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August 19, 2011
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Should long path names be avoided?

  • August 19, 2011
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Is there a reason why help projects should be located in the hard drive's file structure such that they have particularly short path names?  Is seems to me I read that somwhere, and I noticed that our developer put a previous help project right in the root directory.  We use the Eclipse IDE and CVS for source control, does that have any bearing?

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Jeff_Coatsworth
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Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
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August 19, 2011

Best practices dictates that RH projects should be located in a C:\Projects\\ folder on your hard drive.

Peter Grainge
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Peter GraingeCommunity Expert
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August 19, 2011

The location and path length are separate issues. RoboHelp projects must be on the hard drive. Path length is a Windows limitation and it can get too long if your project is in your profile. In addition to the folders and files in the project, they are all prefixed with C:\users\yourname etc.

Maybe it is the output the developer is moving or maybe it is to do with it being picked up by source control. Otherwise I don't know why they would move your source project.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

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