I was wondering what is the largest SL course anyone has worked with? I have a 3.9 GB SL file (with 200 shortish videos, etc.) and am wondering what are the risks of not splitting up a course of this size, but keeping it whole. My understanding is, that at the end of the day it comes down to slow save/publish times and whether an LMS can handle, but wondering if there are the risks I'm not considering.
There maybe a limit with size in the LMS but it should work fine as it is only 2-3 slides ahead at any time.
When working in storyline your save times could get large, 20-25 minutes but if you have auto recovery on you may get lags. I would be concerned that any larger it will just fail to save and may get corrupted, publish times will also be large.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. I think I already have run into a corrupted file issue, in fact. I'd never heard of a course this big. It compresses to less than half the size in SCORM publish but it's really hard to work with (hour+ to publish to Review e.g.). For the record/anyone else, I wouldn't recommend this as a general matter/all things being equal. I will check the auto recovery setting. Thanks for that, Phil.
I'd also suggest you look at where you're working on those files, and that they're local project files as detailed here. That is one of the known causes of corruption and worth checking into!
If you need our help looking at a file too, don't hesitate to reach out to our Support Team! They're available 24/7 to help.
Thanks, Ashley, I think the file is more or less intact now - I saved to desktop and it opened for me - but I've never worked on a ~4GB SL file before and was wondering how safe it is and if that is as uncommonly large a file size as I fear it may be...i.e., are we with our project (incl. 2 addtl./other courses of similar size btw) going where 'few SL developers have gone before', or is it not esp. uncommon? Any thoughts much appreciated.
Lauren, thanks. I think I may have missed this comment before. I'm back to re-read this thread b/c the same client has asked for help again working with very large (but not as large this time) SL files with a ton of videos. It would seem no one's worked with SL files as large I mentioned above/~4GB which is probably worth noting in and of itself (for me as well as the client, and maybe the community too). I definitely would recommend against it for anyone unless they have a super- souped up machine/setup. 'Course, fast-accelerating computing power/Moore's Law will soon make these petty concerns obsolete!
Anyway thx again, and hopefully I won't be back again re this matter :).
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I would just make sure I frequently save incremental versions, so if you have a file become corrupt you don't lose a lot of work.
At that file size my main concern would just be that the file becomes unusable.
There maybe a limit with size in the LMS but it should work fine as it is only 2-3 slides ahead at any time.
When working in storyline your save times could get large, 20-25 minutes but if you have auto recovery on you may get lags. I would be concerned that any larger it will just fail to save and may get corrupted, publish times will also be large.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. I think I already have run into a corrupted file issue, in fact. I'd never heard of a course this big. It compresses to less than half the size in SCORM publish but it's really hard to work with (hour+ to publish to Review e.g.). For the record/anyone else, I wouldn't recommend this as a general matter/all things being equal. I will check the auto recovery setting. Thanks for that, Phil.
Hi Bill,
I'd also suggest you look at where you're working on those files, and that they're local project files as detailed here. That is one of the known causes of corruption and worth checking into!
If you need our help looking at a file too, don't hesitate to reach out to our Support Team! They're available 24/7 to help.
Thanks, Ashley, I think the file is more or less intact now - I saved to desktop and it opened for me - but I've never worked on a ~4GB SL file before and was wondering how safe it is and if that is as uncommonly large a file size as I fear it may be...i.e., are we with our project (incl. 2 addtl./other courses of similar size btw) going where 'few SL developers have gone before', or is it not esp. uncommon? Any thoughts much appreciated.
Hi Bill!
I haven't seen a course of that size, so my recommendation would be to take extra safety measures such as saving to your local drive.
I hope our community members will share any tips they have when creating courses of that size.
Lauren, thanks. I think I may have missed this comment before. I'm back to re-read this thread b/c the same client has asked for help again working with very large (but not as large this time) SL files with a ton of videos. It would seem no one's worked with SL files as large I mentioned above/~4GB which is probably worth noting in and of itself (for me as well as the client, and maybe the community too). I definitely would recommend against it for anyone unless they have a super- souped up machine/setup. 'Course, fast-accelerating computing power/Moore's Law will soon make these petty concerns obsolete!
Anyway thx again, and hopefully I won't be back again re this matter :).