The solution, unfortunately, isn't one you can do at runtime, unless you 
just keep a blank template cast that you reuse.

When you "delete" a castmember, you're not really removing all the space, 
instead, Director keeps the space allocated and just marks it as 
"unused".  This is to make saving faster.  Presumably this was added at one 
point if people complained saving took too long.

So, in Director, if you want to truly reclaim the space, you would use the 
"save and compact" command.  Or, use "Save As" to make a new 
file.  Otherwise it just marks the space as unused but doesn't really free 
it up.

What you might also try is saving it to a DIFFERENT name, then renaming it 
back after deleting the original.  This might have the same effect as "save 
as" although I haven't tried it personally.

- Tab

At 07:46 PM 9/25/02, brian wrote:
>I am running into memory issue, perhaps someone can explain why. I am
>loading MP3s during runtime into an external cast. When the application
>shuts down, it erases all the cast members and saves the cast. The problem
>is that the cast, when I go to get Info, on a mac, still shows the cast as
>being, in this case 10 MB, even though nothing resides in it.
>
>Has anyone had this problem, and what is the solution.
>
>B

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