LoadAssetAtPath Memory + 2018.1

Hi, we're running into an old issue where LoadAssetAtPath is called on a lot of prefabs in our project.
As the number of prefabs is pretty huge, memory has now become an issue.

We only need to know some info on the prefab so we can process things later..i.e. find out + extract some info if a component is on it and so on.

As for clearing up, we've tried all the usual

EditorUtility.UnloadUnusedAssetsImmediate();
GC.Collect etc

The assets are not being held or referenced by anything, is there anyway to purge or release the memory once that LoadAssetAtPath is called? Right now we have to close the editor down and re-open.

The issue is that on our machines, our boot time into our app drops by about 10x once we've run this process and it will be tricky to avoid this flow..

Not sure if we're missing anything obvious, we also are not able to jump to 2018.2 to use the new ResourceManager right now..

thnx

 

I'm also having the same issue. Calling "Resources.UnloadAsset" print an error saying:

"UnloadAsset may only be used on individual assets and can not be used on GameObject's / Components or AssetBundles"

Isn't there any way to remove that asset from memory?

 

+1

 

Bump. I need to know this as well, there must be a way to free the memory. If not, than boo Unity.

 

+1