RoboHelp11 is crashing very often

[bogaem]

Hi,

I am doing some work in my projects consisting of moving pictures and reassigning them in the projects, and RoboHelp is crashing very often. I have to save my work very often too in order that I do not loose too much of the changes.

I am running RoboHelp on a Windows 7 Professional virtual machine with 8GB of RAM and 2 processors, each with 2 cores. RoboHelp is at its latest update.

Do I have to do any particular tweaking on this machine in order to not have this happen so often?

Thank you.

[Anvinder_Singh]

I think you should try the following :  delete the xpj and the cpd files of the project and then open the project using the hhp file.

Before you do that make sure you have created a back up copy of the project.

[bogaem]

Thank you very much Anvinder for the suggestion, however I have something else to finish right now, and afterwards, I will have to save the project anyways, OK?

Then I will try what you suggested me and let you know how it goes.

[Anvinder_Singh]

Sure, I think this should fix it.

In case if t doesn't, i will explore other options. 

[bogaem]

Thank you very much Anvinder

[bogaem]

The only thing that I do not quite understand is, should I do this for all the projects where I am experiencing this issue?

Because it is happening in all the projects where I was doing this type of operations.

[Anvinder_Singh]

Once you have tried this on a project , it should not  occur again.

Yes i think you need to do this with other projects as well.

[Peter Grainge]

Take a look at Opening Projects on my site to understand the implications

of deleting the xpj file.

[bogaem]

Thank you Peter,

I will give it a shot, and see what happens.

The only thing is that I do not quite understand why 2 projects are affected by the same thing...

[Peter Grainge]

I can only think there is something in your workflow that Rh doesn't like but what it is...

Does it happen if you use the sample projects? Click Open on the RoboHelp Starter page and then click Samples in the ribbon on the left. (Sorry if we've already asked this.)

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@petergrainge

[bogaem]

Till now it happened in all the projects that I was doing that kind of pictures manipulation, i.e. copy the picture from one folder to another folder and reassigning the new location in the project. Both folders were in the project's folder, so nothing on the network or outside the project's folder.

As it happened with all projects that I opened till now, I guess it is an issue related more to RH and not so much to the projects themselves.

I will try eventually to reinstall RH.

[Peter Grainge]

Till now it happened in all the projects that I was doing that kind of pictures manipulation, i.e. copy the picture from one folder to another folder and reassigning the new location in the project.

So you would copy the pictures from a folder in one project to a folder in another project using Windows File Explorer, at which point project 2 would not show them, and then insert the image via the Rh interface, correct?

If so, that should be OK. If you are doing it some other way, please be specific as you have said what you are doing but not the exact steps. That is where I am trying to find some flaw in the workflow.

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@petergrainge

[bogaem]

I imported the project from a Word document, and through the importing process the pictures got scattered all over the project's folder. I just want to have all the pictures in only one folder.

What I am doing is:

1 - double click on the picture that I want moved and then click on the Search button. The search window goes to the folder where I want the pictures to be

2 - go to the folder where the picture is, and cut it

3 - paste it in the search window, and select it

4 - close the picture dialog

5 - go to the next picture

The crashing happens usually at step 3 or 4.

I hope this is clear enough.

[Peter Grainge]

Sorry for the delay. Dealing with some family matters.

To be honest, I am not following what you are doing. Double clicking in what program and how does that open a Search window?

Search window where?

Some screenshots would certainly help.

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@petergrainge

[bogaem]

For more clarity:

1 - double click on the picture that I want moved in the topic in RoboHelp and then click on the Search button from the dialog that opened (try double clicking on a picture from a topic). The search window goes to the folder where I want the pictures to be

2 - go to the folder where the picture is, and cut it

3 - paste it in the search window, and select it

4 - close the picture dialog

5 - go to the next picture

Anyway, I reinstalled RoboHelp on that machine, and hope it will not happen again.

Unfortunately I finished the transfer of pictures, so I doubt that I will have that behavior too soon.