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February 11, 2013
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Captivate Demonstration "This project has expired"

  • February 11, 2013
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I created captivate files to embed into my powerpoint presentation, but now they show up as "This project has expired".  Is there any way to update the files with the product key without recreating all of the demonstrations?

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Shekhar_Dhiman
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
February 11, 2013

Hi there,

Welcome to Adobe Forums. Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience.

This is a phenomenon which happens with trial versions of Captivate. If you have a project created in a trial then it is set to expire on the expiration date of that trial. However, if you have a licensed version of Captivate then you have to just open the ".CPTX" file created using the trial in the licensed version and then go to Edit > Preferences > Project > Start and End look for Project Expiry, uncheck that, save you project and publish it again.

See below:

If you do not have a licensed version then you can get a Captivate subscription for a month.

Hope this helps!

Thanks!

February 14, 2013

Thanks for the answers!

In my PowerPoint I have the files saved as .swf and I cannot find the original captivate files.  Is there any way to import the .swf files into captivate and then modify the expiration date?

Thanks again!

-Rob

RodWard
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 14, 2013

Unfortunately no.  SWF is the output format, not the editable source.

If you cannot locate the original source files you may have to just recreate them from scratch.

Lilybiri
Legend
February 11, 2013

You only have to republish the files again with a licensed version,

Lilybiri