Adobe Captivate 3 Question: Where Did My File Go?
I spent quite some time on a project (and I saved every few minutes along the way) and then closed it. Captivate crashed and erased the project completely, including what had been saved since I had opened Captivate that morning! I had to return to what had been saved the night before (when I had last closed Captivate) and implement my changes again). The same thing happened several months ago. If this had happened only once, I would have been willing to accept it as an unlucky fluke. But now that it's happened again, I'm inclined to think there is an underlying problem. Any advice?
Answer
It sounds like you got bit by a documented bug in version 3 (that was fixed in version 4). The bug suddenly makes perfectly good files disappear. There is a way to find the missing file. Here is an article I wrote on the subject a few weeks ago.
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Adobe Captivate Question: Links Don't Work. Why?
I'm trying to use the URL feature in Captivate for buttons and click boxes. The URL is good. But when I preview the topic, the links don't appear to work. I can click on them all day long and they don't take me anywhere. What am I doing wrong. FYI: The links don't work on my local machine; and they don't work on the server versions.
Answer:
What are you doing wrong? Probably nothing. My guess is that the server where you are publishing (and your machine) needs to have the security settings cleared up. Refer to this article on my BLOG for step-by-step instructions for getting the problem resolved–it will only take a few minutes.
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Adobe Captivate Question: Why Don't Right-Clicks Work?
The main reason that I upgraded from Captivate 3 to version 4 was to gain the much trumpeted right-click feature. Well I have to say I'm disgusted. I have tried and tried and it simply doesn't work. Can you restore my faith in Adobe and tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Answer:
I find it interesting that your right-clicks don't work. With the exception of forgetting to deselect Accessibility, I cannot get the right-click feature to fail. However, from what I'm seeing on the Adobe Captivate forums, other people are as frustrated by the right-click feature as you are. Check out these two forum posts (perhaps they will give some things to try that you haven't already).
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