On May 11, 2:03 am, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2011 at 07:12AM -0700, ObsessiveMathsFreak wrote: > > This is actually a huge problem for me as I need to transfer sage > > notebooks between different computers. Some individual sws files I > > have are upwards of 60MB each! > > > I have often found that the best way to deal with this is to go into > > the "Edit" section--at the top of the worksheet--and then copy and > > paste the code only into a new worksheet. This text is often very > > small and can be emailed without difficulty. > > > Another option is to manually delete all plots etc as mentioned above. > > Unfortunately, this cannot be done automatically. If "Delete all > > Output" is selected from the "Action" tab of the worksheet, and the > > file is saved, the output is not actually deleted, and is instead > > retained. > > It sounds like we need a ".sws slimmer" tool that takes a worksheet and > "slims" it down by deleting all the extra stuff that's causing your > files to be over 60 megabytes. > > Of course, it would be difficult/impossible to tell automatically what > bits of data are necessary, so perhaps we could have a tool that > eliminates everything that's obviously extraneous, and also a "delete > everything but the text of cells" function that achieves what you > describe above.
I have found the 'not deleted' "feature" very annoying. It looks fine for the current session, but if you save and then reopen the worksheet, many plots esp. 3d ones are still there. What does the delete output function even call, and is that just broken? - kcrisman -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
