Project files being overwritten in Captivate 5

When we create a new project in Captivate 5 and save it we do the following: "File", "Save As" and choose our preferred location which happens to be a folder on the local desktop. The next project we create and save we go through the same process but, of course, change the name of the file. The problem we are having is that it overwrites the previous file and we never end up with more than one captivate file in that folder at a time. The previous files are overwritten and gone. Is there a setting that I am unaware of that is causing this or do I need to open a support ticket? Anyone encounter this previously?

In my first days of playing around with CP5 I lost all files in a folder into which I saved the CP5 project (I had to restore all of them from a backup that I -thanks god- created just before that).
Then I created a separate folder dedicated only for CP5 project files and published files. Since then no files have been lost - but I don't know the reason why.
So I'm also very interested in some detailed information on when files are deleted from the target folders by saving or publishing CP5 projects.

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Files being overwritten

I just upgraded to Dreamweaver CS3 from MX 2004. I have the
following enabled for my site definition: Maintain synchronization
information; Enable file check in and check out; and Check out
files when opening. The problem is, every time I open a file
locally, it automatically and instantaneously gets overwritten by
the remote file. This did not happen with MX 2004, and this has
caused many problems for me. Is this supposed to be happening, or
do I have a problem here? I've tried disabling Maintain
synchronization information, but this doesn't change anything. Any
and all help is greatly appreciated.

> Isn't that the point of the
> synchronization feature - to alert you when your files
are not synched and
> then
> let you choose what you want to do?
If you are using checkin/checkout, the remote site is the
gold standard for
all checked-in files. Thus, overwriting your local copy is of
no
consequence, since you cannot have made changes to the file
after it has
been checked in. It would be unnecessary for DW to ask if you
want to
overwrite it, because DW assumes that you know it will be
overwritten by
virtue of the fact that you have just initiated a checkout
operation. Get
it?
> If a co-worker checks
> out a file, makes a change to it and checks it back in.
I can then check
> out
> that file and make changes of my own and check it back
in, right? Am I
> misunderstanding you on that?
Your understanding as expressed in the first two sentences is
absolutely
correct.
If your co-worker checks out a file, you cannot check it out
until it's
properly checked in by your co-worker. Once the file is
checked in, you can
then check it out.
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> If the automatic overwriting of files upon opening has
always been, I
> never
> noticed it. I have always had file check in/check out
enabled, yet never
> experienced my files being overwritten until CS3. The
specific problem
> with the
> file being automatically overwritten is simply the fact
that I feel I
> should be
> asked first if I want to overwrite the file. Isn't that
the point of the
> synchronization feature - to alert you when your files
are not synched and
> then
> let you choose what you want to do?
>
> Also, you said if a file is properly checked in, then I
will not be able
> to
> make any local changes. That doesn't make sense to me.
If a co-worker
> checks
> out a file, makes a change to it and checks it back in.
I can then check
> out
> that file and make changes of my own and check it back
in, right? Am I
> misunderstanding you on that?
>

Can Captivate 4 project files be opened in Captivate 5?

I was wondering if captivate 4 project files can be opened in captivate 5? I know captivate 2 project files cannot.
Thanks guys,
Kya.

Hello and welcome on the forum (see it is your first posting),
Normally there are no issues when opening CP4-files in CP5: they will be converted, including the advanced actions (if there are) and to AS3 if the CP4 was AS2 because CP5 only supports AS2. I only had some few issues with those convertions.
Beware: you will not be able to open the converted file in CP4 anymore. As always, be careful to keep the original files stored safely somewhere.
Lilybiri

New files being overwritten by FTP cache

I have Dreamweaver set up to connect to my ftp server; there are about 100 sites in my /sites/ directory that I access to make changes to.
On one site, whenever I open a file and edit it, all of the related files on the server are overwritten with old files being pulled from *somewhere* when I save the file.
I'm guessing Dreamweaver has a cache of files from the FTP connection that it's pulling from; my question: How do I either a) disable caching or b) update the local files?
And telling me to set each individual site up in DW is not helpful - there are just too many sites, that's why I use the FTP connection to pull the files I need directly.

I have Dreamweaver set up to connect to my ftp server; there are about 100 sites in my /sites/ directory that I access to make changes to.
On one site, whenever I open a file and edit it, all of the related files on the server are overwritten with old files being pulled from *somewhere* when I save the file.
I'm guessing Dreamweaver has a cache of files from the FTP connection that it's pulling from; my question: How do I either a) disable caching or b) update the local files?
And telling me to set each individual site up in DW is not helpful - there are just too many sites, that's why I use the FTP connection to pull the files I need directly.

Downloaded files being overwritten

The browser (Firefox Browser for Android 20.0.1) itself is great, but I have one problem. When I download a file (and I do this rather often) after closing browser and opening it again, Firefox starts to re-download the same file. It wouldn't be a problem if the file which has been already downloaded earlier wasn't being overwritten.
But it often happens that instead of the full file, ie 460mb, I discover that my file is incomplete, of a size of several kbs. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

The browser (Firefox Browser for Android 20.0.1) itself is great, but I have one problem. When I download a file (and I do this rather often) after closing browser and opening it again, Firefox starts to re-download the same file. It wouldn't be a problem if the file which has been already downloaded earlier wasn't being overwritten.
But it often happens that instead of the full file, ie 460mb, I discover that my file is incomplete, of a size of several kbs. Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

UCCX 7.1 Holiday.xml file being overwritten with older file

I'm administering a UCCX server v7.1 in which the holiday.xml file in the wfaavid\documents\user directory keeps resorting to an older holiday.xml file after I manually copy an updated file into the directory. When I initially copy the file over, our Contact Center identifies the holidays fine. I find each holiday there after, an older version of the file with older dates appears. So I have to manually copy the file to the directory again that holiday morning. I'm assuming the switch occurs before hand but not sure when or why. Is there another directory I'm missing that I should be copying the updated file too? Or is there another explanation that is causing this issue?
Any help would be appreciated.

That local directory is overwritten by the document in the repository (in the database).
That's working as designed. You'll need to leverage the web page AppAdmin to update your XML file, or do it from within a script with the Upload Document step. Those are the only two supported methods.
Anthony Holloway
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SP2013 and Project 2013 - project files open in read-only mode with no options to edit only Save As

Hi all,
Environment:
SharePoint 2013 (15.0.4420.1017) RTM
Windows 8 - Project 2013 (15.0.4433.1506) 32Bit
Issue details:
When opening .mpp files stored within SharePoint they are opened successfully within Project 2013 however they are opened in Read-Only mode with no options to edit/check out only Save As. The
same outcome is experienced if you click the document link within SharePoint or you chose to edit from the document menu.
Opening the file through windows explorer also opens only in read-only mode.
To date we’ve tested the following
Windows 7 – Office 2010 = working as expected
Windows 8 – Office 2010 = working as expected
Windows 7 – Office 2013 = opening as read only, no prompt to edit
Windows 8 – Office 2013 – opening as read only, no prompt to edit
Current thinking is that it is an issue with either the SharePoint Office Documents Class ActiveX control or Project 2013 itself interacting with SharePoint 2013.
We have tested this in multiple SP2013 environments with the same outcomes.
The workaround therefore is to save locally and then upload again which is not ideal.
Unable to find an exact issue match to this.
Any help with this appreciated.

Hi Dan,
For us after investigating this further it was found that using the document menu to edit or checkout and then edit results in the project file being opened in read-only mode.
The same issue was present for Visio files.
Using the FILES ribbon menu results in the document being opened in edit mode successfully in both Project and Visio.
Please note that we found that this issue only exists within document libraries where checkout is required to edit which was our case. If checkout is not required the document
menu can also be used as expected.
Cheers,
Dan

GB Creating Corrupt Project Files

Hi. I've been working with GB and GPO (Garritan Personal Orchestra) for a video project. A had a Project open (a fairly large one) and was frequently "saving" to the project on the Mac HD. I have encountered problems with GB crashing and the project files being used becoming corrupted in the past week. But I can't figure out what's causing the problem. This time I saved the project, opened up a track volume control for one track (Out of the 20 or so tracks) and clicked on one point and the big picture in the Software Instrument went black and GB crashed. The Relaunch dialog window came up. At that point, the project was corrupted. I now have two .band files that don't have a thumbnail preview when looking at them in the finder. GB says "Read Error: Illegal format of file. Abort" when I try to open them. Any help on more of what's causing this problem rather than how to fix the corrupted files (Even though that would be fantastic) would be appreciated.
Thanks
Lojimek

Sorry I don't have any insight as to possible causes (do you Lock as many tracks as possible)? but here's HangTime's tutorial on rescuing corrupted files:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/Tutorials/RescuingFiles.html

Project file size bloats (Captivate 3)

Does anyone know what causes a project file to become disproportionately bloated? I was working on a file that was approx 200 MB, then imported some objects onto one slide from another project, and suddenly it jumped to over 300 MB (I even deleted all items in the library that weren't being used elsewhere).
I've noticed this phenomenon on more than one occassion. It seems to occur most frequently when importing objects or slides from one project to another.

Hi there
The only way that I've ever seen a file size reduction in Captivate 3 was by performing the following steps:
Open a second instance of Captivate.
Create a new blank project sized identically to the other instance.
Switching between instances, copy slides from the bloated one and paste into the fresh one.
Save the new one and the file size is reduced.
Discard the old one.
Note that you will likely need to re-establish any links you had.
Just a special note here about one of the things you tried. You said you exported to XML. I don't believe you are able to export to XML, then import from XML back into a new project. I believe the XML export works in a very similar manner to the Microsoft Word export. Only the project that exported it will be able to successfully re-import it. As I understand it, the XML export is especially designed for Captivate developers that need to localize (translate) their projects.
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Extremely large captivate project files

Hi there,
So we recently hit a problem with Captivate, we use both english and arabic for our courses and one of our projects is about 27 slides (including 7 question slides) and the final captivate file size for the arabic course (not published) is about 1GB, however the english course is a mere 120mb using the same material, only difference is in the text.
I just tried deleting all the slides and selecing all unused data and deleted them for the project hirearchy, but I ran into another problem which is that the project file dropped 20mb in total and its still close to 1GB.
I would also like to add that the published release for the arabic course was around 80mb.
Adobe Captivate Version : 7.0.1.237
Any ideas? let me know if more information is required..
Thank you!

Holy cow!! Adobe has a 3rd level of support? Cool. Only
partially kidding ... I really didn't know you could access various
levels. Is the 3rd level where you get to talk to the actual
engineers? Just wondered ...
Joel, in my experience it is often helpful to go to the most
basic approach in trying to isolate a problem. For instance, you
can eliminate the PPT being the cause of the problem by creating
another to try importing.
You can eliminate computer resources (on your own machine) by
importing a tiny, tiny PPT file and work up to a larger one.
And finally (for now), have you tried to use Power Point's "
File > Page Setup" to reduce the footprint (size) of the
PPT you are trying to import into Captivate?
This has been known to help, and at one time years ago I even
had a formula of sorts to get the size of the PPT to compliment the
size of the Captivate stage (slide). Sadly, I can't find that now,
but I would think you should keep the aspect ratio (AR) the same,
and that should help.
For instance, if the Captivate project is 800x600 (pixels),
the aspect ratio is 4:3 (as it is for the standard computer
monitor). Therefore you would want to set up your Power Point
project with that same AR so that the import process is not forced
to change AR, or to crop the imported images.
Hope there is something of value in there for you. When you
get up to that level of help where you are talking to the President
of Adobe, could you drop my name ... every little bit helps.
Have a very nice day JoelStern!!

Captivate Project File Backward Compatibility

I tried searching online, as well as in the forums, but I wasn’t able to find a similar scenario where Captivate 6 can open/work with/convert old Captivate 1 .cp project files.
We have an old version of Captivate (Macromedia version 1.01.1418.1418) and we already have created a number of .cp files.
System specs where Captivate 1 is installed:
Windows XP Professional 2002 (32-bit), SP3,Intel Core 2 Duo, P8400 @2.26GHz, 1.98Gb RAM
System specs where Captivate 6 (Trial Version) is installed:
Windows 7 Enterprise 2009 (64-bit), SP1, Intel Core 2 Duo, E8400 @3.00GHz, 2.00Gb RAM
We tried to open it with the trial version of Captivate 6 but the file won’t open. Files opened were already saved locally. The following notification appears:
We already checked that no other application is accessing the said file while it is being opened in Captivate 6.
Is there a way to convert the file so that it can be opened in Captivate 6?
We already have a purchase of new licenses for Captivate 6 in the works. We just want to confirm this early if there’s a way to handle the projects we created using Captivate 1. This way we could adjust resources if we need to work on the .cp projects we made using Captivate 1 and start from scratch using Captivate 6.
My apologies if this inquiry has already been addressed somewhere in the forum, however, I really need to find out the solution at the soonest possible time.

I suppose the only way would be to try to find some versions between CP1 and CP6 and try to upgrade in steps. There has been so many changes since that version, and it is clearly told that you cannot upgrade that far backwards. Not even sure if you could upgrade without issues from CP1 to CP4. CP5 was a totally different version, so you should at least have to upgrade first to CP4. Even then there could be a lot of problems going from 4 to 5 and later, because AS2 is no longer supported.
However there is no problem to have both versions installed on the same system. I have CP4, 5, 5.5 and 6 installed on my laptop and they are living happily together
Lilybiri

Variable being overwritten in the Variable Substitution (File Adapter)

In the File adapter Receiver Communication Channel, I am using variable substitution.
The problem is that the first variable I use (userid) is being overwritten by the second variable (filenumber). How can I fix this problem?
File Name Scheme: %userid%_%filenumber%.xls
Target XML:
============
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<Worksheet ss:Name="FileName">
<Table x:FullColumns="1" x:FullRows="1">
<Row>
    <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">0209519</Data></Cell>
    <Cell><Data ss:Type="String">32226v2 v1.1</Data></Cell>
</Row>
Variable Substitution:
=======================
userid          payload:Workbook,1,Worksheet,1,Table,1,Row,1,Cell,1,Data,1
filenumber    payload:Workbook,1,Worksheet,1,Table,1,Row,1,Cell,2,Data,1
Expected Output:
==============
0209519_32226v2 v1.1
Actual Output:
============
32226v2 v1.1_32226v2 v1.1
Thanks for your help.

Thank you for all your suggestions. I decided to modify my target XML and concantinate all the fields into one string so I don't have to worry about the variables being overwritten in the variable substitution.
Target XML:
============
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Workbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<Worksheet ss:Name="FileName">
<Table x:FullColumns="1" x:FullRows="1">
<Row>
<Cell><Data ss:Type="String">0209519_32226v2 v1.1</Data></Cell>
</Row>
Variable Substitution:
=======================
filename payload:Workbook,1,Worksheet,1,Table,1,Row,1,Cell,1,Data,1
Expected Output:
==============
0209519_32226v2 v1.1
Actual Output:
============
0209519_32226v2 v1.1

Is there any way to prevent fields from being overwritten when importing data via xdp-file?

In an pdf-form designed with LCD everytime the form gets merged with an xdp-datafile content of all fields get overwritten, regardless which data-binding (normal, global, none) is assigned to the fields and regardless if the fields are exluded in the xdp-datafile. Is this normal behavior and is there any way to prevent fields from being overwritten?

The xdp-file is first exported from Acrobat Professional 8 (export data as *.xdp) to get the complete structure. Then in the xdp-file some fields are removed manually and other fields are filled with data. When the modified xdp-file is opened again with Acrobat Professional 8 it grabs the original pdf-form and merges the manually filled fields into the form. With the merge all other fields in the form are overwritten, even if they are not defined in the xdp-file. And that is what I want to avoid. I want to merge the xdp-file into the form and keep the data in fields not defined in the xdp-file.

How do I revert to replaced audio files being saved with the project file, *not* with the original audio files?

In the latest release, when you send an audio clip to Audition, the newly created audio clip - which was previously saved in the same folder as the project file - is saved next to the original audio file.
Makes sense, but for reasons to boring to go into, it's a major headache for my workflow, because it means combing through folders to find the files, instead of having them all in once place.
So how to I turn this off and revert to those files being saved next to the project file?

Hey Steve,
You'll want to connect your phone to your computer and sync it in iTunes. You can read more about it here:
iOS: Syncing your data with iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
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Have a good one,
Delgadoh

Project Site Permissions Being Overwritten

Hi there!
We're on Project Server 2010.
We've been having an ongoing struggle with custom Project Site permissions being overwritten from time to time. We've unchecked the auto sync for Project Site Permissions. I believe that's working well. I suspect where our troubles
come from are the PSI. Calling QueuePublish through the PSI is the only way I've been able to replicate the issue. However, we've been unable to find out what is making this call. For example, Our tier 1 support person will
see all is well with a Project Site's custom permissions late in the afternoon. But the next day the permissions will have been overwritten and it seems everyone in the Project Managers group and Web Administrators have been added back to the site.
I can even see in the ULS logs where it appears the Publish occured, but unable to identify what called it.
I also attempted the steps in this article ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh670402(v=office.14).aspx ) to disable synchronization for Project Sites (DisablePWS = 2) with no success. Even when I use DisableAll (4) the user sync fires when
the QueuePublish is used through the PSI. This would be a great solution if I can get it to work.
Has anyone had success completely eliminating PWA to Project Site permission syncs? Either through identifying what jobs may trigger a full publish or by making the sync change detailed in the article I linked?
Thanks so much for your help!

Hi Raddius
There has been a similar discussion going on this thread, hope this answers your query
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/projectserver/ar-SA/ffdc437b-883b-4190-aa86-8f16452b1e09/i-want-to-break-inheritence-and-create-unique-permissions-in-a-project-server-2010-project-site?forum=projectserver2010general#706ac83d-83ba-4046-acab-4b279ff4d7ba
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