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Scott_Huerta
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November 20, 2013
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Discrepancy between Book Content (TOC) between RoboHelp Explorer & CNT/HLP Generated

  • November 20, 2013
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I've got an old WinHelp4 project that has been neglected for years and now we are trying to bring it current.

I've deleted the old TOC it had and created a new one with just a couple of entries to start with (just to make sure everything gets put together ok).  I've run into an odd thing.  After generating the help files, if I click on the button to "Review Primary Layout" or generate the help file and click on "View Result" I get the old version of the TOC.  That is, 10 books in the Contents Tab window.  If I double click in Windows Explorer on the actual generated .hlp file I get the correct Contents.

It appears to me that RoboHelp is "remembering" something that deleting and recreating the TOC did not reset.  I went trough all of the files that I saw for the RH project but didn't see anything that had the old book names in them.

I'm using RH for Word 10.0 on Win7 Pro (64-bit).

This is w WinHelp4 project.  The plan is to move to HTML.  But can't do it now.

Where is this information coming from?

Any and all help is appreciated.

TIA

Scott

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Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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November 20, 2013

Hi Scott

So what is life like in the days of assembling pyramids?

Sorry, couldn't resist teasing you a bit on your using RoboHelp for Word.

My thought here is that you need to ensure you scrub the system of any old files lurking about. We see the same thing from time to time over in the world of RoboHelp HTML where folks insist RoboHelp is "remembering" old stuff. Only to discover later that for whatever reason, they had forgotten about this file over here. Once they deleted all traces of the old output, voila! The new content begins "magickally" appearing!

Cheers... Rick

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Scott_HuertaAuthor
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November 20, 2013

Hi Rick,

Thanks for the quick reply.  Yes working with RoboHelp for Word is a bit frustrating when you know better things are available.  Hopefully this project will be converted to HTML sometime next year.  But for now, it is what it is.

I backed up my project folder (including all subfolders) and deleted everything except for the .cnt, .doc &.hpj files.  This did not resolve the issue.  Where else would something like this be stored?  I even deleted the .cnt file after that and am still getting the obsolete TOC.

Any other ideas and/or thoughts?

Thanks

Scott

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 21, 2013

I'd be looking all over my hard drive as well as in any network locations. Sorry I can't be more specific than that.

I suppose to confirm whether this is the issue, I'd also try renaming the project so the output files are different.

Cheers... Rick


Didn't HLP create some other file in the same folder that needs to be trashed?

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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