Forum Discussion
Reducing Storyline file size?
Disclaimer: my team is stuck using a 2-year-old version of Storyline (3.65.28121.0) because that's how government IT works. :/
We have a large project that was outsourced to a vendor a couple of years ago due to lack of staffing. We are now revising the course internally, but are publishing only the interactions for an eBook course. So we'll take a large lesson file (100MB, for example) and remove all the slides except for the 2 or 3 slides that are a knowledge check for republishing. So the project file is now only 3 slides, with zero audio and zero graphics. Yet the file size is still 100MB. I've tried a Save As a couple of times with some success, where the resulting file is a more rational 700kb. But that approach is hit or miss. Often I just end up with a new file that's also 100MB. Clearly the project file is hanging on to a bunch of hidden cruft it doesn't need.
I've also tried copying those 3 slides and pasting into a new Storyline file, but of course that results in formatting/design problems we don't want to have to fix manually.
Is there a way to get these stripped-down files down to the appropriate stripped-down size?
Thanks.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for reaching out!
Storyline 360 retains the original course's file size to give course authors the option to undo accidental mistakes they make while editing a course.
If you would like to publish only a specific section of an entire course, you can instead open a new Storyline 360 project file and import only the slides you need before saving this as a new project file. Here's how:
Let me know if this works for you!
