Robohelp decompile problem

[Robere_144]

Greetings:

I haven't been on the forum for a while, but I have a real problem. I inadvertently deleted some components of my original Robohelp data directory, so I followed the (excellent) instructions posted here regarding the use of the Keytools.exe pgm to decompile the chm file. This has worked for me in the past.

Today, however, I find that, although the decompile works fine, the next steps fail -

Open Robohelp HTML from the selection of pgms within Robohelp X5.
Select New Project
Click the Import tab
Select MS-HTML Help project; OK
Select the HHP file that keytools created; Open it.

when I attempt to open the Helpfile.hhp file, a msg appears -

'unable to create database - check that the directory is not read-only'

the file folder is indeed marked 'read-only', but every time I uncheck it, the change is 'ignored'.

I have never seen an instance in Windows XP where this happened before.
Needless to say, I can't successfully recreate my Robohelp data files, at this point.

Has anyone else seen this?

thanx for your help!

Robert Gross
Budgetext Inc.
Technical Documentation and Training

[Peter Grainge]

I wonder if this topic will help you?

Click here.

[Robere_144]

Peter: Thanks for the excellent reference material - each method seems to successfully retrieve the data topics, but unfortunately I get the same error msg upon opening the HHP file:

'unable to create database - check that the directory is not read-only'

I have searched the forum, and one possible answer seemed to be, 'reinstall Robohelp', but I don't have access to the original install disks, so I really wanted to avoid that if possible.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

In the meantime, I will continue looking for those install disks....

Robere 144

[Peter Grainge]

Are you the user whose login was used to install RH? If not, do you have that username and password? If not then reinstallation will be a requirement although I cannot guarantee it will fixt the problem.

[Robere_144]

I am the original installer, using the only machine Robhelp has ever been installed on.
if there is some way around complete reinstallation, I am willing to try it. *s*

[Peter Grainge]

Assuming that you are working on your hard disk and not a network, I don't know why you are getting the message. I don't know that reinstalling will fix the problem, that was simply suggested as it often does fix things.

[Robere_144]

just fyi, as a follow up to my issue of the decompile problem ...

I was able to successfully download the 'trial version' of robohelp, and use keytools to decompile/recompile my original project, perfectly!

So, the answer appears to be, my original Robohelp pgm files are somehow corrupted.
Once those are repaired/reinstalled, everything should be fine.

regards,

Robere