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Originally posted by: Peter Grainge
Create a two copies of your project.
In one, delete half the topics and ignore broken links. Compile.
In the other delete the other half of the topics and compile.
Does one work OK and one still take a long time.
If necessary split both halves again. I am hoping it will reveal a problem area.
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Did you ever get this issue resolved?
I have recently installed Robohelp 8 and am experiencing the same problem, although for me it is taking upwards of an hour to compile, taking the longest time when "processing full-text-search data".
Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks
Pete
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Hi there
Where is your project located? Is it by chance on a network drive? If so, close things down, copy it to your C drive and try again. You will probably be astonished at the speed difference.
Networks and RoboHelp project files are like trying to mix oil and water. WebHelp OUTPUT is fine on a network. But you don't want to open RoboHelp and then browse to a project on a network and make edits.
Cheers... Rick
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Hi Rick,
Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately the project is already on my C drive. It is a fairly large project (741Mb, approx 9000 files) which was created in x5, and I only recently inherited it and had to try to figure out how to work with it on my own (I have no previous experience in help systems, so am relatively clueless!). I know there are some PDFs in the project, but I don't know how many, or if this is causing the problem.
The whole thing was taking about 5 minutes to generate to an intranet site from x5, but RH8 is taking over an hour.
Any ideas of what else I can try? Is there a way to exclude things from the full text search, since this looks to be what is taking up most of the generate time?
Thanks
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You generate to a local drive, you publish to an intranet.
Does the generate stage take longer than usual or is it just the publishing?
When you publish do you have the Republish All box ticked?
In my articles on merged webhelp, one of the reasons I cite for using it is to contain the size of a project. Typically I limit any one project to around five thousand topics but that's a figure I came up with where work starts slowing up. It could be more or less depending on size. However, if it was working in X5, it should work in RH8.
I'm hoping the Republish All box got cleared in the upgrade and resetting it will fix things.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips