Large story doesn't Publish

Hi Ted are you publishing to a network drive?  I find large files do not like network drives and really for best practice you should publish to a local drive.

I am publishing to a local 3 TB drive.  No network involved.  Just did it a third time.  The preview worked

but the publishing didn't.  Augh! 

It builds the output folder but there is no html story and the swf story gives an error message and doesn't work.

There is also no "Congrats!  View project" after rendering the 391 slides and no error message telling what went wrong.

Check your path length is less than 256 characters and that there are no special characters.  I have courses that are 4 to five times that size (in MB not slides) and have no problems publishing.

Phil,

Just checked that and shortened the title down and still no go. 

Don't know what to do.  What I may do is eliminate slide after slide to see if one is particularly bad

(problem is the publishes take so long).  Any other ideas of how to get around this as

it is a game stopper. 

Thanks

I have spent the whole day eliminating slide after slide groups and with each long save and long build it has taken the whole day and

I still haven't been able to locate exactly the problem.  This is a problem.  When it doesn't publish there should be some

sort of error message identifying the errant slide or specific problem so I can have a clue.  Trial and error has cost me 8 hours and

I'm getting closer but still no sure thing (I think its in the 20 video slides; will know hopefully tonight but not sure what to do if it

is the video).  Oh well. This was a game stopper for me. 

Hi Ted,

I'm sorry to hear about the difficulty you're having with publishing, and thanks for first checking into the local drive, and that the file path was well below the 256 character limit, and you'll also want to check that there aren't any special characters or symbols in your file name. It may be worth importing your current project into a new Storyline file to see if that resolves any of the issues, and using a similar method to removing slides or groups, you may want to import sections at a time and try publishing those to see if it'll help you narrow down the slide or section that is causing the difficulty. 

Also, we're always happy to take a look at your files as well. You can share them here in the forums or if you'd prefer to share privately you can connect with our Support engineers or I could share directions on how to send to me privately.