Stoyline has a tendency to quit unexpectedly after I've previewed a slide a few times, thus losing all of my changes. Is there a magic number of times one can preview a slide without this happening!? It's a bit much to have to save after every single change to a story but I do try. However, I get engrossed in what I'm doing and forget- that's exactly when Storyline decides to quit. I've sent reports in but don't know what comes of them.
Yes, that has happened to me a few times and i have lost hours and hours of work.... soo frustrating. I have tried un-installing as well but it seems to not make a difference.. any ideas?
Sorry for the trouble you've experienced, guys. Here are some general reasons and solutions for unexpected or erratic behavior in Storyline. Beyond that, if you feel you can provide us with steps to try and replicate the issues you're experiencing, we'd be extremely appreciative and happy to try and help resolve it. Thanks!
Thanks Peter, i think i might have found (and solved) one of the problems. I noticed that when i copy and paste an image ( especially from the internet) that Storyline will hang to the point where you cant even save your work and after a while.... quit.
So i had to go into every slide (there were 45 for this particular project), right click the image and then click 'save as picture' to somewhere on my hard drive. After that, we were back to normal speed instead of taking 2-3 minutes for a change to happen or even move to the next slide.
I've had something similar happen when copying and pasting images from PowerPoint files. I also found that doing a "Save as picture" on the PowerPoint image, saving it somewhere, and then adding it from there to Storyline worked.
I appreciate your help with this. I'm currently dealing with this issue. Surely Storyline needs to become more robust to deal with copy and pasted images. Feels a little unnecessary that users would have to do all that rework because Storyline product can't cope with it - with all respect. Will this be something investigated soon with the developers?
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Yes, that has happened to me a few times and i have lost hours and hours of work.... soo frustrating. I have tried un-installing as well but it seems to not make a difference.. any ideas?
Sorry for the trouble you've experienced, guys. Here are some general reasons and solutions for unexpected or erratic behavior in Storyline. Beyond that, if you feel you can provide us with steps to try and replicate the issues you're experiencing, we'd be extremely appreciative and happy to try and help resolve it. Thanks!
Thanks for the suggestions! It's always helpful to have options for solving problems.
Thanks Peter, i think i might have found (and solved) one of the problems. I noticed that when i copy and paste an image ( especially from the internet) that Storyline will hang to the point where you cant even save your work and after a while.... quit.
So i had to go into every slide (there were 45 for this particular project), right click the image and then click 'save as picture' to somewhere on my hard drive. After that, we were back to normal speed instead of taking 2-3 minutes for a change to happen or even move to the next slide.
Hope this helps others who come across the issue.
I've had something similar happen when copying and pasting images from PowerPoint files. I also found that doing a "Save as picture" on the PowerPoint image, saving it somewhere, and then adding it from there to Storyline worked.
Hi there,
I appreciate your help with this. I'm currently dealing with this issue. Surely Storyline needs to become more robust to deal with copy and pasted images. Feels a little unnecessary that users would have to do all that rework because Storyline product can't cope with it - with all respect. Will this be something investigated soon with the developers?
Welcome to E-Learning Heroes, Colleen! 😊
I'm sorry you're experiencing a similar issue when copying and pasting images into Storyline, and I'd love to help in any way I can!
First, I'd like to get a better understanding of what you're experiencing. Could you share more details of your process leading up to the issue?
I'm staying tuned for your response so we can keep at this together!