How to 'purge' unneeded Tool Palette Images

[dtiemeyer]

So I have about 180 tool palettes all with about 20 images each, therefore I should have about 3,600 images in the the .\Tool Palettes\Images folder. Because of versions/upgrades/copy/paste/etc. I actually have about 10,000 images in that folder, and I'm feeling some serious lag-time with tool palettes, and I'm wondering if the Images might be causing it.  

Does anybody know how to 'purge' images that are no longer referenced by the .\Tool Palettes  x.ATC files ?

[dtiemeyer · Accepted solution]

actually, I just found the migration tools will do this

[Anonymous]

Hi, can you please explain how you used migration tools to fix this? My tool palette image folder is getting rather bloated. Does Autocad have a method to determine if certain image files become disassociated from any current tools?

[dtiemeyer]

I havent done it in a few years so the details are a little sketchy in my memory, but the basic process wss this:

1. Ensure the profile with all the desired tool palettes is the active profile when you close AutoCAD
2. Use the migration tools to migrate the Profile to the new release
3. Since the tool palettes get migrated as part of the profile, it seemed to read all the palettes and only copy the images that were referenced by the palettes, not the entire (bloated) images folder of your current version of AutoCAD.