Transferring an HTML back to Captivate 6

Last year we had a consulting company come in and help us create some lessons in Captivate 6.0. Some of the lessons they created are now out of date and we need to update/revise them. I have the original Captivate file for all of them except one. It was the first lesson they created and for some reason, I never got the original file. I can't contact them without them billing me for their time so I'm stuck. I'm trying to move the lesson to another location but the only thing I have is where they published it as an html document. Is there any way to convert the html document back into a Captivate format so I can edit/republish it? Or can I import it like I can PowerPoint documents? I don't want to have to reshoot the whole lesson since it is rather complicated.
Thanks
Caylen

Sometimes it's just worth the cost to bite the bullet and pay them to supply you with the source files.
However, in almost all contracts I have worked on the clients saw the source files as THEIR PROPERTY by virtue of the fact that they had paid me to create them. Inevitably, even though I always give the client the source files at the end of the project, they tend to lose them from time to time and ring up asking if I still kept my own copies (which I always do). But since the files technically belong to them anyway, could never charge mor than a small handling fee to send the files via courier or upload them somewhere for them to download.
My advice would be to contact the developers and beg for mercy. You never know, but they might be more than willing to just hand over the files. If they want to be unreasonable, trot out the wording of that contract where it states that all intellectual property belongs to you, and vaguely talk about "contacting legal" to ge it sorted.

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