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Storyline file size
Have you tried publishing the work in progress? I recently used Replace Image to shrink a lot of images, but it seems like the file size shrunk after a Publish.
Another thing I discovered in the Replace feature was the ability to see how many times an image was used. In my case, instead of "replacing" an image, I deleted the second instance of an image, went to the first instance of an image, then copy/pasted it at the location of the second instance. Storyline counted that as one image used twice, instead of two images.
I did a publish now, and the zipped scorm file turns out to be only 34 mb, so that's good. But did you really mean that your storyline file got reduced after you did a publish? This did not happen for me. The storyline file is still 207 mb. And I even tried a new "save as" after the publish.
Most of my images are only used once. but sure, I went in and deleted a copy of a slide that I had saved as a backup alternative version of a slide I had experimented a bit on about the design. Therefore, I got rid of approx 10 small images that was used twice. I saved the file (again, save as) and even now - when I have deleted this slide, and can see in the media bank that there are less images in there, the file size remains 207 mb.
Doesn't make any sense to me.
If (like DOMETIC Academy) you're trying to reduce the size of their Storyline file, I suggest these 3 steps, which have worked reliably for me:
- Just in case, check for and remove any unused screen recordings: On the ribbon, choose Slides then bottom ½ of Record Screen button then Delete Unused Recordings. (They can be left over from literally years ago, especially if someone has used Save As to derive your project or template from an earlier one.) Regardless of whether you find any, continue to step 2...
- Move your file to your local hard drive. (I was sceptical of this often-heard advice, but in this case it seems essential for the file to actually shrink.)
- Open your locally-stored file and save it twice. (In my case it didn't matter whether I chose Save or Save As, it's doing it twice that seems to make the difference. I prefer Save over Save As, so you don't end up with multiple copies of your file everywhere.)
I hope that works for you, as it has for me – multiple times. (Often it's reduced the file size by over 90%. In one case, it shrank the Storyline file from 250 MB to literally just a couple of meg!)
