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Project won't save - Storyline 2
Getting a different error nearly every time.
Cannot access part because parent package was closed.
Cannot access a closed stream
Store must be open for this operation.
What gives? I ca...
Well, I've had some success in the last two weeks. I did a little research on how I could get applications to perform better and found something created by AMD that seems to really improve Storylines' performance and I never had a save issue since I started using it. It's called Ramdisk and it''s free. It's not the ideal way we want to run Storyline, but it seems to work.
First I installed and reviewed the instructions from AMD on how to set it up.
Bassically it takes your Ram and allocates a portion of it for specific use and calls it a ramdisk. I have 8GBs of ram, the program is limited to 4GB allocation in freeware mode. I didn’t want to allocate that much anyway so I set 2.5 GB’s up for the Ramdisk.
Next I uninstalled Storyline 2 and did a forced Location install of the program to the ramdisk using the instructions provided by articulate:
http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline-2/how-to-change-the-installation-location-for-articulate-storyline-2
After the install I copied over my project 600MB project to the ramdisk and I still had 1.25Gbs left on the ramdisk. Plenty of room for the project to grow.
During my edits I noticed the projects published 3x faster, saved about 2x faster and I never had a lockup or save error.
Only draw backs I could see is that my system slowed down for any other tasks which is likely due to the reduced available ram for the system. If you use it, I would suggest that when you’re done using storyline that you copy your project to your normal save location. The ramdisk will save the stoyline app and files in a ramdisk.img that can be unloaded/loaded at anytime, but will start with your windows if you don't unload it before shutting down.
