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BobatTyson
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October 21, 2009
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Changing the Default Save location in Cap4

  • October 21, 2009
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I know its possible to change the publish folder (Edit > Preferences) but what about the default Save location? Any clue how to change that from My Documents?

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    Captiv8r
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    October 21, 2009

    Hi there

    It's been my experience that although the original save location is configured for the My Documents folder, once you deviate from that to a different location it remains at the new location until it's changed again.

    I believe this is one of the preferences saved in the hidden and behind the scenes .DAT file Captivate uses.

    Cheers... Rick

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    BobatTysonAuthor
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    October 21, 2009

    True, I was thinking more of defaulting to a network drive since we have a team of trainers using Captivate. Thanks!

    Captiv8r
    Captiv8r
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    October 21, 2009

    Hi again

    Ouch! Not the network!

    One of the hard learned issues that folks are unaware of until they encounter problems is that Captivate does not do well when a project is stored on a network. It's fine to keep projects there in order to back them up or as a transfer pivot location to allow others to edit, but you never want to open Captivate, click File > Open and browse to a network location to open a project for editing.

    Best practice at this point is to keep projects on your local C drive when you make edits.

    Cheers... Rick

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