I worked on a project, zipped it, made a SCORM and then sent it off to the customer. Someone else, on their side, made edits. So now they have sent me a zip file and I can't figure out how to get it back into Articulate. I just have a bunch of files. Please help!
Thank you so much! Turns out, I was the last person who published it. No one touched it after me like I was told, so I am saved for now. If it ever happens again I'll look back on this. I really appreciate it and feel so much better now:)
Hello! Bringing up an old topic here. Our IT department accidentally wiped all of my Storyline files. They are currently in our LMS and I am able to extract the zip file.
Is there any way that I can open this file within Storyline? HELP!
There is not. :( Once the cake is baked, you can't pull out individual ingredients. IT owes it to you to recover at least a backup.
Fortunately, you only lose back to your last backup.
If you don't make backups, and store them someplace where neither IT, nor gremlins can access all of them at one time - well, now you know why I never trust anybody (not even myself) with my last copy of anything.
Any new updates to this? I am in the same boat. A former teammate only uploaded the zipped file to our shared drive and I cannot file the STORY file. I need to maker some changes to the project and would hate to have to start from scratch.
Walt’s post above is still true. The .story cannot be extracted from published output. If your IT department still has access to your former teammate’s computer or backup files, you might be able to retrieve a version of the file by searching for the .story file with the same name as your .zip file or even a temp file. Here’s how.
Open this folder in Windows Explorer: %appdata%\Articulate\Storyline
Scan the contents of this folder for a file that starts with the name of the project. If found, copy it to the desktop. If there’s more than one, copy the latest version to the desktop.
Change the file extension of the copy on the desktop from *.tmp to *.story.
Hello everyone, So, I have a similar problem. I new to a team where the last person had backed up a .ZIP folder from the Storyline project in SharePoint.
Here are a couple of steps I already tried that are suggested on this thread:
I downloaded the .zip and there ISN'T a .STORY file inside the zipped folders.
I changed the extension from .ZIP to .STORY and Storyline could not open the file.
So, since I don't have access to the original files, other than the one saved in the cloud, is there anything else I could try?
Brownies to the last person. Without the .story file, your only viable option is to recreate it, although if it has media (graphics, sound, video) in it, you can recover those.
I have the same problem. I was able to see my course by opening the story.html file that is inside the zip file that was made from Storyline. I can view my course on Chrome, but since I'm going to redo this course, this is good enough for me at this point.
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Hi jennifer
they need to send you back the source .story file for you to make edits. The published output files cannot be opened in Storyline.
so they just sent me the file name with a .story at the end. I think it's
the same thing. I'm trying to open it and all I see are files:(
Should it open up in Storyline when I unzip and extract it if it's in the right format and has .story?
Or will it not be a zip..... ahhhhh
Sorry not sure what you mean ?
The .story is the source file and some browsers change the extension to .zip (not sure why).
One of these may work:
If none of those work, and you're happy to share what they have sent you I'll try for you.
Thank you so much! Turns out, I was the last person who published it. No one touched it after me like I was told, so I am saved for now. If it ever happens again I'll look back on this. I really appreciate it and feel so much better now:)
Glad to hear it Jennifer - good luck with your project!
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Hi JP and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
This conversation is a bit dated, but are you experiencing difficulty opening a .story file?
If you only have the zipped published output, this will not include the .story file.
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Hello! Bringing up an old topic here. Our IT department accidentally wiped all of my Storyline files. They are currently in our LMS and I am able to extract the zip file.
Is there any way that I can open this file within Storyline? HELP!
Thank you so much!
There is not. :( Once the cake is baked, you can't pull out individual ingredients. IT owes it to you to recover at least a backup.
Fortunately, you only lose back to your last backup.
If you don't make backups, and store them someplace where neither IT, nor gremlins can access all of them at one time - well, now you know why I never trust anybody (not even myself) with my last copy of anything.
Any new updates to this? I am in the same boat. A former teammate only uploaded the zipped file to our shared drive and I cannot file the STORY file. I need to maker some changes to the project and would hate to have to start from scratch.
Here’s how.
Hello everyone,
So, I have a similar problem. I new to a team where the last person had backed up a .ZIP folder from the Storyline project in SharePoint.
Here are a couple of steps I already tried that are suggested on this thread:
So, since I don't have access to the original files, other than the one saved in the cloud, is there anything else I could try?
Thank you.
Brownies to the last person. Without the .story file, your only viable option is to recreate it, although if it has media (graphics, sound, video) in it, you can recover those.
>backed up a .ZIP folder from the Storyline project
this is probably the scorm package, the unpacked zip looks like this
if yes, then it looks bad - no .story file can be reconstructed from it
Thank you for the prompt responses @Walt and @Jürgen.
Yes, Jürgen, it looks exactly like this. Thank you for sending the visual and for the further explanation.
I have the same problem. I was able to see my course by opening the story.html file that is inside the zip file that was made from Storyline. I can view my course on Chrome, but since I'm going to redo this course, this is good enough for me at this point.