Missing xpj file

Hello again

From what you are showing it would appear that possibly things are a bit messed up. Please allow me to explain.

When you work with RoboHelp, it's similar to working in your kitchen. You have all the tools needed to mix ingredients together to make recipes. The ingredients are the raw materials. (Flour, Eggs, etc) In RoboHelp, the "raw ingredients" are the HTM files, Images, Videos and other items that constitute the project. Once you are ready, you create that final output. In the real world, you might combine ingredients into cookie dough and bake the cookies to end up with cookies you might sell or eat. In RoboHelp, you tell it to generate your output. That final output is like baked chocolate chip cookies. The baked cookies are chemically different than the raw cookie dough.

So what I'm seeing are files that are part of a project and files that are likely output files. In other words, you are showing us one bowl with baked cookies and another with raw cookie dough.

I've annotated your image a bit to try and explain.

The folders in ( 1 ) the whdata, whgdata, and whdata are typically only found among the output files. It's surprising to see them in the list on the right. More about that later.

The folder in ( 2 ) named !SSL! is normally found in the source location. That folder typically contains other folders where the actual output files are found. So those folders in ( 1 ) really should only be in the output folder(s) you see inside this folder.

The file in ( 3 ) is the XPJ file. Your Windows Explorer is configured to hide known file extensions so you don't see the actual XPJ file extension. But that's what that file is.

That process of creating output from RoboHelp adds all sorts of JavaScript code to each topic. So my own guess is that if you opened any of the files on the left side using Windows Notepad, you would see all sorts of script references in them. An example is below:

All those script references should only ever be found in an output file, because the process of creating the output adds them in.

Now I mentioned earlier that I'd talk more about the three wh folders. It's likely you will find that even though you are looking at what should be SOURCE topics, they will have these script references. And that's because at some point, somewhere along the line someone took an OUTPUT file (a baked chocolate chip cookie) and crumbled it back up and mixed it into the raw cookie dough! Meaning that someone copied an output file back into the project as if it were a source file.

That likely means you have some significant clean up work to do. All those script references need to be cleaned out in order to get things back to normal. And if that's the case (we don't know for certain until you do some research) you will likely need to either follow the steps outlined in the link below:

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Or purchase a script from Willam van Weelden‌ to automate things.

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So you have some detective work to do and some decisions to make!

Cheers... Rick

Oh, and the XPJ is the main project database file. It's the main file used while you are editing a project. It's not a file that is "generated" at the time you create output.

Cheers... Rick