Size matters: Have I reached the limit?

In my case it isn't intermittent. And it won't publish, either. Complains of a missing file. I forgot which one and the publishes take a good long time, but I'll make a note of the filename on my next publish attempt.

It does appear to be size related. If I remove one of the large scenes, it previews successfully. I'm now experimenting by removing scenes of different sizes. An excruciatingly slow process, but hopefully it will let me identify the limit.

Has anyone else bumped into upper limits that could not be exceeded?

Mine was about 180 slides, all with audio and a handful with video.  The .story size was about 350 MB.

Hey, Russ!  I got a pretty high-end PC.  If you can, want to send me your story file and I'll try it out?

Hi, Gerry. Yes, this is baffling. I'm getting inconsistent results by deleting scenes and difficult to see a pattern. Next, I'll just try rebooting the computer. Maybe I have a resource allocation problem. If that doesn't work, I'll FTP the file and let you know where to find it. Thanks for the offer.

Reboot didn't help so I'm FTPing the file now. My DSL isn't particularly speedy so it'll take about an hour to upload. I'll PM the link to you when it's there. Thanks for the help.

No problem.  Be interesting to see what happens. 

Maybe we'll end up buying Macs . . .

Ok, the file is out there. Check yer PMs. - Russ

Retrieving now . . .

Hey, Russ! 

Okay, I got it to publish with no problems twice, once to my solid-state drive and once to my regular hard drive.  I didn't time the publishes, however.  The first publish was the longest.  Second time it just flew (caching?).

Have not looked at the content yet.  Am uploading to a web server and will PM you the URL shortly for you to review . . .

Oops, just tried to launch the content from a web server and got this:

Probably time to file a support case with Articulate.

I got that same error messge with my big file.  I republished and it was fine.

Yeah, that was what I got, too... Ugh! I've paid a guy several hundred dollars to do the data entry for the questions and I already have about 40 hours of development time in the project.

Bummer that it's crapping out just as I was getting close to completion.

Thanks very much for giving it a try, Gerry. This info helps as I try to pin down the bug.

Hmm, in both sets of published output, there was no data.swf file produced. 

Am trying a third publish now, this time to the same location as last time.

My problem is that I get these errors every time. It's not intermittent.

Rummaging around my hard disk it's clear that data.swf is not being created. I was hoping it might just be an FTP problem and I could copy the file manually. Apparently not the case.

Now we have to figure out what I did in SL that confounded its compiler into skipping creation of that file.

Three more publishes and the same result--no data.swf is created.

Wonder if any other files are not created?

Hi Russ,

We'd love to get our hands on this file as well. Are you able to send it along to our support team so they can look at it? Thanks!

Hi, Peter. I sent the link to it this afternoon in a support ticket. Got a reply from Jayem Abania. If you still need it I'll be happy to give you the link. I'll do anything I can to help get this one resolved.

Perfect. Thanks, Russ, I see it now. Really appreciate you working with us on this one

I also got the same error message, republsihed and uploaded into my LMS and it all worked?

Chat, how large was your project in terms of both filesize and number of slides?

About 50megs so not as big as the one being discussed turned out to be I think an issue with the unpacking in the LMS?

Peter, any idea how this is progressing? I need to get a status update. Cannot plan without knowing what is going on.