# Having problems with the file size of my animation

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**Created:** [September 22, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/having-problems-with-the-file-size-of-my-animation/163444 "2005-09-22T14:11:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/having-problems-with-the-file-size-of-my-animation/163444/1 "2005-09-22T14:11:40Z")

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Ok ive started making some decent length animations with flash, but the filesize of them always seems to be a problem. I made the first, and it was around 2.8mb, not horrendesly big, but still a little oversized for what it was i think. Well ive just finished the 2nd, and its 5.5mb!!!

I dont know what the problem is, as ive compressed all the sound files and in the size report it says they are only taking up a few kbs each… Is the aniamtion taking up all this space??? Its just really annoying, because the animation isnt really that bad, but the ffile size is way too big. ☹

Can anyone recommend anything that will make the .swf smaller?