Opening Adobe Captivate 3 files in Captivate 2

Hi All,
Question which I'm really hoping you can help me out with.
We have a fully registered user working with Captivate 1 full
time. She recently liaised with an employee and told him to record
some training which she would then work with. He has gone and
downloaded the Captivate 3 trial and recorded absolutely tons of
stuff which took hours and hours.
She has tried to open this with Captivate 1 to no avail
(predictably) but we have the licence for Captivate 2 which she is
upgrading to tomorrow so I was hoping it may be possible to open
the Captivate 3 files in Captivate 2 ableit with any specific
Captivate 3 features disabled? She hasnt got 2 installed yet so I'm
pre-emptively asking as it's fairly critical to our timeline.
If this is not immediatley workable does anyone have a
workaround which can enable opening the files?
Many, many thanks for any help you can provide.

David's link to the Feature Request form is a great idea.
I'll jump in here just long enough to ruin your day, "Ruler2B" ...
you are cooked, period!
The only way you are going to be able to use those Captivate
3 generated files at all is to buy Captivate 3. They will not work
in (convert to) either Captivate 1 or 2, and after 30 days, the
"trial period" for Captivate 3 will expire and even the previously
published output will no longer work, either. But if you buy a
license of version 3, you can re-open the projects, then go to the
Preferences dialog to change the expiration date, and re-publish
them ... all will then be okay again.
Bottom line: Buy Captivate 3 license, or throw away all that
work ... there are no other options.
And please keep in mind that I am not "Adobe", just a user
like yourself, so it gives me no pleasure at all to point this out.
Please don't shoot the messenger ...
David -
I completely agree that there should be at least
some compatibility (like a "Save As ..." option) for
later-to-earlier version, such as with MS "Word"; "Word 97" can
open "Word 2003" documents, though some features may not be
available, and that's the way it should be. I imagine the reason
there is no option like that has to do entirely with the Marketing
and Sales departments - and that's just sad ...

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