Saving Captivate project freezes pc

I have a user at the office, when she tries to save a
captivate project (project specs below) it will freeze her machine
(this is not an Export, just a captivate save), Exports seem to
work just fine.
Project Specs:
This is an established project that I'm making minor
revisions on. The last project was 231MB, but the one before was
103MB. The size didn't seem to matter much.
Only Captivate locks up. I did wait yesterday after getting a
"No Response" on the program, and it took 27 minutes to finally
save.
Slide #: 50-88 slides
Audio: Yes (on every slide)
Objects: Graphics (background page
Other special features: Interactive elements that Captivate
offers (transitions & simulation of software)
Let me know if there is any other information that i can
supply to help with this.

Hi Accurohealth,
A few things might help with saving this rather large
Captivate file. You don't say whether you are using Captivate 1 or
2.
- Make sure the file is residing on the local hard drive
(C:).
- Try doing Save As instead of Save. This is good practice to
periodically do - Save As appears to optimize the file's data.
- If using Captivate 2, open the Library and delete any
unused items.
- With a file as large as this one, the Save process can take
a long time, especially after making a lot of modications to the
file. Try waiting it out and see if Captivate finishes saving.
- You could also try saving more often. If you recently saved
and then closed the file, the next time you open & save it
usually finishes faster.
- Some other things that could help: close the Captivate file
immediately after saving, do 'Save As' periodically on the file,
restart Captivate periodically to flush the undo stack and other
items, reboot the machine, and also try defragging the hard drive.
Your file(s) sound like they are typically very large in file
size and slide number. You may find things work more smoothly if
you break large projects like this into two or more linked files.
IHTH
~Aaron

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