On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at 02:28 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote:
Has anyone found a way to delete all those unwanted shapes that build up in the shape library of a file?
I find that I can't delete them as they are "in use" even though I have reduced the file to one stave with an empty bar. I can see that if they are attached to another expression (such as a rall., cresc., etc) they will still be "in use" but I have deleted all those references also. I find the worst offenders are shapes that I've set up and then edited or tweaked to get just right for a template. Each time I alter the shape it stores the old version in the library and then can't be deleted as it is part of the original design.
They do tend to bloat out the file size. Some files can go into hundreds (and I've seen thousands) of very similar but ever-so-slightly different shapes!
Actually, it's very likely that they are exact copies. Every time you place a shape expression via a metatool, it copies the shape in the Shape Designer. This is so that you can modify the size and shape of a metatool-entered shape without changing the size and shape of every other instance.
That said, I'm not sure exactly how to get rid of the duplicates... except to enter shape expressions via the dialog box instead of metatools.
-- Brad Beyenhof [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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