Don't Let Your GDoc Get Too Old!

I was trying to put a photo into one of our Recording Notes GDoc that is used for one of our podcasts today and it wouldn't play ball. Just shoved a placeholder in. I took it to Gemini and (eventually) it came out that the GDoc was probably first made about 10 years ago. Which was the problem. In case anyone is interested in the technicalities, here they are...

"Google Docs tracks every single edit, deletion and typing change in its Version History. When a document is reused, wiped and overwritten repeatedly over years - especially one created around 2016 - the document's hidden version history database becomes enormous. Eventually, the document metadata becomes so bloated that Google Docs struggles to allocate temporary memory for uploading and processing new media assets, causing new images to instantly crash into that warning triangle placeholder. Starting fresh with a clean document will solve this completely and make the document load much faster for both of you."