Adobe Presenter deletes Articulate Presenter project files??
6 Comments Dave blogged on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 5:02 PM.
Ok, spent the last day and a half chasing around this very nasty bug in Adobe Presenter 6.1 and felt compeled to blog about it.
I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the SWFs and FLVs that I had inserted via Articulate Presenter were magically getting deleted from my system. It turned out that the system I was using also had Adobe Presenter 6.1 installed on it. Even after removing Articulate Presenter, Adobe Presenter still continued to delete my non-Adobe Presenter project files.
See the steps and screen grabs below for a step-by-step account of what happens.
1. Install Articulate Presenter 5
2. Create a new PowerPoint presentation
3. Insert a SWF via Articulate Presenter
4. Notice this project folder is created
5. Notice the project folder contains the SWF I inserted
6. I uninstalled Articulate Presenter
7. Verified the SWF I inserted was still in the project folder
8. I installed Adobe Presenter
9. Hit Save in PowerPoint
10. AHHHHHH...Notice my SWF just disappeared from my Articulate Presenter project folder
I couldn't for the life of me figure out why the SWFs and FLVs that I had inserted via Articulate Presenter were magically getting deleted from my system. It turned out that the system I was using also had Adobe Presenter 6.1 installed on it. Even after removing Articulate Presenter, Adobe Presenter still continued to delete my non-Adobe Presenter project files.
See the steps and screen grabs below for a step-by-step account of what happens.
1. Install Articulate Presenter 5
2. Create a new PowerPoint presentation
3. Insert a SWF via Articulate Presenter
4. Notice this project folder is created
5. Notice the project folder contains the SWF I inserted
6. I uninstalled Articulate Presenter
7. Verified the SWF I inserted was still in the project folder
8. I installed Adobe Presenter
9. Hit Save in PowerPoint
10. AHHHHHH...Notice my SWF just disappeared from my Articulate Presenter project folder
In case you are wondering, this only seems to happen when you have Adobe Presenter on your system, and I am not really sure what versions of Adobe Presenter are affected.
So, if you have wondered why files seem to mysteriously get deleted from your system, you might want to check and make sure that Adobe Presenter did not delete them.
Note: I kid you not, this really happens, and I know a lot of potential customers of ours and Adobes might trial both products, so if you decided to purchase our software, I would strongly suggest uninstalling Adobe Presenter if you ever had it installed.
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