Snippets and Project Size

Hello,
Does anyone know if reusing text in snippets reduces the
project size after it has been generated?
M.S

That depends on the amount of text in the snippet. Don't
forget to consider the additional characters required for the
various tags used by snippets in the HTML. However I think if you
are worried about the size of your output you have far bigger
problems. The size of a reduction / increase is utterly
negligible.

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Maximum project size exceeded

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why not store each folder (from your hd) as a project and put those within blue folders ...
this way, clicking on a higher level folder will show all contents of all projects within it ...

Setting up the correct custom project size size for keynote presentation in FCP 7 or motion?

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The requester wants more than 1 Site Collection for Project Sites and he wants more than 1 content database for each site collection. Neither of which apparently SharePoint can do. However,
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Eric S.
Eric S.

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