Vaccum defs worked, reduced from 55mb to 9mb, thanks everyone.

So if you delete everything from your canvas that you can see and then save the file to disk and find that the supposedly empty file Is 50MB it should be easy to see where that is coming from. This is what is happening, how do i read this file, am i able to read it and delete the unfreed memory whil...

No saving, quitting and coming back in doesn't do anything. When i do this i can no longer undo but the memory is still being consumed.

Im using windows 8 with as far as i know using the latest inkscape version. So say i add an item to my canvas or whatever you call it, the item is 5mb, and i then go and delete that item. The item is gone but my file size is still 5mb. Ive pasting in images, taking pictures and then deleting and mod...