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Recovering from blank cp after crash
I just have to share this - may not work for everyone, but
it's worth a shot
This morning had Captivate hang during a recording. Ended the program via Task Manager, opened cp file and found the common problem of a single blank slide. Now I save religously every 5 minutes, only ever work on a local drive (which is backed up daily) and save directly to the hard drive (no profiles here thank you very much LOL). Of course today I lost 2 hours of a new cp file created today, with a looming deadline, which is why the system crashed - why crash when there will be no havoc caused??
So, after searching here and finding many others with this problem, but no solution but to start again, I did just that. I'm currently using a template for this project and when I went to create a new project, in the Template list, no templates were displayed (usually there are 2 listed). Very strange. So I restarted the computer.
Once I had logged back in and opened Captivate, I opened the previously blank cp file, in the vain hope that it would have miraculously has recovered the lost work. And it had!! Back to my last save (so basically I had lost 2 minutes of recording time, rather than 2 hours of development/writing time).
So the moral to this long winded story is - if you have a similar crash/blank cp problem, try restarting your computer and then reopening the blank cp file. if it does recover, do a Save as and make sure it's saving locally 🐵 I also didn't save the blank cp whenever it prompted when to after I had opened it the first time (not sure it may overwrite your hidden slides with blank ones).
Just thought I'd share the news and provide some hope to other frustrated Captivate users
Cheers
Beck
This morning had Captivate hang during a recording. Ended the program via Task Manager, opened cp file and found the common problem of a single blank slide. Now I save religously every 5 minutes, only ever work on a local drive (which is backed up daily) and save directly to the hard drive (no profiles here thank you very much LOL). Of course today I lost 2 hours of a new cp file created today, with a looming deadline, which is why the system crashed - why crash when there will be no havoc caused??
So, after searching here and finding many others with this problem, but no solution but to start again, I did just that. I'm currently using a template for this project and when I went to create a new project, in the Template list, no templates were displayed (usually there are 2 listed). Very strange. So I restarted the computer.
Once I had logged back in and opened Captivate, I opened the previously blank cp file, in the vain hope that it would have miraculously has recovered the lost work. And it had!! Back to my last save (so basically I had lost 2 minutes of recording time, rather than 2 hours of development/writing time).
So the moral to this long winded story is - if you have a similar crash/blank cp problem, try restarting your computer and then reopening the blank cp file. if it does recover, do a Save as and make sure it's saving locally 🐵 I also didn't save the blank cp whenever it prompted when to after I had opened it the first time (not sure it may overwrite your hidden slides with blank ones).
Just thought I'd share the news and provide some hope to other frustrated Captivate users
Cheers
Beck
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