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Alexandra Duffy
Inspiring
April 12, 2016
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Book update error: Book is not self-consistent

  • April 12, 2016
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Hello,

I'm using FM2015, and I have a large unstructured book with about 70 chapters. I updated the book and saw an error message I have never seen before: "Book is not self-consistent." I searched the obvious locations to try to figure this out but couldn't find any information. The book seems to be functioning fine.

Does anyone know what this message means?
Thanks!
Alexandra Duffy

Lead Technical Writer

Vectorworks, Inc.

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Correct answer Alexandra Duffy

Hi All,

I am able to get books from Navena and Tom and we are working on this issue on priority. We are able to see the error message too.

If anyone has encountered a crasher or has a crash log, please do share with me.

Thanks

Kunal


Hello Everyone,

There was a new FM update this morning - 13.03.495. This solved the issue for me... no more "book is not self-consistent" error message when updating the book.

Thanks very much, Adobe Tech Comm team!
Alexandra

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Inspiring
July 22, 2022

I had the same error. I discovered that I still had track changes on. Turn it off and try to update your book.

    BillP0311
    BillP0311
    Participating Frequently
    May 31, 2023

    Using FM17 and had this happen for the first time today. Disabling Track Edits allowed me to update the book without issue. I have over 150 different FM files and this is the only one it's happened with (so far). Thanks for posting a suggested resolution! 

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    Todd Bersley
    Participant
    April 15, 2016

    Has Adobe confirmed that this is a bug? I also updated FrameMaker 2015 to version 13.0.3.494 a few days ago and now I'm getting this "book is not self-consistent" error.

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    Anonymous
    April 14, 2016

    The same thing happens to me, updating generates this error. I wish I could send in my work for a data point, but I'm bound by NDA.

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    Alexandra DuffyAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2016

    As an update, I did finally find some info here on the forum from 2009. But, none of our x-refs are broken, the book wasn't changing as I updated it, and I am not using structured. So I'm still puzzled by this message. There are no other errors for the book.

    Alexandra

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 12, 2016

    You saw - https://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/msg27143.html & https://forums.adobe.com/thread/460243 ?

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    Alexandra DuffyAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2016

    Yes, I did see these posts. In my case, I'm not using Track Changes, and not creating an Index. I am creating a TOC; however, it generates properly and there's no crash. I will try removing the TOC and creating a new TOC file. I can't do this until later today. Will post my results.

    Thanks,

    Alexandra

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