Should I track trcss and trvset files in RH 9?

[Jared Hess]

Hi all,

We recently upgraded to RH 9 from RH 7. I see these two file types in RH 9 that I'm not sure what they are/do. .trcss and .trvset. Do they need to be tracked in our source control system? Or should they be ignored? We're using mercurial for our source countrol sytem. I also see files with dollar signs in their files names showing up temproarily--so I'm assuming those are just temporary files and can be ignored.

Thanks in advance

Jared

[Peter Grainge]

They are not files that I can recall having seen in any RoboHelp project so I am thinking they are related to source control or something else in your environment. Can you open one in a text editor to get any clues?

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[Jared Hess]

Thanks Peter. I didn't think to check that. I'll do some digging and find out.

[Jared Hess]

Alright. I asked our mercurial know-it-alls if this was part of our source control and they said it wasn't:

"Those don’t look like any mercurial file that I know of.  I’m pretty sure that anything mercurial related will begin with a ‘.’ character and be stored in the root folder of the repository."

Looking at my RH project's directory I see this:

There are a lot of file types there that I don't recognize:

.trb, .trcss, .trf, .tfglol, .tridxl, .trk, .trl, .trs, .trt, .tctocl, .trvset

Are some of these from RH 9? Anyone else see these file types in your RH 9 projects?

I'm focusing on these .trcss and .trvset since detected as "new" files by our source control tool.

The .trcss file in a text editor just contains the name of the css file used in my project:

The .trvset is empty:

A google search on these doesn't yield good results either. Any other suggestions?

[Peter Grainge]

Adobe advise me

"These  are temporary files created at the time of generation/opening SSL  dialog. They should not go to Version Control. They get deleted  automatically."

I don't know how they have remained on your system but it is safe to remove them from your project.

Open one of the sample projects, generate from one of the layouts and then close the project. See if any of these files are present then.

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[Jared Hess]

Peter. Thanks for the information. I did a test using the demo EmployeeCare project and don't see these temporary files.

One additional question:

Are all of these file types temporary files?Or just the two I originally mentioned (trcss and trvset)?

.trb, .trcss, .trf, .tfglol, .tridxl, .trk, .trl, .trs, .trt, .tctocl, .trvset

Thanks again.

[Peter Grainge]

My understanding is that it is all of them. Create a backup just in case.

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