Storyline corrupted files?
Apr 30, 2013
Hello,
Yesterday I encountered something weird. Every time I tried to use Storyline it kept shutting down on me and not saving any of the changes I was trying to make to the module. I abandoned my efforts after about 3 hours and thought it might be on Storyline end of things. Today when I opened up the module to continue working on it, I find that every single one of my images in the both the master file and on each of the 75 screens are now gone. No where to be found. I can "see" them on the thumbnails view, but when I actually click on the slides to view and work on the slide, no images. It won't even let me add any images back into the module.
Has anyone encountered this? Do I have a corrupted file? Any way to salvage this module?
I have an un-corrupted version published version out on Articulate online, but that doesn't help me with my "working version".
Thanks for any insights, suggestions, and help!
Michelle
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Importing slides into the project is always a good idea in terms of helping resolve any odd behavior or issues. You'll want to ensure that you're following the steps documented here for importing and then ensuring that you're working on local project files and adhering to the other guidelines here to prevent odd behavior.
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Hi There,
I know this is an old post but every time I publish my simulations they just don't seem to play all the way through. I don't know whether the file is corrupt as the older version plays fine. It is a very big file size (300MB) but I don't think that should affect things. I think one of the screencasts are corrupt from fine tuning things.
Have you ever come across this error?
I am publishing this in SL3.
Hi Matthew!
I'm not familiar with that error.
Sounds like you are able to successfully publish the course, and experiencing an issue with the playback?
Are you able to go back into the SL3 file and edit/modify the screencast that you mention and have the course viewed successfully when published?
Hi Leslie,
Yes it is just an error when playing back the published file. However, it works when I publish it via swf. But when I try playing it via HTML it just crashes and in some cases just shuts down like it's being rejected by the browser.
I am thinking that one of the screencasts must be corrupt as I have been fine tuning some of the videos but I have never come across this error before.
Hmm, that's interesting Matthew. How are you publishing and sharing the course? Is it happening in a particular browser?
Is the graded slides corrupted? There is one point of time my assessment completely cannot save the changes at all. So in the end, I use a previous version which is from previous day to do the changes. Thankfully it didn't show this issue again. Although there is another option, which is redo the quiz slide from scratch ==
Storyline file corrupted.
Can you help to recover it ?
Thanks
Hi Angela,
I did'nt see your comment back then,but I just came to say that I'm very happy you found a solution! :)
Hi Jorge,
I'm sure you don't want to lose lots of hard work on your module, and I hate that you ran into that error. You might want to try opening a new project and importing the slides from that file into the new project.
If that fails, there may still be a working version of your project in your temp files. Here's how to check:
Thanks for your information.
I have tried to opening in a new project but get this error.
Hi Jorge,
I'm sorry you're still hitting roadblocks. It may be that the file is corrupt still, and if you were trying with a file from the temp folders, that could still have the elements of corruption in it.
Please let us know if there is anything else we can do to help.
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