How to remove all reference to topic that has no underlying file

[Guest]

We are a team of four who use Robohelp 7 and Robosource control 3, with the roboshelp source on a server.

Sometimes Robohelp seems to get confused about which file corresponds to a topic: usually because the file doesn't exist. This can happen sometimes if I change the name of file even if I do so in the topic properties, using the topic properties dialog box.

In such a case, we are left with a 'zombie' topic, which we can't use but can't get rid of. I want to know a sure way to remove all knowledge of a zombie topic from Robohelp.
For example, is it enough (or sensible) to do the following? :
- delete all links in other topics to that zombie topic
- delete the reference in the .fpj file to the zombie topic

This seems to be an intermittent issue but very time consuming when it happens!

Regards
Peter

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi Peter.
First of all let me say that I use a different version control application. However this does seem to be a synching issue between your RH project and the RoboSource database. If after you check in your project, can you check for any differences between the source and the source control database. This may shed some light. I certianly wouldn't delete anything just yet.