Huge captivate file sizes

I have had issues with file sizes increasing in the past. Through many discussions here on the forums, simply doing a File / Save As and saving the file as another name reduces the file size. Seems to work most of the time when i run into large file sizes.

If file size is the biggest concern, once you've cleared out all items
you don't need any longer, try:
1. Doing a Save As, then a Save As again. Often, for whatever reason,
this finally gets rid of old, unused objects.
2. Create a new project and import the existing project's slides. This
can have the same effect.

In my experience, the first is better for reducing file sizes and the
second is better for getting rid of any playback anomalies.

Otherwise, a better approach for what you're doing, again in my
experience, would be to cut up the audio outside of Captivate into one
file per slide (using a tool like Audacity), import them all into the
library, then add each individually. That's our standard process and
we've yet to experience these huge, bloated CP files (knock, knock).
Erik

luke@nesc wrote:
> I have been using Captivate to imbed an audio recording of a presentation into
> the slides for said presentation. The audio is in the form of one large mp3
> file. When adding the audio, I select the option to distribute over many files,
> and line up all the slides to the correct part of the audio. If i need to edit
> the slide times or audio (this happens frequently because captivate seems to be
> rather buggy when splitting up the single audio track into one for each slide)
> the resulting Captivate Project file rockets in file size. ....

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