Creating Master Project for Merged Help Topics Disappearing

[mdawn0817]

Hello,

I am using RoboHelp 2015 V12.0.4.460

Just today, I've been experiencing problems setting up a Master Project to produce Merged Help for Web Help output. I have a number of topics that I want to list in the Master Project. In Version 1 of my help, it worked just fine. Today when I import the files into the Master Project, I need to rename the topics. Things were going fine and then I noticed after adding about 10 new topics, that some were missing. I read of a similar issue on the forum and followed the instructions:

• Add a Temp folder
• Saved
• Compiled

Even more topics are now missing. I looked in Broken Links: not there. I also looked in IE, and found several of the topics listed outside the folder, but in the project. When I rename them and put them in the proper folder, they continue to disappear.

I've been having trouble with another completely different project with it becoming corrupted when I create the Web Help output.

I thought about Updates, since I have not applied any.

I'm wondering if something on my laptop is causing the problem, except that other projects are working fine.

Thanks in advance for your help.

MDawn

[Peter Grainge]

You say other projects are working fine but you also say you are having trouble with a different project.

Have you tried deleting the CPD to see if they reappear. That should be safe but given the issues you are having, I would create a backup first. I always recommend creating the backup as a zip file. That prevents you opening it accidentally and working on it before you realise it was the backup. This way you always have a clean backup that can be used to create a new clean copy time after time.

You say you read a similar issue. Can you post a link to that?

If deleting the CPD and tidying up once does not solve the problem, create a new project and import the topics into that. Does that work OK?

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[mdawn0817]

I found that when I renamed the topics after I imported them, the Topic Title was renamed, but the File Name was not. After I went through each file and made sure both the Topic Title and the File Name were renamed properly, the problem was solved.