Slides Jumping to New Locations

Hello Sarah!

Have you tried using the button to reset the menu order based on the slide order? This is found in the Player tab under Menu:

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I typically do this, but may not have yet with this project.  Does this help to "keep" my order?   I thought that was just to make sure the menu on the player was in sync with the scene. Thing is, my slides were just fine all last week, then they shifted around when I opened my project today. 

I noticed a post about this happening two years ago, posted by Jeff Forrer.  The response was to report this issue.  But that was two years ago, so I don't know if this is a big or not.  The post is called "Bug-Automatic Renumbering of Slides."

Do you have any suggestions for how to restore order?   I have been trying to drag the slides into the proper order and that is not working.  I think I have to resort to rebuilding slides, which is sad because I have animations and slides layers on some of them.

Any insights are appreciated.  Thanks for responding.

Hello Sarah,

Using the menu reset button with make your menu list go back in the order that the slides/scenes are numbered in Slide view.

Are you working locally with this file? Also, have you conducted a repair?  I took a look at the case from the thread you mentioned, but that had to do with a numbering variable, and importing the file into a new file did provide a workaround. 

Thank you Emily.

I am working locally.  I have not conducted a repair. 

Thanks for taking a look at that other thread.  I thought the issue was the same.

Thanks also for pointing out the menu reset button.  If I can get the right numbers on the slides (they have changed as I have been trying to get them back into the right order), this sounds like a good solution.

Is there a way to avoid this in the future?  It seems to happen when I have slides in different branches.  They seem to jump around unexpectedly from time to time.

Hello Sarah, 

The menu reset button is usually a good option, when the numbers have not changed. To avoid this it is recommend to follow the steps in the link provided above. If this does happen again, or continues with this file, you could submit a support case to see if they could look into your file a little closer.

Hi Emily:
I just reset the the button, and while it did clean up the order on the menu, my project is still a mess.  I will figure it out. 

I looked at those links.  Maybe I need to conduct a repair. 

I will submit a case if this becomes a larger problem.  Thank you again for your help.
Sarah

Thanks for the update Sarah,

Let us know if the repair works for you.