Has anyone run into this one?

I make an exact copy of a Captivate project file in My Documents. Both file
sizes are the same.

I open the copy in Captivate and delete three slides. I also go into the
library and delete unused objects.

I save the project and find that the new project, with three less slides, is
BIGGER than the original project!!

This is driving me NUTS! I've got a finite amount of server space to share
these on and Captivate seems to just increase file sizes at will! I've had a
couple of projects that double in size for no apparent reason.

I'm not working across a network, the files are on my desktop hard drive.

Anyone know of a work around or fix?

Thanks

(Going crazy in Las Vegas)
Jimmy

Yeah, I had problems with files sizes.

If you copy the slides you want and paste them into a brand new project, the
size doesn't go crazy.

Its odd, and probably worthy of a bug report/wishlist thing.

This is possible the most frequent post to this site. You can do a Search and
get lots of possible answers.

It is a bug. I recently posted this to the bug site. Adobe-India got back to
me and I sent them a project to prove the point that you are making. I also
proved that importing a Quiz set will BLOAT the project because you get the
entire project with the Quiz sets (the are just not visible). I was happy that
they said that they see the issue. I was SHOCKED that they said that, given
that this bug has been there for years. I cannot believe that I'm the only
person that reported this and sent them mockups.

But the good news is that they see the problem.

My Biggest (make that HUGE) complaint about Adobe is the lack of patches.
Every major software vendor does service packs about quarterly. Adobe will
patch Acrobat as needed. But the lesser known projects get nothing. BUGS need
to be eliminated in patches, not in upgrades. We should ALL complain.

I would like to buy 1 share of Adobe stock and show up at the Directors
meeting and let the world know how much they ignore the support for the smaller
products. "Mr. Director... I use Adobe Captivate and it has tons of bugs that
have been in it for years. Could you explain why the support at Adobe Systems
is so bad? Mr. Director, I use Adobe Captivate and there are tons of bugs and
no service packs for the last three releases, can you explain why Adobe Systems
has no patch policy?"

They can do WAY-WAY better and they can patch the problems without adding new
features.

On the other hand, I have been in contact with the developers in India on a
variety of issues lately and they are listening to my comments, they are seeing
the bugs that I point out to them and perhaps the next expensive version of
Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter will get it right? Maybe? But I would
like to see patches for what is broken, it's what others do, so why not Adobe
Systems? Why?

Joe C.

I had this same problem. I reduced the file size somewhat by doing this: (1) In
storyboard view, select all, right click, video quality and set it to STANDARD.
(2) In edit view, click View Library and click the Select Unused Items icon
(next to the trash can) and delete those. It may also help to get rid of
duplicate files ("copy of. . .") but be careful with that one.

Good luck.

Here's what I do to reduce my file size. Once I've deleted all my unused
objects from the library, click file save as (give it a new name. I typically
just add a letter a to the end of the file name), then do this again. For some
reason saving the file with a new name doesn't work, but twice does. Hope this
helps!

Personaly, I wouldnt bother will all that. If your file is substantialy large
and needs to be deployed across as an LMS, you need to design it for the
slowest 'link in your chain'. I would suggest breaking the course up into
seperate files, of say 10-12 slides each, if thats realistic. Try to keep every
file below 1MB so your load times are quick and, from a learner perspective,
they are unaware that a separate file is loading at all. Then, if you have a
traditional assessment, tack that on the end as a separate file. Works a treat.

Cheers