Does Parallels 8 Play Well With Storyline?

Hi Andrew, I updated last weekend, it corrupted my pvm file, and preview doesnt work in windows 8, seems fine in windows 7.  I managed to get my files out of the pvm and reinstall.  I have not reinstalled everything yet though as I am looking at buying a 27 inch Imac to use as my main machine. 

Hi, Phil!  Hmmm...a corrupted pvm file doesn't sound like a very seamless upgrade, now does it?  That's disappointing; I'll be curious to hear if anyone else had similar issues.  I'm on Windows 7, and have no particular intention to move to Windows 8.  I don't have your expertise in handling pvm files, so your update experience is a concern--although, as I noted, I'm currently actually keeping all my files on the Mac side; I don't know whether that would be a good thing, a bad thing, or immaterial for the Parallels upgrade.

Thanks for letting me know of your experience.

Not sure how the pvm got corrupted but it never got past installing parallels tools.  TBH its easy to get info out of a pvm just right click view package contents and then mount the HDD file.

I upgraded from Parallels 7 last week and haven't seen any issues. 

There is always one

I have to say my Mac has something wrong that I cannot work out, I think I have some dodgy memory or hard drive that is causing issues.  I have had to rebuild it twice in a month

I've been using VMWare Fusion since I got my iMac 27. Recently upgraded to Mountain Lion and VM v5 plus added more ram to a total of 16 gig. 

Smooth, fast, and easily swap files between Mac and Win. No issues.

Thanks, Dave--glad to hear you had no issues.  Phil--it does sound like your Mac has some challenges.    Kevin--I'm not using VMWare, but in case I ever switch, glad to know it's working well for you.  I quite liked Parallels 7, so if version 8 is that much better, I'll be a happy camper.  I'll try to do the upgrade as soon as I have some time free.

So, I finally had a chance to upgrade to Parallels 8, but now Storyline opens in a tiny window with only the top left corner of the application visible, and the window doesn't allow me to expand it, so I can't get Storyline to load properly in Parallels 8.  Do I need to uninstall/Trash Storyline and reinstall it now that I have Parallels 8 installed?  Any guidance would be much appreciated.  I'm still getting used to the Mac environment.  Many thanks!

Cannot help much, as i said Parallels trashed my whole installation.  I have just got an iMac ith 16gb and run windows via parallels 8 windows was installed into parallels 8)  Storyline works better than any other mac i have used (Even the new macbook Pro). 

Thanks, Phil.  I know you had some unique circumstances in your case.  Glad your new setup is working well for you!

After more than an hour with Parallels support, ultimately they just referred me to this known issue and told me to subscribe to it for updates as to when a patch is ready.  So I will have to hope they get it done soon!

http://kb.parallels.com/en/114694 

Update everything and then follow George's advise. It finally helped me after 3 days of trying to get it to work.

We did an SL workshop last week in San Diego. I think I counted 6 or 7 Macbook (air, pro) in the room. Most folks were running Parallels but at least one user had VM Ware. Pretty cool.

The one issue the Parallel 8 users reported was that the Delete key wasn't working.  A quick Skype chat with Brian Batt returned this helpful resource for re-mapping the Delete key in Parallels: http://blog.crsw.com/2011/01/19/map-delete-key-to-backspace/

It doesn't sound like anyone in this thread is having issues, but I thought I'd add it just in case.

Hi, folks--Sorry, I should have posted once I got my issue resolved, but at the time no one else seemed to be posting ideas or having the same issues, so it slipped my mind.  Since Parallels offers free support for the first 30 days, I took advantage of that, and in a couple of sessions with them, we worked out settings that will render Storyline properly within Parallels on a Retina display Mac.  As George has noted above, unfortunately resolution needs to be set to "Scaled" rather than "Best for Retina".  The Parallels support person told me this is because Storyline doesn't support Retina display yet, so Parallels can't address that except to basically choose a lesser resolution. They gave me slightly different settings for the Options than what George cites, however.  

Under Options, Coherence:

The only thing not checked is "Disable Windows Aero"

Under Options, Full Screen:

Use Mac Full Screen: ON

Scale to fit screen: AUTO

If anyone else is having rendering issues on a Retina display, I hope that helps.  I'm happy to make screencaps of the configuration screens if anyone needs them.

David--Thank you for posting that Delete key remapping!  That had been driving me crazy, but each time it happened I was in the midst of creating something, so I just used "Cut" and got on with the work, always forgetting to go back and research the fix.  Now I have that, which is great!  Also, the number of Macs showing up at Storyline classes is hopefully telling all you Articulate folks something (Hint, Hint, Hint...)! I'm imagining a world where we have a native Mac version of Storyline that is Retina-display friendly.  Soon.  

Thx,

Andrew 

I switched from using a retina to using a 27 inch iMAc plus a 27 inch cinema display my eyes are not as young as they used to be.

Native Mac version is a must