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kevin_stagg
kevin_stagg
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February 26, 2014
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Deleting a Caption Style that Just Won't Go Away...

  • February 26, 2014
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I have created numerous custom caption styles and am using it no problem within my course. I have been able to delete other captions in the past without any issues however there seems to be a "ghosting" of some styles still on my course:

Everything above the transparent textbox style are styles which I have deleted from the Captivate 7 > Gallery > Captions directory (both the .bmp and .fcm files). I have removed those styles from all of my captions within the course slides (and edited the Object Style Editor accordingly). I have closed Captivate, and gone into the Captivate 7 > utils folder and used the CleanPreferencesMac file to clear out any files which may still be in my cache. Not sure what else I need to do here?

Many thanks!

Kevin

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RodWard
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RodWardCommunity Expert
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February 26, 2014

These older captions are cached INSIDE your CPTX project file.  That's why they show up in your list.

Captivate 7.0.1 now has an extra option in Properties > General when you select a caption that allows you to Delete Unused Caption Images.  If you are on Cp7 you might be able to use that.

kevin_stagg
kevin_staggAuthor
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February 26, 2014

Hey there Rod -

Unfortunately it only eliminated one of those - LS blue. As you mentioned before, it must be INSIDE the CPTX file because I did a search on my entire computer and the .bmp and/or .fcm files are nowhere to be found. Looks like the rest of them are stuck there, which stinks, and I'll need to start from scratch. I really wanted to send in a clean theme and one of the other sets has a caption which isn't displaying correctly (but the other 4 in the set are). Again, as you mentioned, an example of the file being cached within the CPTX file.

SIGH. Hide the pencils because I'm about to go postal here.

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