Ok, I may have found the problem. My drawing is 37 MB large!!! I am not sure how that happened and now cant figure out how to resize it. IT is to scale, and not necisarily "large" but the "information" is way to large. How to resize, but keep it to scale? Any ideas?

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Thanks for the welcome!!!! And pointer. Ok, to trouble shoot, I have saved my drawing, opened a new empty page and then imported my " slow" drawing THEN deleted the whole drawing and the start fresh, but it still reacts super slow and unresponsive. BUT when i dont import that partucular dr...

Ok...SO i freaking love Inkscape, I have been using it for years!! Windows, Mac, and all is been great!!! Until the other day, after spending about 10 hours on a line drawing, it has stalled out. Everytime I move a node, or zoom, close file, import,...basically anything, its reaction time is like 30...