Error trying to open a chm:

[tojo45]

After a MICROSOFT HTML Help compile, with no errors, when trying to open the chm file get: Cannot open the file:mk:@MSITStore <followed by the full path> . The file also does not work in the application. Tried the currently posted forum suggestion re this error being about the "path being too long" - a shorter path did not help. This seemed to occur spontaneously. It worked one day, and after another compile it did not work. Tried Microsoft Support page article 312456 re replacing and registering hhctrl.ocx file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance. Joe

[johnmccallum]

Joe,

Are you by any chnce opening this file over a network or have you copied it to a test machine from your computer? Either of these will give you the error. If the .chm won't even run on your development machine, can you open other projects?

John

[tojo45]

John, Thanks for the quick reply. No, the file is located on the local machine hard drive. Able to open other CHM's on the same machine. I copied the problem CHM to another machine and tried opening it on that machine and same error results.

Joe

[johnmccallum]

So it looks like something got damaged in that one particular project. It claims to compile without error, but perhaps it is compiling a truncated version. What kind of file size does the .chm have? Is it normal or is it smaller? When you open it do you get the Nav pane? Can you click on any topic in the TOC and get it to open?

I ask this because I have seen the compiler stop without warning if there is an error in the syntax of the .hhp file. This sometimes results in a short file, missing a lot of topics, but otherwise "correct" in the eyes of the compiler.

John

[Captiv8r · Accepted solution]

Hi all

You might also find the thread linked below of interest.

Click here to view the thread

Cheers... Rick

[tojo45]

Rick,

Removing the CPD file did the trick. Thanks so much.

Joe