PPTA oddness

Jan 13, 2012

Melanie Sobie
By Melanie Sobie

This morning I opened my file to make a few more changes and then publish today. I noticed that I have two PPTA files; however, one does not have -old like you might see. I've dealt with the -old before when I've lost audio and used the instructions on how to reconnect audio.

Today, I have two PPTA files. One has and underscore at the beginning of the filename like "_filename.ppta". Has anyone had this? What does it mean?  I'm afraid to proceed without knowing if this will create a problem or not.

4 Replies
Peter Anderson
over 12 years ago01/13/12 at 7:46 am (UTC)

Hi Melanie!

That's not something I've seen produced by Articulate, and because the two versions were saved only 9 minutes apart and have similar file sizes, perhaps you just accidentally renamed a copy...

You should be able to remove the old one (back it up somewhere just in case), then remove the underscore from the newer one and open. Hope that's helpful!

Melanie Sobie
over 12 years ago01/13/12 at 9:58 am (UTC)

Peter - Just wanted to follow up with you and let you know how this worked out:

I think I had some kind of wierd Friday the 13th thing going on today.

I removed the old PPTA that had been created like you advised and then removed the underscore from the new one and opened. Then I made a minor change on two engage interactions (text-only changed), then published. The engage interactions didn't have my changes. Then I noticed an -old PPTA was newly created.

So I looked over all my files, and realized I had a few old engage .intr files that were no longer being used because I had deleted a couple engage interactions out of the PPT and built new ones. I deleted the old .intr files that were no longer needed. Then I went back into the PPT and opened up each engage interaction and each quiz and saved. Noticed it was re-generating the interactions. Then I published. Everything is fine now and the -old PPTA disappeard by itself!

Thanks for your quick response this morning!

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