.quiz file saving in temp folder

Oct 29, 2013

Hi,

Like many of you, I recently upgraded to Studio '13. I was working on a project last week that involved many QuizMaker and Engage files. Every time I want to make changes to those files, I click on the "Edit in Engage" or "Edit in QuizMaker" button that is located on the placeholder slide.

I wanted to update the look of the quizzes, so I created a new slide master, changed the size of the quiz, updated the results slide and made many other small changes to make it all look great. I published the course and decided to do my quality check Monday morning.

So Monday morning comes round. I check the published file and none of my changes were included in my quizzes. Hmm... what happened? That's when I noticed that my .quiz files did not appear to have been modified: the "Date Modified" was about three days before the time where I actually made changes.

That prompted me to look for at least one .quiz file. It had to be somewhere on my computer, right? I found them all in a randomly labelled folder in my temp files (C:\Users\igroulx\AppData\Local\Temp).

This brings up a few questions:

  1. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
  2. What can I do to prevent this from happening again?

Any guidance you can offer is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Isabelle

12 Replies
Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Isabelle,

I haven't seen other reports of the issue you're describing, but wanted to share some general guidelines when working with your Presenter, Quizmaker and Engage files: 

  • Work on your local drive (your C: drive).Working on a network drive or a USB drive can cause erratic behavior, includingfile corruption, loss of audio, and other unexpected behavior. 
  • You should also make sure the directory pathto your project files and your published output is less than 260 characters(for example C:\Articulate).
  • Avoid using special characters, accents orsymbols in your file names.

If you'd like to package your Presenter files for us to look at as well, please send them on the second page of this link. 

Isabelle Groulx

Hi Ashley,

Thank you for your response. I should have mentioned that I've been using Studio since 2005, so I've learned to work locally. I always bring all my files in the folder "My Articulate Projects". Additionally, we have a corporate IT policy that restricts the length of file names as well as the use of special characters, spaces, accents, or symbols in file names.

Now that I've relinked all the quizzes, I'm not sure that you would find anything in my files. I'll watch out for this problem and if it reoccurs, I'll package the files and send them over to you.

Thanks!

Isabelle

Kate Saynor

Hi,

I too have had issues of this kind. I click 'edit in engage' or 'Edit in Quizmaker' and once the changes are made click 'save and return' and it appears to be going all fine. Then when I come back to the lesson a day later - all the changes are lost (even if I click 'edit in Engage/Presenter again'.

I am working locally in the 'My articulate' folder, the character length is less than 260.

Any suggestions?

Kate

Laura Yoshitani

I'm having the same problem. When I update a Quiz or Engage file within the Presenter file, the Quiz and Engage files are being saved to a temp folder. I thought they weren't saving at all until I read others' posts about the temp files.

Leslie, I don't see the presenter options you refer to in the link above  (I'm using Studio '13). Also, I'm not sure if that is the issue since this happens when I'm simply updating the interaction within the Presenter file, not publishing.

Leslie McKerchie

Hi Laura! Yes, the information I shared above was for Studio '09.

When you insert an Articulate Quizmaker quiz or Articulate Engage interaction into your Articulate Presenter course, a copy of the original *.quiz or *.intr file is stored within the course's *.ppta file. This means that if you ever lose the original quiz or interaction file, you'll still be able to edit and publish it in Presenter. Please review this article for more information.

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