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nancy33534756
nancy33534756
Inspiring
November 2, 2016
Question

Need to copy files from slooooowwww server

  • November 2, 2016
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Hi, all.

I need to download HTML Help project files from a slow server through a slow network connection.

Unfortunately, the directory on the server contains every discarded working file, every source file, etc., etc. -- dozens if not hundreds of unnecessary files.

There used to be a way to package just the working project files for a help project -- but waas it maybe ForeHelp that provided such a handy feature?

Anyway, I need to do this now with RoboHelp 11 so I can download just the files needed for my project.

How do I do this?

Thanks!

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
Community Expert
November 2, 2016

Hopefully you've got a folder with the RH project name on it - just zip the folder up & haul it down to your local c:\ drive and unpack it. All links between topics are preserved that way. Then you can start chasing down broken links to other files left behind on the server.

nancy33534756
nancy33534756Author
Inspiring
November 2, 2016

I have a huge folder containing many, many subfolders. I don't see one with the exact project name. Are you saying that there should be such a subfolder, presumably generated by rh?

nancy33534756
nancy33534756Author
Inspiring
November 2, 2016

There is only one way I'm aware of that RoboHelp "neatly packages files". And that is to compile a CHM file.

Hmmm, and in thinking about this, I'm wondering if you might clean things up by taking the following actions.

Compile a CHM file. DE-Compile it to a different folder. Then you could just delete all the images in the project and copy the images found inside the CHM file. The same technique could also be used for the HTML topic pages. Delete all of them in the project folder using Windows Explorer, then copy them from the decompiled CHM file.

I suppose someone really good with scripting such as Willam van Weelden​ might be able to create some script one could run to package up a project. Hopefully he will chime in here and advise.

Cheers... Rick


Very elegant!

I confess, I don't know how to decompile a .chm file. How do you do that?

Thanks.

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