HELP! FM8.0 MIF Exported File Contains "old" text - why?

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November 15, 2011
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I am using FM 8.

I exported my fm documents to a MIF file.

Why are there "old" text and cross-references in there that you do not see when working in the *.fm doc uments and book?

Need answer ASAP!

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Bob_Niland

Community Expert

Are you refering perhaps to MIF markups like:
<XRefSrcText `72317: OldPgfFmtName: Old Paragraph Content'>

Some auto-created Frame marker data structures include the paragraph format and content at the time of original marker and xref creation. This data is often never updated when the target format and/or content later change. It can hang around, mostly harmlessly, forever.

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intj57Author

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For example if I see a cross reference to a Figure for technical documentation I wrote years back, that was deleted from the document and I still see the Figure Title and it is old and shouldn't be there.

The figure text was not auto-created. Just the figure number was auto created.

My document is unstructured and we upgraded from FM7 to FM8 at one point.

I have to export my *.fm Files to *.MIF files so they are text and can be scanned before they go out to the customer.

Bob_Niland

Community Expert

For example if I see a cross reference to a Figure for technical documentation I wrote years back, that was deleted from the document and I still see the Figure Title and it is old and shouldn't be there.

Frame doesn't understand "shouldn't". The MIF markeup often contains the original text, which could be a prior revision, rough draft or informal placeholder text.

I have to export my *.fm Files to *.MIF files so they are text and can be scanned before they go out to the customer.

Then extra care is required.

As I said earlier: "It can hang around, mostly harmlessly, forever."

In a more sobering scenario, document metadata, like MIF markeups, can be subject to Discovery in lawsuits, and could become evidence in a criminal case.

Suppose you needed a cross-reference to some text not yet crafted, and at the target location used a placeholder paragraph saying:

"Client's hopelessly inadequate safety warning goes here."

Later you changed that to:
"To avoid oil platform self-destruct, be sure to ..."

Guess what's memorialized in the MIF?

_______

The above is not formal legal advice.

Barratries not included.

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