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Margaret_Becker
Inspiring
October 5, 2011
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Project hang: 1 second on 3 seconds donut of death RH9

  • October 5, 2011
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My large project has become unusable after deleting cpd file.

My cpd file was becoming quite large (15MB) and my project was slowing down, so I deleted the CPD file and reopened RH9 to regenerate the file. This normally takes about 60-90 minutes, but this time I let it run overnight. Now it is acting like it is still working on this update. When I open the project, I can work fine for about 30 seconds. Then I get an alternating cursor arrow and wait cursor (donut of death): one second for arrow and 3 seconds for donut. This makes it impossible to work.

The CPD file is about 3MB now.

The status bar alternates between "Ready" and "Loading topic list..."

This is a large-ish project with hundreds of topics, images, and snippets, but it has worked fine up until now.

Does anybody have any ideas?

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 5, 2011

Where is this project located & how many topics? 60-90 minutes seems really long!

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Margaret_BeckerAuthor
Inspiring
October 5, 2011

It's all local to my own hard drive.

Windows 7 RH9

2289 topics

1087 snippets

2341 images

Compiled CHM = 19MB

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Margaret_BeckerAuthor
Inspiring
November 1, 2011

Is it misbehaving on the sample projects? If it is, then you know it's something with your install or environment; if it isn't, then it's to do with something in your project.


I'm sure it is something in the project because I have another project that I'm working on that does not have this problem. I just haven't been able to figure out what the problem is.

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