Captivate File Sizing

Question

Has anyone run into this one?
I make an exact copy of a Captivate project file in My
Documents. Both file sizes are the same.
I open the copy in Captivate and delete three slides. I also
go into the library and delete unused objects.
I save the project and find that the new project, with three
less slides, is BIGGER than the original project!!
This is driving me NUTS! I've got a finite amount of server
space to share these on and Captivate seems to just increase file
sizes at will! I've had a couple of projects that double in size
for no apparent reason.
I'm not working across a network, the files are on my desktop
hard drive.
Anyone know of a work around or fix?
Thanks
(Going crazy in Las Vegas)
Jimmy

Answer 1

This is possible the most frequent post to this site. You can
do a Search and get lots of possible answers.
It is a bug. I recently posted this to the bug site.
Adobe-India got back to me and I sent them a project to prove the
point that you are making. I also proved that importing a Quiz set
will BLOAT the project because you get the entire project with the
Quiz sets (the are just not visible). I was happy that they said
that they see the issue. I was SHOCKED that they said that, given
that this bug has been there for years. I cannot believe that I'm
the only person that reported this and sent them mockups.
But the good news is that they see the problem.
My Biggest (make that HUGE) complaint about Adobe is the lack
of patches. Every major software vendor does service packs about
quarterly. Adobe will patch Acrobat as needed. But the lesser known
projects get nothing. BUGS need to be eliminated in patches, not in
upgrades. We should ALL complain.
I would like to buy 1 share of Adobe stock and show up at the
Directors meeting and let the world know how much they ignore the
support for the smaller products. "Mr. Director... I use Adobe
Captivate and it has tons of bugs that have been in it for years.
Could you explain why the support at Adobe Systems is so bad? Mr.
Director, I use Adobe Captivate and there are tons of bugs and no
service packs for the last three releases, can you explain why
Adobe Systems has no patch policy?"
They can do WAY-WAY better and they can patch the problems
without adding new features.
On the other hand, I have been in contact with the developers
in India on a variety of issues lately and they are listening to my
comments, they are seeing the bugs that I point out to them and
perhaps the next expensive version of Adobe Captivate and Adobe
Presenter will get it right? Maybe? But I would like to see patches
for what is broken, it's what others do, so why not Adobe Systems?
Why?
Joe C.