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Unable to delete baggage file named "none"

Community Beginner ,
Sep 04, 2013 Sep 04, 2013

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Hi there,

I'm using Adobe Robohelp HTML 8.0.2.208

I opened my WebHelp project today and noticed I have a missing baggage file, simply titled "none".

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When I right-click on it, the delete option is not there.

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When I click Properties, all it tells me is that it is named "none", and Location, Size, Created, and Modified are all (Unknown). Clicking the "Open Folder" button simply takes me to my source folder.

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My project has no broken links of any sort. I checked my index, TOC, references, everywhere. The project (to the best of my knowledge) is flawless. I even went overkill and made sure all my pages are W3C validated.

I searched the forums and web trying to find someone with the same or at least similar problem, and I found tips on add/remove baggage files by editing the rhbag.apj file in notepad or similar editing program.

So I opened the file and I see a basic xml tree with only two references; one to my RoboHHRE.lng file, and one to this mysterious "none" file.

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So I removed lines 9 through 13 and save the file...

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And the problem seems to be fixed (temporarily). My Project Manager refreshes immediately and the file which supposedly never existed is gone:

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However, it only stays gone until I close my project. The next time I open the project (either by launching it from the recent projects list within RoboHelp or executing the .xpj file from the source folder) the missing baggage file is back in my Project Manager, and when I re-open the

rhbag.apj file, the code is back for the "none" file:

<file>

<name>none</name>

<usercreated>false</usercreated>

<comments/>

</file>

So whatever file writes the rhbag.apj file is telling it to list this baggage file, so ideally I need to go to the source of the problem and find what file is responsible for writing the rhbag.apj file and remove the reference there.

Problem being, RoboHelp generates ALOT of files, many with proprietary or obscure file extensions. Opening each one, one at a time, in notepad and trying to find a reference to baggage files (which I've spent the last several hours doing) seems to be hopeless.

Any help that anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated! As functional as the project seems, I don't know what (if any) problems/crashes this conflict could produce in the future, and I'd rather get rid of it now before the webhelp project expands much greater.

Thanks in advance

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Community Beginner , Sep 05, 2013 Sep 05, 2013

UPDATE

Well I managed to find where the above 'data:image/gif' erorr was coming from. I forgot my css was using Data URLs for list styles for IE10 (if you're curious, check out this article).

It seems RH8 doesn't like Data URLs as it seems to mistake the mime type for an actual image file and location and doesn't read the base64 representation of the binary image.

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It's purely there for IE10 support and since I'm developing for intranet it's not critical, so I surrounded the reference with comment b

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Community Expert ,
Sep 04, 2013 Sep 04, 2013

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Try deleting or renaming the .cpd file – it gets rebuilt each time if it’s missing

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Deleted the .cpd file, it's still there

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Worth a shot – no harm; no foul ;>)

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Community Beginner ,
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Agreed! I appreciate the tip regardless as I'm sure that trick will come handy in the future : )

I even tried changing the reference in the rhbag.apj file to an actual file (made a copy of a picture I had) and set usercreated to true, then tried to delete it from the project manager but that didn't work either. It adds the picture but also adds the "none" reference. There's a file in the source folder somewhere telling robohelp to add this to the rhbag.apj file. I just can't find what file is modifying the rhbag.apj file when the project loads. ugh!

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LEGEND ,
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Hi there

I'm curious about the sequence of events here. Have you tried closing RoboHelp, massaging the file to remove the entries, deleting the CPD THEN restarting RoboHelp?

My thought here is that if it existed in the CPD and it was briefly gone then suddenly reappeared, the XML file was updated too. So clobbering the CPD wouldn't do anything as when it was rebuilt, it would use what the XML file has.

If you do that and the file re-appears, I might think that you have a link somewhere in the project that still references the missing baggage file.

Cheers... Rick

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Community Beginner ,
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Hey Rick,

Thanks for the suggestion. I closed RH, deleted the entry from the rhbag.apj file, deleted the CPD file, then restarted RH. Alas, the file is still there.

I checked my broken links folder again, and it's still empty:

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If I had a link somewhere in the project that still referenced the missing baggage file, shouldn't that link show up in my Broken Links folder ?

Regards,
Craig

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LEGEND ,
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Hi there

Indeed one would expect that to happen. But I'm not sure it will. Things are sometimes linked in odd ways.

If it were me, I'd be inclined to just run with it as long as nothing otherwise seems to be amiss. But if you are determined to squash it, I'd open the Find and Replace in Files and perform a search for "none" as is listed and see what you find. You may find it lurking somewhere in an obscure location.

Cheers... Rick

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Community Beginner ,
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Hi again Rick,

I'm starting to warm up to the idea of running with it, since I've already spent way too much time trying to fix what seems to be an inconsequential bug. I hesitate however for two reasons; 1.) I've seen funny stuff like this too many times with RH, going back to RH5, and they always seem to come back and haunt me in the future if I don't fix them when I have the chance and 2.) I'm a tad OCD

I opened every file in my source folder that would read in notepad++ and tried to perform find and replace but, unfortunately, not a single file contained "none".

I did however stumble upon a potential clue.

While editing one of my topics, I got a popup error when I hit save:

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My jaw dropped! I thought I hand stumbled upon the very evil surrounding this mystery. I immediately jumped from design view to html view to find where my topic was trying to call "data:image/gif" thinking I had made a typo a put a slash in lieu of a period for a img tag.

Now the mystery just got even worse! There are no images in that particular topic. I ran find for "image", "img", and "gif" and came up empty. I also then checked all my images and I don't have any images linked to that topic.

Now I'm really confused

Regards,

Craig

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UPDATE

Well I managed to find where the above 'data:image/gif' erorr was coming from. I forgot my css was using Data URLs for list styles for IE10 (if you're curious, check out this article).

It seems RH8 doesn't like Data URLs as it seems to mistake the mime type for an actual image file and location and doesn't read the base64 representation of the binary image.

rbh09.PNG

It's purely there for IE10 support and since I'm developing for intranet it's not critical, so I surrounded the reference with comment brackets in my css file, resaved my topic, closed RH, and just for kicks deleted the CPD file again, and voila! No more popup error and no more mysterious "none" baggage file!!!

I need a coffee now 

Thanks for the continued support on this problem Rick, you kept me motivated to find a solution, cheers!

Craig

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You expected RH8 to know something about IE10?!? LOL!

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Internet Explorer 8 and above supports data URIs for images in CSS, <link>, and <img>. I don't expect RH8 to know anything about IE10, but IE8? One would hope.

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Sorry, your phrasing was sounding like you were trying to use some feature of IE10 in a RH8 project. If the feature works in IE8+ then you would probably need to check if RH8 supported IE8 and that you're all patched up on RH8. You'd probably have a better chance working with it in RH10.

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