Reversing published content back to editable storyline files

Nov 13, 2019

Hi I have a published ecourse which we have lost the original articulate source files - is there a way that we can convert a published file back.  I'm hoping that with Articulate 360 - you may have been able to find a way to do this.

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Vincent Scoma

Hi Hermiene, 

Thank you for reaching out!

While you can publish Storyline courses to your LMS, this published version cannot be reverse-engineered from your LMS. 

An option that might help is to see if you can locate a working version of your project in your temp files.

Here's how to check:

  1. Open this folder in Windows Explorer: %appdata%\Articulate\Storyline
  2. Scan the contents of this folder for a file that starts with the name of your project. If you find one, copy it to your desktop. If you find more than one, copy the latest version to your desktop.
  3. Change the file extension of the copy on your desktop from *.tmp to *.story.
  4. Double-click the file to open it in Storyline.

We also have a video of this process that you can review here

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