Need to copy files from slooooowwww server

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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

Community Expert

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.

nancy33534756Author

Inspiring

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?

Captiv8r

Legend

I am somewhat confused by this question. How did we get from downloading a bunch of files to decompiling a CHM? CHM is an output and it's not an easy package as it requires cleanup if you want to turn that into a source project.

From what I've seen in this thread, I would probably just zip up everything to begin with and get a local copy. And take it from there on.

If you want to clean up a project, RoboHelp has reports, but they are incomplete and may require a lot of manual work. I do have a few scripts that can help cleaning up:

Remove unused images (free): https://www.helpessentials.com/downloads/image-clean-up/
Get a report of all uses of baggage files (free): https://www.helpessentials.com/downloads/baggage-file-report/
Order images and copy them to the same folder as the topic they are used in (paid): https://www.helpessentials.com/downloads/image-mover/
Turn an output, such as CHM, into a RoboHelp project (paid): https://www.helpessentials.com/downloads/robohelp-recovery-scripts/

Willam, here is my thought process on this. As far as images go, a CHM file should only contain images actually used, no? And images inside a CHM file should be no different than images inside a project, right? So if one had a swarm of images in my project location and roughly half of them were unused, my thought was that one could create the CHM, decompile to a different folder, blitz all the images in the source project, (or most likely move them to a folder named Justin) then copy the images from the CHM to the project location to solve that particular issue.

Sure, not as fancy as a script. But if you don't have six months to learn how to work with the scripting and become proficient, better than nothing, eh?

As for the HTML topics, my same thought pattern would apply to them too. Mostly things would be intact. The only issue I might fathom would be things like Master Pages, Snippets and Conditional Build Tags.

Cheers... Rick

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