Captivate 6.1 on Mac audio spontaneously reverted to an earlier version of the course

[charliez57575821]

This is the strangest thing I have ever seen as a developer. I developed a course earlier this year that has sat untouched for several months. I recently found some of the hyperlinks in the course had changed and went in to update them. After that the audio had reverted to the previous version, which is wrong. I have to re-record all the voice over.

I had been experiencing lots of Captivate fatal errors and so I renamed the cached projects folder. After the audio reverted to an older version I renamed that folder back to the original name, started Captivate again, and the problem persisted. I never touched the audio tracks at all. I have no idea why or how this could have happened.

[RodWard · Accepted solution]

That bit of information about changing the project cache makes me theorize that somehow an earlier cached version of the course got mixed in when you opened the project to perform edits. 

If you were having lots of issues with errors, perhaps your cache folder had grown too large and needed to be cleaned out rather than having its name changed.  If the folder could not accept more cache files due to some imposed size limit, then that might have contributed to this error where an earlier cache version was used.

Still unusual though.

[charliez57575821]

I think that's as good a hypothesis as we can find. I'm thinking I don't like the old audio track anyway and I have an opportunity to make some other changes so all's good. Thanks!