Adobe Captivate 7 Bug Workaround For the Spell-Check Crash

If you're using Adobe Captivate 7 for the Macintosh, it's possible you've been bitten by the spell-check bug... Captivate 7 crashes when you choose Project > Check Spelling.

I've learned that the crash does not occur if you already have Captivate 6 installed on your Macintosh (or you own another CS6 application). Of course, if you don't have the older version of Captivate, and find that your Captivate 7 software is crashing, follow this workaround. (I'm hoping that Adobe will release a patch sooner rather than later... until then, these steps will do the trick.)

Note: The spell check crash/bug only affects Mac users. Windows users... see ya.

Part 1

1. Close Captivate.
2. Choose Go > Go to Folder.
3. Type/Library/Application Support/Adobe
4. Click the Go button
5. Create a new folder and name it Linguistics.
6. Inside the Linguistics folder, create another folder and name it 6.0. (Open the 6.0 folder and leave it open until the end of Part 2.)

Part 2

1. Open new finder window (File > New Finder Window)
2. Choose Go > Go to Folder.
3. Type /Applications/Adobe Captivate 7/required/Plug-Ins/mac/Linguistics
4. Click the Go button.
5. Select the folders LanguageNames2 and Providers and copy them to your clipboard.
6. Go back to the 6.0 folder you created earlier and paste the folders within the 6.0 folder.
7. Restart Captivate and run the Spell Check command. (The spell check feature should work as expected this time... goodbye crash!)

Comments

[Say]

Thank you! Your fix worked like a charm. (I love smart people who share.) ;)

[Michael Banyard]

Lost two hours of work due to this bug, but that won't happen again thanks to your fix! Awesome!