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martyndds
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August 17, 2010
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WHERE ARE TEMPLATES STORED ON MAC

  • August 17, 2010
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Where are Captivate templates stored on Macs?  I have an ongoing issue that still isn't resolved i.e. I can't access captivate after installing it and I'm wondering if this may be connected.  I cannot find any templates on my Mac for captivate, when I try and open a new project 'From Template' it simply opens the my documents folder and even though I've looked for a '.cptl' I cannot find any.

Am I being simple or should there be some file in this format somewhere on my hard drive if Captivate has installed properly

Any help on this and of course my original posting would be greatly appreciated

Kind regards

Martyn

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taber616-IaG7vy
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August 22, 2010

I have not found any .cptl files installed on my Mac. I did create one that I had someone helping me use. Unfortunately, she keep saving it as a template and in doing such, create a bigger mess down the road.

The issues I had with using them created such 'challenges' i have steered away from using them. The potential for goodness was there, but it made more work for me in the long run.

The template made 'ghost' slides in our projects and were a pain to find to remove. I basically looked for images or video in the library that had duplicates and then it deleted it from the library. In doing such, it showed the template slide. I was then able to hit the delete key to remove it. And then 50 or so others. Doing this, it dropped the Captivate file down to a third of the size since I was able to finally get rid of all the hidden stuff.

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martynddsAuthor
Participating Frequently
August 22, 2010

Thank you for your response.  Although not quite fully answering my question I feel you've potentially saved me a lot of grief and misery... not to mention a lot of wasted time and for that I'm very grateful.

I'm a new user and a lot of this is going over my head so am grateful for your advice

Kind regards

Martyn

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