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Help needed to recover corrupt file
Team, I have been working on a project for the past six months in Articulate Storyline. File has been working great, until this morning when I get this message when trying to open it. How do I recover this file?
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- PhilMayorSuper Hero
iculate may be able to help, do you have a back up, would be hard to lose six months work
- RockRousseauCommunity Member
I had a backup on OneDrive, and that is also corrupted. Does SL have a back up function to save to their network?
- PhilMayorSuper Hero
If you publish to review and enabled backup the answer is yes but only a snapshot from the last tie you published and uploaded.
You should be able to go further back in Onedrive with version history Hey RockRousseau​,
So sorry to hear that you've encountered file corruption while authoring in Storyline.
Great to see Phil has been helping you! For your reference, Storyline 360: Cloud Backup is the feature he is referring to.
Also, I noticed that you've shared the affected .story file through a support case. I was able to import the content of the corrupted file into a new Storyline project. It looks like the corruption was caused by audio elements from various Slides in Scene #7. I'll follow up with you privately through your case and include a fixed copy of your file there.
Moving forward, these tips can help reduce the risk of corrupting or losing Storyline files. You mentioned using OneDrive. Storing your project files on a network drive is ok, but we suggest moving them to your local hard drive when making edits. Authoring directly from a cloud drive can introduce unexpected behavior or possible file corruption.
One extra tip. You may be able to recover a previous version of corrupted files by checking your Windows Temp Folder. Here's how:
- Open this folder in Windows Explorer: %appdata%\Articulate\Storyline.
- Scan the contents of this folder for a .story file
- If you find the file, copy it to your desktop (if you find more than one, copy the latest version).
- Change the file extension of the copy on your desktop from *.tmp to *.story.
- Double-click the file to open it in Storyline.
Let's continue the conversation through your case.
- RockRousseauCommunity Member
Steven, are you saying you were able to recover the file in a new Storyline project? If so, can you send me the recovered file?
Hey RockRousseau​,
Thanks for following up.
Yes, that's correct. I've just replied to your email through your support case, including a fixed version of your .story file.
We can continue the conversation there!
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