CP4: Issue Opening Project on Different PC

Question

I created a project on CP4 on my home PC. However, when I tried to open this on my work PC I have run into problems.
To all intents, the .cp file looks like it is opening up but then does not progress beyond the Start-Up screen. When I opened up another instance of CP4 and tried to open up the same file again, it told me that another version of Captivate was already using the file, so clearly it thinks it is open.
Both versions of CP4 were installed from the same Adobe E-Learning Suite package, so I am at a bit of a loss to understand the issue.
Many thanks in advance for any help anyone can give.

Answer 1

Hello,
Will have to check, for the moment I'm in college and have only my laptop. But as far as I'm understanding the idea of 'OLE' an embedded file is really into the host file, whereas a linked file is outside. Because it is easy to update imported PPT-slides when they are changed in the original PPT-file, the default setting in Captivate is 'Linked', which I think is very correct. If you look at the Presentation in the Library, you'll see that for linked presentation the size is 0Kb. If you embed the presentation, you will see the real size of the presentation.
Your second, interesting question learnt me something too, thanks! Find the Presentation in the LIbrary (you can open the library by the Window menu or CTRL-ALT-L), use the right-click menu and you'll be able to change from linked to embedded and vice versa. So as long as you stay on the same PC you keep it linked, and if you have to transfer the file, change to embedded.
Hope you'll enjoy Captivate as much as I do
Lilybiri
PS: sorry, had been looking in CP5 for the size of the linked presentation, just see that in CP4 the linked file has a size of 1Kb