# Serializing Window takes over a minute

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/serializing-window-takes-over-a-minute/4056>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 23, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/serializing-window-takes-over-a-minute/4056 "2012-02-23T22:26:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/serializing-window-takes-over-a-minute/4056/1 "2012-02-23T22:26:38Z")

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Can you explain why the attached window takes over a minute to serialize? same thing happened when I exported to attach to this post. I do not understand what is making the file so big at 1.8 MB.

Thank you,  
[POV.vwin](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/199b8fce18cd64285900cf2e7c01f60260d670e9.vwin) (1.8 MB)

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/serializing-window-takes-over-a-minute/4056/2 "2012-02-24T00:06:20Z")

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I bet you have a lot of data in a dataset. Go through and remove any data from datasets and re-save the window.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/serializing-window-takes-over-a-minute/4056/3 "2012-02-24T00:42:25Z")

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I tried that with the communication to the gateway turned off before I posted the attachment in my original post. It doesn’t seem like I have all that many components of the window either.

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/serializing-window-takes-over-a-minute/4056/4 "2012-02-24T00:50:23Z")

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Ok, we will take a look.

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/serializing-window-takes-over-a-minute/4056/5 "2012-05-08T18:14:54Z")

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Ok the deal with this window is that the binding on the Table’s ‘data’ property his a gigantic dataset in it.

You can’t see this dataset (The table’s actual data property is small) but the binding is holding onto the last value it saw. If you simply open the binding config for Table.data while the designer traffic is off and hit OK, it’ll clear this out and the window will serialize fast again.