Compressing Exported .dae file size?

If you are trying to compress the file you can use 7zip. If your are trying to upload the mesh object you can read this article about reducing the level of detail

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Thanks but I plan to upload to SL and really don't want to demolish the original mesh. What I'd really like to know is how the creator managed to sqeeze 200 000 tries and 2 textures into a .dae file that's only 10mb large. Boggles my mind!

My next attempt will be to upload the parts individually, attatch them to the same body part and link them together, I'll export that again as a comparison to the original and reveal my findings here.