My drawing has many cloned objects. These clones are grouped and cloned again to make a complex pattern. I am trying to keep the file size small and I want to keep track of how many paths, cloned or not I have in the drawing. Is there any way display or count the number of objects. Including ones inside nested groups?

Select-same> object type, view count in status bar?

Thanks but no luck. If its selecting paths it doesn't select any cloned paths. If its selecting clones, a clone of a group of paths counts as 1 and not the number of cloned paths.

The paisley pattern has thousands of tiny details copied many times.

If you go to the bottom of the find panel, you can unselect all objects, and chose the types of objects you want then click find.

"Find" seems to ignore objects in cloned groups as well. :-/

It is possible to search for #g to select all cloned groups, then unkink them, then search for all objects.

Any way you cut it, it will be a lot of objects.

I  had a think about this. It's more complex than I thought.

Don't forget that often clones can sometimes be made from clones themselves, and those clones could could contain groups which could also contain clones lol.

You would have to follow all the xlink:href, and find resolve them :)

search for #g didnt find anything.
I started looking at analysing a PDF export to see if that was easier. But that was another long rabbit hole to go down. So I'll give up.

Thanks all for your help.