Fork or import project increase size

FBplus · February 5, 2020, 8:27am

I often duplicate my projects because most of them are very similar, with only minor adjustments.
but when I try to duplicate them by forking or importing,the size of the project increases:

Can anyone give me some advice?

LeXXik · February 5, 2020, 9:59am

I don’t think it would be possible to find the reason, without you giving us what changes you’ve made. A minor change for you, might be a major one for other.

FBplus · February 5, 2020, 10:07am

In fact the picture above is just a test,I changed nothing.
I wonder if others have the same problem? anyway thanks for your reply

Leonidas · February 5, 2020, 12:51pm

Something for @will @vaios to check out.

wturber · February 5, 2020, 6:36pm

Yes. This has been with us for quite a long time and is very annoying.

FBplus · February 8, 2020, 7:17am

I really hope they can fix it,since the backup of the projects can be painful,especially when they are large.

marcosecchi · June 8, 2020, 6:54pm

Hi,
I am experiencing the same weird issue (I have too the need to fork my own project).
Here’s a repro:

Create your own project and work on it
Fork the project from the same account
Notice that the forked project has a bloated size.

For instance, forking a 191.24Mb project, will result in a new one sized 405.10 (not sure if it’s somehow keeping file deletions).

Hope this helps

Leonidas · June 8, 2020, 7:07pm

Hi @marcosecchi,

I’ve observed this myself from time to time. Invoking @will @yaustar they will be able to take a look at this.

yaustar · June 8, 2020, 9:02pm

Yeeeeah, we are still looking being able to delete checkpoints and give better controls over user storage . For the moment, we have just been giving people more storage.

@marcosecchi: I’ve just bumped up your storage on your personal plan.

marcosecchi · June 9, 2020, 6:05am

@yaustar pretty amazing! Thank you!

Jianesis · June 9, 2020, 8:55am

Yeah I am encountering similar issue on my free plan.
136 MB fork to 400 MB

yaustar · June 9, 2020, 9:39am

Hey @Jianesis what is your PlayCanvas username?

Jianesis · June 10, 2020, 5:26am

Hey @yaustar, my username is DavidJian

yaustar · June 10, 2020, 9:01am

Bumped up your storage to 3GB

Jianesis · June 10, 2020, 9:42am

Wow thanks!

Ketan_ATA · February 26, 2022, 2:55am

Hi ,
As no. of projects are increasing fork becomes challenging to manage the storage space…
@Playcanvas Team Any update on this issue?

yaustar · February 28, 2022, 10:30am

Haven’t been prioritised unfortunately.

If you have old published builds, you can delete them to free up some space or you can DM me your account username and I can add more storage

Nathalie · March 5, 2024, 8:56am

Im currently experiencing this issue I’m supposed to transfer a project but from 900mb the forked project got bumped up to 1GB

Albertos · March 5, 2024, 1:22pm

This is something for the @playcanvas_team to take a look at.

will · March 5, 2024, 4:57pm

@Nathalie I’ve nudged your storage quota up a bit.