File SIze In Articulate Storyline

Jun 23, 2012

I am wondering if there is a way of save and compacting the storyline file as it doesnt seem to correspond with the size of the file. For example I tried to delelete all slides in project to keep its setting etc before importing some slides ...and yet it is stil 7MB when empty.

Other files seem to creep up to 20MB and then others with sames slides in are under 3MB.

When it publishes it goes down to under a MB . I guess I am looking for a save and compact function?

Thanks in advance if you have a suggestion

58 Replies

Pierre Jouan

over 8 years ago09/17/15 at 12:47 pm (UTC)

I just got an answer from the support team.

My "Failure" and "Success" layers from Results slide were actually using two different Feedback layouts (I wasn't even aware of that).

I applied a blank Feedback layout from my set in use and I could delete the other ones!

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Staff

over 8 years ago09/17/15 at 2:20 pm (UTC)

Thanks Pierre for the update regarding your feedback masters behavior - and glad it was something easily fixed. :)

Patrick Vincent

8 years ago01/27/16 at 9:20 pm (UTC)

I had this same problem: 50+ scenes with the file size around 600MB. I deleted all but three scenes and resaved the file, but the file size did not change. However, I did a File Save As and renamed the file and it reduced the file size to 10MB.

Mike B.

8 years ago01/27/16 at 10:09 pm (UTC)

Patrick, I've found that several "Save As" in a row will continue to reduce the size.

John Smiddy

7 years ago04/13/17 at 4:03 pm (UTC)

I'm working in Storyline 2 and have:

- removed all but 3 slides
- removed all unused assets
- all of the question bank slides
- saved the file with new names 3x
- saved as a template

This has reduced size from 200 mb to 198 mb.

I've got 28 courses to upload all around 200 mb. It's going to take a couple of hours...not very efficient. Has this been fixed in SL3?

Leslie McKerchie
Staff

7 years ago04/13/17 at 7:52 pm (UTC)

Hi John - Are you finding that saving the file, closing, and re-opening is not reducing the file size as you think should happen? Have you worked with our support team on this? I do know that the assets 'remain' for a bit to support the undo feature of the software.

I have not seen this reported in Storyline 3.

almost 7 years ago04/26/17 at 9:47 pm (UTC)

Hey John,

I found a simple workaround for the bloated file size issue, which for me was specifically related to screen recordings, and it was the first success I've had to date despite all of the attempts at saving-as-multiple-times/closing/reopening/saving-as-again/chanting/re-publishing/yada-yada.

SCENARIO: Story size: 125MB story - AFTER deleting everything but a single blank slide. (I applied above advice to no avail.) As I dug deeper, I stumbled across some unused screen recordings.

WORKAROUND:

1. I deleted the recordings. ('Record Screen > Delete unused recordings')

2. I published the story. (CRITICAL STEP - saving BEFORE publishing did NOT change file size.)

3. Saved as a new file. New file size: 8MB. Still pretty high for a single blank slide, but workable.

Hope this helps.