Captivate 3 - Want to recreate project from temp folder

Report · Sep 18, 2009

Hello,

I was recording a webinar session (one of 6 recordings I made) and one of the sessions, when I ended the recording during a break (by hitting, appropriately, the 'end' key), it said 'Creating slides # of #'.

When it got to 9 (of 205), it froze, and then after a couple minutes, I got the 'End Program' dialog. I was recording a long session (no doubt), but that is not the issue I need to discuss. I have read the disclaimers about optimal slide length...

I went and found the temp folder that I think had the data saved from the captivate session. In that folder, I have .dat and .swf files. I can copy the swf files into a blank cp file, but there is no sound accompanying them.

My question: Is there a way to bootstrap this temp folder to recreate the lost session? I think I still have the data available; if I could get cp to try to see the temp folder as a raw cp session for creating slides, I'm hoping I can recover the session.

It was an expensive training session, and the part that was lost was the meet of the training.

Thanks!

Jared

Report · Sep 18, 2009

Hi Jared

Ouch! Double owiee!

Unfortunately you have painfully discovered that Captivate is not the tool of choice for creating something with 200 slides. Good on ya for sorting that you can get back some of it but it may do you no good without the audio, eh?

Raw data exists inside the CP file so I'm more than a bit unclear on what you mean by having the data available but coaxing the XP to see it. Do please expound.

Cheers... Rick

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Report · Sep 18, 2009

Hi Rick,

Thank you for responding. I have a folder from the local settings/temp directory that has the data stored in dat/swf files that is used to create the actual .cp file.

When CP recording is stopped, my assumption is that CP then reads the files from the temp directory into the .cp file (what's happening when the 'Creating files...' countdown when recording is stopped), and then deletes the temp folder (~Ca#).

I would like to recreate that process of turning the temp directory used to store the files while recording into the 'untitle.cp' file, that I can then save and publish for viewing. I'm hoping the sound is part of the .swf files found in the temp folder.

Any ideas how I might do this?