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May 12th 2016, 04:17 PM
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"That sounds weird. Are you saying that if you create new map screens in Freedinkedit, the map file gets a lot bigger than if you edit an existing map that has a similar number of screens?"

That's correct. Touching a purple (unused) square makes the file grow by several megabytes. Before I realized this happens, I ended up with a file that was over 200 Gigabytes at one point.

When I made Echoes, I used the map from SOB. This was a full map with no unused screens. It was nice because I didn't have to worry about touching a purple square making the file bigger. I don't know if this is mainly a Linux issue or what, but it is an unfortunate bug in FreeDinkEdit. It wasn't a one-time thing either. It will happen every time I would start a new square. It's far better to have unused screens than to risk a giant file.