Opening Captivate 4 project in 5 adds to slide notes, read by TTS

I have a project that was started in Captivate 4, and when I open it in Captivate 5, it does the conversion and introduces 
 in the slide notes which the TTS speech egnine reads.
First, any ideas on why this would be happening, how to prevent it?
Second, is there a way to do a seach and replace within the slide notes? The regular Find and Replace dialog doesn't show a Search In option for notes.

all,
I actually found the answer to my own question, in a way.
One of my projects apparently was corrupt an it was causing the issue with the disappearing notes. However, after rebooting my computer, clearing the Adobe Captivate Cached Projects, I opened a different project in Adobe Captivate 5, and all the notes were in place. After a while, I figured that as long as I don't open the corrupt file, my notes remain in place. I had to recreate the corrupt file though and save it with a different name.
I also noticed that the files are more likely to get corrupted if they are long (over 70-80 slides long) or if they have a lot of animations (really a lot).
As for the people using Captivate 3.... You may be used to Captivate 3 and it may be hard to switch software, but Captivate 5 is a lot more powerful and has a lot less issues than Captivate 3 ever did. I would reconsider, if I were you...
Sometimes, simply republishing a project helps...
If the "stop" button is a problem, I'd copy all the slides (in the source file) to a fresh new project, except for the one with the stop button; and then I would try to recreate the button that causes the issue, save and republish the new project.

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"CatBandit" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi Brian,
> I think what might be happening is that Captivate 3 is
still reading your
> file
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projects, I'm not so
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thought.
>
> But that doesn't solve your problem, so if I am right
about the above and
> there is a chance I am not), the trick is to make
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have version 2,
> that
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>
> 1) Try opening a new project (blank) of the same size in
Captivate 3.
> 2) Then open the target project in Captivate 2.
> 3) With both open, just cut-and-paste the slides from
ver2 to ver3.
>
> I'm thinking it should work for two reasons. First,
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>
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>
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> not
> be able to use this (system resources if the file is too
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> as well as the issue just covered above). But if it
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>
> Best of luck, and keep in touch with an update on your
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> would.
> Thanks!
> .
>

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