I imported a new version of a dress i made and i wanted to link the animation so i don’t have to do it all again but when i link the dress it becomes giant and i cant scale it down because it always reset the scale.
Sounds like your original animation had some scale keyframes, which were appropriate for the original mesh but are not appropriate for the edited mesh (which has probably had scale applied.) If you don’t want the dress to get big, maybe delete the scale keyframes from the linked animation?
The problem was the origin of the dress, once put correctly it worked