Captivate 4: Project corrupt/C4 crashes

Hi,
while producing video tutorials we are inserting foil backgrounds and so on. Now it happens very often, that the project suddenly is corrupt in that way that no new foil can be inserted (nor by recording, importing, or copy/paste). If trying to do so Capitvate notifies an error and crashes. But it is possible to edit the existing foils and to produce the (unfinished) videos.
My questions:
- Does anyone know if corrupt Captivate projects can be remedy?
- Does anyone know what causes the corruption?
- Does anyone know  a (maybe running) process to insert foils into such a project?
Many thanks in advance.

Hi,
fyi:
Meanwhile I found out that the project can be rescued. After reviewing OS processes, OS setup changes, reinstalling Captivate and so on and so forth the project is further on corrupt. Because it was possible to copy foils - but not inserting - I copied all foils at once, opened a new project, and pasted the foils. That's all, the new project can now be processed as expected.
Unbelievable how long it took, until I recognized, that simply copy/paste is the solution

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