Recommendations for reducing output size

Hello,
My RoboHelp 10 merged project has three SSL outputs: Windows, Linux and Mac versions. Each image in the project therefore has three versions. I have 194 topics, not a huge project, IMO. The generated output for the Windows version is 30.8 MB, which is 1,008 files, about 500 of which are image files, 27 folders. Theoretically, this means that all three versions when published have a total size on disk in the area of 90+ MB. My issue is that I work on the project locally, generate locally, publish to a remote source controlled location and then the network guys copy the published output to a web server. They want me to find out if I can reduce the size of the project so it takes as little time as possible for them to copy it. The copy is the slowest part of the whole thing, including my publish.
One thing I noticed after the last time I published is that every so often, RoboHelp seems to publish extraneous files/folders to the output that should not be there, as in when compared to a local generated version, they are not in the generated version (which clears the output folder each time). When I cleaned up those extra files after our last publish, the size on disk reduced from 45MB to 31MB. Should I just be watching out for the "extra" unwanted/unnecessary folders and deleting them or is there more I can do within my RoboHelp project to reduce the published size?
I've been using RoboHelp since RH8 but just jumped right into it without any training or help, apart from what I've received here (thank you all!) so although my projects look good and perform well, any help would be appreciated! At this point, it is taking so long that the network guys want me to look into switching to another tool that one of them knows. I've invested a lot of time and effort into RH, not really interested in another learning curve.
Thanks!
Helen

Hello again
Hmmm, well, after reading your reply, I'm thinking that you shouldn't get TOO excited just yet. We need to clarify some things.
For starters, you are saying you have different screen captures that you use for each of the outputs? If so, it would seem that maybe you DO actually need the different outputs. But before we can assume that to be true, we need to know more about the actual information being delivered.
For example, what does each of the screen captures show?
What I was thinking may have been overlooked with RoboHelp was that maybe you simply needed to present the SAME information to folks, but they might be using a Windows browser to view it, or a Linux browser to view it or a Mac browser to view it. And if that's the case, there isn't a need for specific images to each operating system.
Cheers... Rick

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