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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...
I tried parts of it. But in the end all of it fails, mainly due to the way Articulate compiles code and obfuscates it in Storyline. I changed a .story file to .zip... then you can unzip that file and get folders and files...that basically is your storyline file. You can check all code and dive deep into the realms of Articulate code. If you zip that folder with all assets again and change the extension to .story the result is a working correct Storyline file.
So i tried changing images in that folder. If you keep them the same name and setup...all will work and the images are changed in the storyline.
So my next step was i wanted to exchange a file. So add a file with another name in the folder and change all code where it was mentioned to that filename.
That failed...and mostly because there are too many spots were the images are referred...and i found and changed quite a few, but well it failed.
Actually it partially failed. The storyline would open normally, but the replaced image didnot show up...there was a 'missing image' reference...
And this is from an existing Storyline, not even from a published output...
