# Publishing Problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/publishing-problem/206284>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 6, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/publishing-problem/206284 "2006-11-06T20:41:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![sean1983uk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@sean1983uk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sean1983uk)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/publishing-problem/206284/1 "2006-11-06T20:41:57Z")

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This is a strange one…

I have a .fla file and all that is in it is 4 empty movieclips.

theres an xml file with links to 5 images in a seperate foldar each image is 10kb

When i publish it from flash it produces a .swf file that is 17MB !!!

Why o why???

I published this this week and it was only 400KB. Sincve then laptop has crashed but all files were ok and saved.

Anyone have any ideas on why its now making a swf thats 17MB ?

Cheers