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File Management / Version Control

Community Beginner ,
Dec 03, 2024 Dec 03, 2024

What is everyone using to manage all their Captivate 12 Files and associated files (audio, video, graphics, etc)?   We have had issues with Cloud Drives corrupting files, but we definitely need a way to collaborate on content creation. 

 

We have had problems with OneDrive and GDrive. 

 

I was thinking about using GitHub...  but I was curious what other folks might be doing to keep files properly organized and have some sensible version control.

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Contributor ,
Dec 04, 2024 Dec 04, 2024

I'll take some time to write up what we do here at the college.  I'll share my two cents after I get things written up.  Great question, and love to be part of this discussion. 

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Community Expert ,
Dec 06, 2024 Dec 06, 2024
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Basically, if you want to avoid issues with file corruption, have your files stored somewhere that requires Check-out and Check-in so that no two developers will ever be able to work on the same file at the same time.  Each person that needs to touch and edit the project file has to check it out and download it to their own computer hard drive, then save changes and upload it back to the repository before checking it in again.  Never work on a Captivate project file over a cloud connection.  The CPTX (and I suspect CP is the same) file format is really just a renamed ZIP archive.  When Captivate is working on it there may be hundreds of small files involved.  Having more than one person involved in the editing is asking for problems.

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