Using Storyline on a Mac

i am using SL2 in my mac, but am use Parallel 9 and work it!

I have used Parallels (running Windows 7) with Storyline on my Mac. It is not as seamless as running it on a full blown PC but if you avoid certain pitfalls it works much better. 

Keep all your files on the virtual PC. Do not run the .story files from a Mac disk and (for the love of god) never try to publish to a Mac disk. Storyline treats the Mac formatted hard drive as a network drive which it does not like. If you work directly from the virtual windows C: disk it will be much happier.

Check out tutorials for best practices working with aMac and Storyline.

Using VMWare Fusion on Win8.1, I don't have any issues publishing to or saving / opening files in the Mac share. Have never lost a file. No more publishing hiccups than I've seen publishing a file locally (once in a blue moon)

I do have plenty of issues importing media, particularly audio files. They just flat fail to import. To solve this, I setup a Dropbox folder for media and move stuff over that way with a single folder share into my VM.

Thanks all for sharing your experience here - and the articles Randall mentioned are linked below: 

Using Articulate Software on a Mac with Parallels
Using Articulate Storyline on a Mac

Hope that helps! 

Interesting. If it works on MAC via VMWare, it should theoretically also work in Linux? I might try that out this weekend using the free trial.

Hi David,

As long at it adheres to the system requirements here, you should be at least able to view the content there. 

My course include several Resources documents, which include Word, PDF, and Excel. files.  When testing live,  they won't download on MAC.  Instead, I get "Access Denied" error message on screen as seen on the attachment. I'm testing using both Safari and Chrome.  Both browsers produce the same error.  Any idea why this is happening? All the documents download just fine with Window.

Hi Kumiko,

Where are you hosting your course? you'll want to confirm that you're testing in the intended environment as described here. 

Hi, Steve

I just installed it with VMware. Everything is so small, how can I make it bigger?

Thanks,

Hi Henry,

You may want to look at following these steps within your VMWare set up:

• Ensure the Windows environment is using a DPI setting of 96 

• go to Virtual Machine > Settings > Display

• there is a checkbox "Use full resolution for Retina display"

• uncheck it and the VM changes back to normal resolution which should work with the 96 DPI setting. 

Please excuse my posting this concern here.

My delete key does not work when using SL2 with an apple bluetooth keyboard (not full size).

Is there a key combination that I need to press to make the delete key work.

I am running SL2 in Windows 10.

Thank yoiu for the attention.

Caesar

FN-DEL will get it.

No worries Caesar - luckily there is often someone here who can help with those type of questions too! 

Thank you Steve and Ashley.

I confirm that FN+Delete works working in a Mac using VMWare with Windows 7 installed.

However, I was asking about directly using SL2 in a PC with Windows 10 installed BUT using an apple bluetooth keyboard instead of a regular keyboard. This is where I can not get the delete key to function.

I am really shooting the stars to get a response regarding this concern. I was wondering if someone in the community already tried using an apple bluetooth keyboard on their PC and was able to get the delete key to work. I really like the feel of the apple keyboard :)

Again, thank you for the response. I appreciate it,

Hi Caesar,

It's actually the same set up I have - VMWare with Windows 8.1 and another with Windows 10. Both of those I can use my bluetooth keyboard to use the delete key for text. Are you trying to delete an object or shape? That's when you'd need to use the FN +Delete. 

Hello Ashley,

Thank you for email.

I am using the apple bluetooth keyboard as an external keyboard for my Lenovo laptop running Windows 10. SL2 is directly installed on the root drive; no virtual machines.

In SL2, when I press DEL key it behaves like a BACKSPACE key for text objects.  I can delete text doing this. However, when I try deleting an object or shape the FN+DEL does not delete it.

Hmmm...What could be different in my setup?

Hi Caesar,

My apple bluetooth keyboard is for my Mac machine - so that's the only difference between our set ups, as I'm also running Windows 10 (but within a virtual machine). When you're connected to the bluetooth keyboard are you still able to use your Lenovo keyboard as well? Does the delete key work for removing objects on that keyboard?

If it's an apple keyboard, should it be cmd + backspace to delete?

Hi Caesar, 

It's worth giving Robin's suggestion a try as well - although FN + Delete worked for me on my Apple bluetooth keyboard. 

Hi Robin,

Im using not the full size keyboard. I dont have a BACKSPACE key. Tried CMD+DELETE, it also does not work.

Thank you for the attention.

Hello Ashley,

My Lenovo laptap keyboard still works 100% when the bluetooth keyboard is connected. I can delete objects using the laptop keyboard.

Have you tried how that same behavior works in another tool such as Powerpoint? Perhaps there is something with that functionality and a Mac keyboard to PC? It's a bit outside my area, but it does work as expected on my keyboard with my Mac in Storyline 2.