Why does publishing remove all audio?

For what it's worth, this sounds like the main issue the update to Presenter 7.0.1 fixed. Use the help menu and check for updated option to get it or you can get it from http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4005

Jorma@RealEyes

What a frustration. But, after having this happen a couple times, I found a remedy:

When publishing, presenter creates a file, data, in the same folder where you published. Withing the folder, data, you'll find all of your audio files, named, for example, "a24x1x1", "a24x2x1", etc.

Here's what you do: Using "Insert" from the PowerPoint menu bar (not Presenter menu, but PowerPoint menu; important), insert each sound into its respective appropriate slide, one by one; selecting "Automatic" when asked when the sound should play each time.

When you are done inserting all of your sounds, now go to the Presenter options. From their click the import sounds icon (near the microphone button). When the dialogue box opens, choose "Import sounds from slides". Click Okay in the next dialogue box.

That's it! You tricked Presenter into thinking you were importing embedded sounds from the PowerPoint when, really, it was importing the sounds it had made itself, earlier.

It's tedious, I know. But not nearly tedious as re-recording hours of audio and voice.

Cheers!

We ran into this problem as well. Here is what we did to fix it - publish to C Drive, copy and paste from there to Server page.