# Newbie question on fla file size

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**Created:** [March 21, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-question-on-fla-file-size/219973 "2007-03-21T16:55:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![kowalsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/50afbb/32.png) [@kowalsky](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kowalsky)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/newbie-question-on-fla-file-size/219973/1 "2007-03-21T16:55:16Z")

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hi all,  
i am very new to FLASH technology and i have lots of questions … however, at the time i really try to understand how the size of a fla file stays the same after i remove almost everything from it.

More details: i am putting together a series of slides, each slide is a flash document (fla file). Every time I’m done with one slide I am getting to the next one by keeping what is common to the previous and next slide and start from there. I was expecting Flash 8 to keep some overhead but it seems from one slide to the other i am adding size all the time.  
I noticed that the layer number has incremented from one file to the next, but somehow I guess it keeps all the information even if i don’t see it.

Is there a way to purge all info in a file or do i have to create a template with the common elements, and so on …

thanks,  
kowalsky