Robohelp 2020 - Stuck At Indexing references

Thanks so much for all your help so far. I'll give this a try and see what I come up with.

This is a troublesome project but after a couple of hours I have some idea of where the problems are.

Follow these steps.

1. Create a brand new project. Do not be tempted to reuse an existing project.
2. Rename the default.css file to default01.css or something so that no default.css is found in the next steps.
3. In the Contents panel right click and select Import Folder.
4. Navigate to your main project and import only the Introduction folders.
5. In the TOC drag that folder to the TOC.
6. Set up the responsive preset and use your usual default topic.
7. Generate and it should work. 
8. Repeat steps 4 to 7 for each folder.
   Do not import more than one folder at a time.
   Do not import the Part Level folder.
   Generate after each import.
9. You should find you can still generate. The styles will be wrong and there will be no images but it will generate.
10. Create a copy of the project as it is now and zip it. You will likely need to come back to this stage of the rebuild.

Now at this point no topic has a CSS applied as they are pointing to default.css and in Step 2 we made sure that doesn't exist.

What I have tried is then:-

1. Adding the Part Level folder. Project no longer generates.
2. Adding back default.css and your other CSS files. Project no longer generates.
3. Ading back the images in the assets folder. Project no longer generates.

Now it might be that adding those things back in a different order will establish which one is the problem. It could of course be any one, any two or all three. The important thing is without those it generated in a new project.

Whilst you said responsive did generate notwithstanding the message, I got to that point but found search did not work. Maybe other things too.

I will look some more when I can but hopefully that will help get you back a working project.

OK. Let's see what some more poking around tomorrow finds.

I thought you might be onto something but that did not work.

Everything I have tried so far has failed but I can look some more tomorrow. Meantime there is one more thing you could try.

Use File Explorer to duplicate your working project. In the duplicate and still in File Explorer delete everything in the Contents folder and then copy across the same folder from the rogue project.

Open the duplicate and create a new preset. Does it then generate?

I have sent it over to you. Thanks for the help.

So we have ruled out:-

• Topic code as the same code generates in a new project.
• CSS as the same CSS works in a new project.
• Master page applying a different CSS as there is no master page.
• A corrupt preset.

Running out of ideas. Can you share the project? If you can, then see the Contact page on my site and send the project as instructed there. Do make sure you include a link to this thread and please do not email the project direct.

No Master Pages.

A New (not a duplicate) Preset was one of the first things I tried before posting up here.

OK so we now know it is not the topics or the CSS. It could be the TOC or it could be the Preset.

Try creating a new preset first and not a duplicate.

Any master pages involved?