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C2005 - Why does my external media get loaded so slowly in my packaged files? by - Joseph Ganci The best way to fix
this is to make sure that the paths to your external media are all relative
to your Authorware file. For instance, place all your media files in a subfolder
to your file called Media. Then, when you link to your external files, the
path should default to .\subfolder so that everything is relative to your
file. If you've already linked all your files, move them all into a subfolder
called Media, then use the External Media Browser to change the path for each
media element to the subfolder. Use the subfolder under your packaged file
as well and you should have no trouble with Authorware finding your external
files quickly. One of the big
reasons why external media, libraries, external functions, or
other such files can load so slowly is if they originally were loaded
from a network drive or from a drive letter that does not exist on the
machine that is running the packaged file. For instance, if you loaded
a graphic file from your F: drive, and there is no F: drive on the delivery
platform, or if it had been loaded from \\myserver\\mydirectory\\myfile, and
that server or directory does not exist on the delivery platform, Authorware
will wait until the normal network timeout reports that the server or directory
does not exist. On some networks, this could mean a 30 to 60 second wait for
every item needed! |