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February 22, 2010
Question

RH8 lost its mind; doesn't know how to open a topic file

  • February 22, 2010
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RH8 (8.0.2.208) "suddenly" stopped allowing me to open topics by clicking them!!!!!!!

In the Project Manager or in the TOC, I can double-click a topic, or I can right-click a topic and pick edit, all to no avail.

The only way to get the topic open is to go into the Project Manager, right-click, and pick Edit With -> Design View.

Then I can work. My project files seem to be intact.

This could kill me, though.

WHERE inside of RH8 is there some kind of "file assciation", and/or how the heck could RH8 have forgotten how to open a topic file?

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    February 22, 2010

    Hi Bruce:

    Open RoboHelp, go to Tools->Options and click the Associations tab. Does the Path for HTML View and Design View say <Internal>. If yes, then is the Auto-selct Editor radio button checked? Try that.

    Thanks,
    K

    February 22, 2010

    Everything was set as your suggested, so I set it one way and then the original way, and now ALL IS WELL.

    Thank you immensely.

    -Bruce

    Captiv8r
    Legend
    February 23, 2010

    For anyone that is interested in this, I have a brief video on how it's done at the link below:

    Click here to view

    Cheers... Rick

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