[chimerax-users] session file sizes

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Melissa,

Molecular surfaces make session files very large because they save all the surface triangles.  Did you have a molecular surface in that large session?  I have considered not saving the molecular surfaces and just recomputing them although that will make restoring the session slower as it tries to recompute the surface.

	Tom


> On Jul 7, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Melissa Jurica <mjurica at ucsc.edu> wrote:
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> What deterimines the file size of saved ChimeraX sessions (.csx files)?  I saved a session of one structure (6Y5q) at 4 MB, and another structure  (6y50) at 2.6 MB.  However, when I saved a session with both structures open, it was a whopping 120.6 MB.  Is there a way to reduce that file size?
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