Ok I've never had this problem before.  I'm trying to render a image and normally the pop-up window says "creating shadow map for....... (what ever light I have the shadows on)" but with this image it says "optimizing images" but the percent bar won't move and it's been there doing that for hours with no results.  How can I change/fix or do something about this.  BTW I'm using 1.8

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