Compressed Data Files - Captivate 5.5

Question

I upgraded from Captivate 4 to Captivate 5.5 in the past few months. When working with the Captivate files, I work with them off of a local drive. I've noticed in the past few weeks that when I open a Captivate file, Captivate creates another folder on my local drive with compressed data, and this folder contains compressed data, objects, and uncompressed data .cpd files. When I archive these files, they don't seem to affect me being able to open the .cptx file.

So, my thought is that I am OK to delete these files. I'm wondering if anyone could help me out though to tell me if I am correct with thinking that I don't need these files, and I can just delete them? And, if I don't need them, can I change a setting in Captivate to stop them from generating? If I do need them, can I change a setting in Captivate to specify where they should be saved?

AndyKingInOC · Accepted Answer

that looks like the project cache files.

You can change its location in Edit > Preferences > General Settings

as an example, mine is: C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\My Documents\Adobe Captivate Cached Projects

AndyKingInOC · Answer

the .cptx file itself is a compressed archive that stores all the assets for your project in that same .cpd extension. What is the folder and path name where these new files are showing up?

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