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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
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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

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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December 14, 2011

Thank you, Peter,

I am happy to share. Download from:

### Link removed after downloading ###

The file is about 50MB.

To see the problem, rename the .CPD file, so RoboHelp will create a new one. Don't delete it as you might want to restore it.

Open the project and play around for a few minutes. It sometimes takes about 5 minutes for the problem to manifest itself. I don't know exactly what triggers it.

~Margaret


Margaret

I have removed the link as I have downloaded the file. I will look at it tomorrow.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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