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May 26, 2010
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Why does Robohelp want to edit the rhextdocauxdata.apj file?

  • May 26, 2010
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We have a group of five writers working on a single Help project. Whenever one particular writer works on the Help project, RoboHelp asks to edit the rhextdocauxdata.apj file (it returns the message, To execute the selected action, the files in the list below need to be writable). This does not happen to any of the other writers working on the same project. Does anyone know whey Robohelp would want this particular writer to update this file? We are on Robohelp 8. The source files are in TFS, but we have not integrated RoboHelp with TFS--we check files out before editing in RoboHelp.

We don't have any links to Frame documents, which is what I think this file tracks, and the file is empty:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rhpml majorversion="3" minorversion="0">
<FMDocs/>
</rhpml>

Thanks for any responses,

Tim Schuman

Advent Software, Inc.

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RoboColum_n_
Legend
May 27, 2010

Hi Tim.

If you have no linked FM files in your project, my guess is that the rhextdocauxdata.apj file appears in the Unused Files report. If so, it can be safely deleted.


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May 27, 2010

Thanks. Funny thing is that it is appearing as a used file in Robohelp.

However we don't link anything from Frame.

When I delelte the file, Robohelp creates a new version when I reopen the project again?

Captiv8r
Legend
May 27, 2010

Hi there

What happens if you close the project, clobber the .CPD and re-open the project? Does it still ask for the file?

You have stated that you have different authors working on the same project. Are they all in it simultaneously? Or does each author have his/her own section or different project that is later merged to present as a complete picture?

Cheers... Rick

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