Editing Movie Expiration Date in SWF? (lost project files)

Hello, big fan of Captivate and now use Captivate 3.
We use this for our customer demonstrations and training
tutorials.
One of my presentations took about 12 hours to "film" - I
saved this project with a Movie Expiration as it is a sales
presentation and I don't want people keeping old demos around.
Anyhow... a careless click had me delete the source files in
Captivate. I still have my output movies... is there any way I can
open the movies and push my expiration day out, or am I "up a
certain creek without a paddle?'
I had to ask before sitting down and re-recording the entire
movie... was hoping to have a Normal weekend, but maybe not?
Best Regards,
-steve

Hi Steve
If all you need is to buy some extra time for displaying the
movie, consider simply changing the system time on the PC running
the demo. There is nothing I'm aware of in the file that would
prevent this. This could then buy you some time to re-create that
source file.
You may also wish to hammer the development team to create a
decompiler for Captivate content. Something that sucks in a
Captivate created .EXE or .SWF file, and spits out a functional .CP
file. You may do this by
clicking
here.
Cheers... Rick

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