Mini Folders in Bagage and Styles Folders

[Saint-Antonio]

I inherited a project and found a lot of empty folders in the "Baggage" and "Style Sheets" folders under the Project Tab. These empty folders have the same names as the folders in the HTML Files (Topics). I wanted to know what the purpose of those empty folders are.

[Captiv8r · Accepted solution]

Hi Saint-Antonio and welcome to our community

When you look at the folders in the RoboHelp Explorer pane, they have icons on them. I refer to these as "Pseudo-folders", as they aren't really folders you would see on your hard drive in Windows Explorer. But when you create folders from inside RoboHelp HTML, you ARE actually creating live folders in Windows Explorer. You are just using RoboHelp to accomplish it. The folders you see here are the actual folders you have created.

If you wish to suppress their view, click the View menu and DE-select "Empty Folders".

Cheers... Rick

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi Saint-Antonio and welcome to the RH community. Some of the elements of a RH project (e.g. baggage files, images) mirror the folder structure of the topics. If a baggage file is added, it is added in the folder where the file exists. Therefore you may have "empty" folders in baggage, style sheets, images, etc. but in fact the folder is not empty as it contains the topics.

[RoboColum_n_]

Oops! Sorry Rick. Didn't see you there 🙂

[Linux Rules]

RH uses an Access database engine to keep track of things. Those "folders" are not really "there" but instead are a "display" of a portion of the database that keeps track of the project. (Not sure how else to describe it.)

Not a good idea to mess with them. 8^)

Regards,
GEWB

[Linux Rules]

Oops, didn't see Rick AND Column there when I started my reply!

Fine minds think alike, or something like that.

GEWB