Captivate file sizes

Using Captivate 8, have noticed that as you work on files they get bigger, even cutting EVERYTHING out down to a simple slide does not reduce the file size (I've removed everything from the library too).
It seems that Captivate is hanging onto things it no longer needs.
Is there a workaround other than starting from scratch and copying slides across?

are you referring to the output file or the project file itself?
i usually look into the folders of an unzipped output file. The file size of each folder and its contects is usually displayed in the explorer window (windows) or in finder (mac). I have found some unneeded files in there, usually unused assets, on a number of occasions.

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    Upon saving (as a new cp file) the project was infact 1.16GB in
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    you don't need any longer, try:
    1. Doing a Save As, then a Save As again. Often, for whatever
    reason,
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    2. Create a new project and import the existing project's
    slides. This
    can have the same effect.
    In my experience, the first is better for reducing file sizes
    and the
    second is better for getting rid of any playback anomalies.
    Otherwise, a better approach for what you're doing, again in
    my
    experience, would be to cut up the audio outside of Captivate
    into one
    file per slide (using a tool like Audacity), import them all
    into the
    library, then add each individually. That's our standard
    process and
    we've yet to experience these huge, bloated CP files (knock,
    knock).
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    luke@nesc wrote:
    > I have been using Captivate to imbed an audio recording
    of a presentation into
    > the slides for said presentation. The audio is in the
    form of one large mp3
    > file. When adding the audio, I select the option to
    distribute over many files,
    > and line up all the slides to the correct part of the
    audio. If i need to edit
    > the slide times or audio (this happens frequently
    because captivate seems to be
    > rather buggy when splitting up the single audio track
    into one for each slide)
    > the resulting Captivate Project file rockets in file
    size. ....
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  • Maximum File Size for a Captivate file before the graphics begin to get replaced with rectangles

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  • Project file size bloats (Captivate 3)

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    I've just done the "Save As" twice - and that first file is down to 1,100 KB - which is a huge reduction from it's previous size! It's still growing already though - just updating the numbers in the book has taken it from 800 KB up to the new 1,100 without me doing anything else (not even opening it myself). Track Changes is (I believe) switched off ... in Edit > Preferences, unless there's somewhere else...
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  • Captivate Save File size

    After removing several larger images (3300k) from Captivate
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    Hi there
    tedpulse wrote:
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    In that case I would definitely suggest you (and others) take a moment and report this to Adobe as a potential Captivate 4 bug.
    Click here to visit the Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form
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  • Huge file size after importing

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    If file size is the biggest concern, once you've cleared out
    all items
    you don't need any longer, try:
    1. Doing a Save As, then a Save As again. Often, for whatever
    reason,
    this finally gets rid of old, unused objects.
    2. Create a new project and import the existing project's
    slides. This
    can have the same effect.
    In my experience, the first is better for reducing file sizes
    and the
    second is better for getting rid of any playback anomalies.
    Otherwise, a better approach for what you're doing, again in
    my
    experience, would be to cut up the audio outside of Captivate
    into one
    file per slide (using a tool like Audacity), import them all
    into the
    library, then add each individually. That's our standard
    process and
    we've yet to experience these huge, bloated CP files (knock,
    knock).
    Erik
    luke@nesc wrote:
    > I have been using Captivate to imbed an audio recording
    of a presentation into
    > the slides for said presentation. The audio is in the
    form of one large mp3
    > file. When adding the audio, I select the option to
    distribute over many files,
    > and line up all the slides to the correct part of the
    audio. If i need to edit
    > the slide times or audio (this happens frequently
    because captivate seems to be
    > rather buggy when splitting up the single audio track
    into one for each slide)
    > the resulting Captivate Project file rockets in file
    size. ....
    Erik Lord
    http://www.capemedia.net
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