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GBayl
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January 12, 2017
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My Documents folder overwhelmed with .cpd files.

  • January 12, 2017
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I'm running Captivate 6 on windows 7 64 bit.  I have over 74,000 files in the My Documents folder.  Most of them are dataxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.cpd files. Where do these files come from?   Can they be stored somewhere other that in My Documents?

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    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    January 12, 2017

    Those files normally reside in the folder nominated as your Project Cache folder.  By default this is set to be inside My Documents, but you can specify any other folder location on your system.  I usually recommend creating a couple of folders at the C: level of your hard drive.  One is your Project Cache and the other will serve as your Project Publish output folder.

    To change Captivate's settings to point to these new locations, open up Captivate and go to Edit > Preferences > General > Default Locations.  You'll see a couple of fields there you can use.

    If you normally publish to SWF output, you will also need to set up the new Publish location as a trusted location in your Flash Player Global Security settings otherwise the output might not play as expected sometiemes.

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    GBaylAuthor
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    January 26, 2017

    Hi Rod,

    Thanks for your reply.  I looked inside my Captivate 7 and the Project Cache and Publish folders are where you say they should be.  So why are the 59,000 .cpd files in the root of the My Documents folder mixed in with my other documents?  There are also 5,051 .stp files, and 4,374 .as files.  They are not in the C:\Users\gbayley\My Documents, but they are in the Libraries\Documents\My Documents folder.  It renders that folder useless because there is so much of this junk in it.

    gb

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    January 27, 2017

    Can you show us a screenshot of the Default Locations screen from your Preferences in Captivate?

    If you are seeing thousands of .cpd files at the root level of your My Documents folder then I cannot see how your default locations would be set up properly. 

    Check the Create Date on those .cpd files.  You may find that these are actually relics from some previous setup of the Default Locations and could be deleted without issue. 

    A CPD file is a compressed date file that would normally be buried several layers down inside a cache folder for a specific CPTX project file.  If all of your CPD files from different projects are showing up in exactly the same folder that would be extremely unusual.

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