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rebuilding story files from output folder contents?
Greetings, all.
I've got some courses that were published a couple years ago, but the original story files were mistakenly deleted, and all I have now is the production folder and the zip file tha...
No the chef is Storyline. Developers are just sous chefs, chopping vegetables and laying them out for the chef to do her work when everything is in place. I was just assuming that if Storyline follows a particular pattern in creating the course directory and its contents based on the contents of the story file using the same rendering process every time, that Storyline might also be intelligent enough to look at the directory (so long as it was un-altered since the original rendering) and re-create the story file from looking at the directory. A chef would have a harder time, 'cause she'd have to imagine how much flour and sugar etc it would have to include just by looking at the cake (where chemical reactions have already altered the form of things), but in SL, all the graphics, videos, sound files, text, and interactions are in the finished course product in more or less their original form, and it doesn't seem a stretch that SL would have much difficulty figuring out "well, this image is here in this directory and is referred-to in this js file and that html file, so the original story file had to have looked like this," and so on with each slide, each element, until the original story file is rebuilt...
Maybe ChatGPT would be a better one to ask.
