freeze on articluate storyline

Mar 18, 2013

I'm using the trial version of articulate storyline & comparing it to Adobe Captivate, and unfortunately, Storyline keeps freezing over on me.

At this stage I have one slide and one layer and I'm trying to make text appear on a photo when the user hovers over the photo - real simple stuff.

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but I have to restart my PC to get the thing working again & it's happened a few times now!

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Christine Hendrickson

Welcome to E-Learning Heroes, Russell!

That does sound strange. Out of curiosity, are you receiving any errors when Storyline freezes, or does it just completely lock up? 

The first thing I would do is check to make sure all of your project files and media (images, etc.) are on your local hard drive. 

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

Additional information regarding "Naming Files, Paths, and Namespaces" in Windows operating systems can be found in the following Microsoft article.

You may also want to check to make sure your machine meets the minimum requirements to run Storyline:

Articulate Support > System requirements for Storyline

If all else fails, maybe a simple repair will resolve this for you:

Articulate Support > How to repair Articulate Storyline

I hope it goes well, Russell. Let me know if you still experience the freezing after taking these steps.

Thanks!

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