant provided this script which clears this rogue data.

for i in 1 to themixer.numMaxMixers() do
(
themixer.removeMaxMixer 1 true 1
)

patrick.reformstudios.com

Please note that there is no guarantee that anyone from AME will read this or the “bugs” thread - these are peer-to-peer forums.

You should report this via the Defect Report Submission Form.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Ok, will do… although I’ve submitted 50 reports of this problem this week; ie whenever I wanted to exit max! Will be interesting to see if I get a reply after sending so many bug reports in a short time!

Looks like this is an old and known bug! http://area.autodesk.com/for...file-size-is-huge/page-1/

Argh… what a killer.. I’’ve wasted over a days productivity trying to debug this… where do I send my bill!

patrick.reformstudios.com

Not to me…

Oh, and your post IS in the bugs thread, I moved my “warning” below it to (hopefully) ensure people read it before posting in there, so no need to keep reposting it :P

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Thanks Steve,
Sorry my browser was spaccing out and telling me to resubmit my post :)

I didn’t realise I needed to have the bug confirmed before posting on ghte “suspected” bug thread… perhaps it should be renamed the “confirmed bug masterthread” to avoid confusion :)

Bug reported and bill in the post…

Thanks again.
p.

patrick.reformstudios.com

The forum does that occasionally :rolleyes:

I left the post in there because of your external confirmation, If it hadn’t been for that it would have been removed (until confirmed). That thread gets spammed by everyone and his brother if we don’t keep a tight rein on it (hence my post in there).

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.