Slow file opening

[barnes2000]

Not too long ago I had imported a couple of JPEGs that I incorporated into my drawing. I had them in viewports that were part of my sheet layers. Since then, I have deleted the JPEGs from the drawing. They don't even show in the resource browser, which is good. I don't want them in the drawing anymore. My problem is that every time I open this file now, I get a message saying "Unable to locate these JPEG files..." and do I want to manually locate them. If I deleted the JPEGs, why does it still look for them upon opening the file? How can I remove them permantly? Please help.

Thank You.

[Art V]

Scott,

Did you do a "cleanup" of the drawing to clean up non-used images? (Edit menu>Cleanup or something like that. I'm using the Dutch version so I'm guessing for the actual command name in English)

It looks to me that somehow the reference to the JPEGs is still in the document and maybe a cleanup will fix that.

[Ray Libby]

It's worth a try, Tools menu>Purge Unused Objects... check Images. I always do a save as when I purge, so I have a backup of the file.

[gmm18]

Check to see if it is still a 'referenced file.'

In the navigation pallette, the tab on the far right shows

referenced files, just delete it it is showing up in there.

[barnes2000]

The Purge didn't work. I'll check the reference files in the morning. Thanks.

[barnes2000]

Good news...It was a broken reference file. I deleted it, and that part is good now.

However, this particular file is taking nearly five minutes to load. It's about 40MB in size. Is this normal?