Can I import a RH 7 project into RH 10?

Question

I have RH 7 and am about to upgrade to RH 10.

It's just occurred to me that my existing projects might not upgrade.

Are there any known issues with this and if so are there any workarounds?

I'm only really upgrading as I now have Windows 7 and so can no longer use RH 7.

Authorgirl · Accepted Answer

Thanks Peter. I've just tried that and it does indeed give me a TOC but it's an old one. I've made quite a few changes since (in RH7) so it looks as though the backup hadn't been updated.

Is there a way of manually creating/updating a backup TOC file? If so I could do that in RH7 then do this process again.

OK, I have a solution.

I created a second TOC in the upgraded project and set it to copy from the latest RH7 HHC file. It didn't seem to mind that this file is a pre-upgrade one.

I then made this TOC the default and deleted the empty one.

Thanks Peter!

Peter Grainge · Answer

In most respects the upgrade should go smoothly but do make a zipped backup first. I always advocate zipping it as that stops you accidentally opening the project in any version of Rh and ensures it is always available as a backup.

The one wrinkle is lists. The way they work changed in Rh8. Whether or not it affects you will depend on how your lists were coded. See Lists on my site for information about that.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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