I'm working on a certain executable to which I add additional binary files from time to time.A few hours ago, I added an additional binary file to the idb I was working on like this:The additional binary file is about 60k in size.When I next pressed ctrl+W, it took a long while for IDA to save, and then I noticed the .idb file grew to 16GB in size. It couldn't have been more than a few megabytes before that.I tried editing the sections and deleting the one I just added and re-saving but it doesn't seem to change anything.I have no backup.What can I do at this point?edit:I forgot to mention, when I try to close and tell IDA to collect garbage, it still saves 16GB worth of idb file. Telling it to deflate the database causes the resulting idb file to be 16 -MB- but when I open it again it inflates to 16GB. Specifically, the .id1 file is the heavy one.
.idb file suddenly grew to 16GB in size
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