CAN DEVELOPERS PLEASE MAKE IT SO YOU CAN RESTORE A FILE FROM A ZIP????
Oct 11, 2021
I'm frustrated! Short version of my frustration is we cannot find an original .story file, but we have the .zip file as we use it to send to students in our LMS. We need that file. We (and collectively, I mean anyone who uses Storyline, no matter the version (we use 3) need to have some type of a failsafe.
I tried the "change the extension" but the problem is the file was made in 2, so it won't even attempt to become a .story file again.
I spent 120 hours on this. It was stored on a laptop - we are a network driven place, so even that was a challenge. At one point, I know the original was transferred to the shared network, but now it seems to have disappeared. And of course the laptop that was used was turned back into our IT and has since been cleared off.
So, developers, please, pretty please with sugar on top, find a way to make it so we can recover a file from the output!!!!!
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The failsafe would be to archive your files and ensure the backups exist in more than one.
I know a number of clients who would not be happy that you could convert the published output into the source file and if this is implemented there must be some way to prevent this.
Count me as one of those developers who would NOT want his source code out there for any wannabe "consultant" to lay claim to.
Before Macromedia changed how Flash published a SWF, you could decompile the SWF back into its source FLA file. Needless to say, plenty of developers were NOT happy that any script-kiddie with the right tool could lay hands onto their keys to the kingdom.
You will have to rebuild your course from the published zip ( = Scorm ) file.
As a comparison... you dont expect to be able to get the original After Effects file from a rendered Mpeg video. Expecting to get a Story file from a published scorm package is in fact the same.