Command line generation errors in log. How do I fix this?

[Jared Hess]

Version: RH 9 (latest version)

OS: Windows 7, 64-bit

Output: CHM

I have a batch file that uses RH's command line generation functionality to generate our CHMs regularly.

The command line works for my other projects. But I have one project that has three different CHMs outputted, and each chm from this one project always fails.

Each of the three log file generated contains info along these lines.

Adobe (R) RoboHelp Project Command Line Compiler version 9.0.0.228

Copyright (C) 2006-2007, Adobe Systems Incorporated and its licensors. All rights reserved.

Project: d:\hg\pcdmisqa\pcdlrn\help\toolkitmodules\PC-DMIS Toolkit Modules.xpj

Layout: Toolkit Modules-Miscellaneous.

Output: D:\DocProjects\Outputs\common_chm\toolkitmodules.chm.

Scanning project for compilation....

Error: Failed to scan all the project files. Please use RoboHelp to recover the project.

Unexpected Error: Failed to prepare single source data for RHCL. Please try to compile it in RoboHTML.

Any ideas? By the way, these helps compile fine within RH itself.

[Jared Hess]

I'm still testing, but it looks like deleting the CPD and then reimporting the project from the HHP file per the suggestion in this thread might clear this up:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3595009

[Jared Hess · Accepted solution]

Okay, deleting the CPD and reimporting the HHP file to recreate the XPJ and all the other project files fixed this problem for me. They seem to be generating using the command line now.

But it created a LOT of work: all build layouts had to be recreated and all conditional build tags had to be regenerated.

If you do go this route, make sure you make a backup of your project first as you may have to refer to it to get things back the way they were after the import process.