# Can having extra items in your library increase SWF size?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-having-extra-items-in-your-library-increase-swf-size/5485>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 12, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-having-extra-items-in-your-library-increase-swf-size/5485 "2002-09-12T21:06:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![videominds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b3f665/32.png) [@videominds](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/videominds)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-having-extra-items-in-your-library-increase-swf-size/5485/1 "2002-09-12T21:06:00Z")

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My SWF file just went from 200k to about 450k. I added some extra stuff to my library, could that be it?.?.?. I can work to make it smaller, but I was just wondering if that is the case. I don’t think adding stuff to the library could possibly make the exported file bigger… but who knows.

thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-having-extra-items-in-your-library-increase-swf-size/5485/2 "2002-09-12T21:12:22Z")

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If you don’t use it in the movie, it can’t / shouldn’t be included in the swf, so no size increase. Is it linked from the library (idnetifier/export for actionscript)?  
Try resaving the fla with another name and reexporting the swf, helps sometimes…