I'm separating one project into two...and I can import the
topics to the new project fine, images come fine...but the Index
terms are not transferring.
Is there anyway to salvage them? Is there a setting I'm
missing? Thanks!!!
Quick question - is it too late to just copy the project to a
new name / location and then delete the files in each that no
longer apply? I have done it this way - much easier to delete than
to restore or re-add what is missing.
Thanks for the answer! Unfortunately that would be a far
bigger task. I'm pulling out 1,000 files from a project of 8,000
files. It would be harder to copy and delete everything else. I'm
guessing I'm in for a long process of re-entering the terms by
hand....
If you can't follow Lmarden's advice you could also copy and
paste the revelvant part of the projectname.hhk file by opening
them in Notepad. You have know what you are copying/pasting though
and I'd advise taking backups first. The other way around it is to
set the index to be non-binary and I think then the index keywords
are imported. That has additional ramifications though. See the
Help which explains it better than I can here.
Are you sure it would be harder to delete the files? Not to
beat a dying horse - but if the files you don't need are in folders
that are separate from the files you want to keep, it is a cinch to
use the Topic tab to delete topics by folder. And the upside is
that you keep your index, TOC, map IDs - all the stuff you run the
risk of losing as you set up a new project. Either way, with a
project that large, it'll be an effort. Good luck to ya!!!
Thanks Colum, I intent to look at the .hhk file before I
enter these by hand...but didn't know that a setting of non-binary
could offer relief. I'll look at what the downside is of that
first. Thanks!!!!
If you don't delete the index terms from the files you are
deleting...you end up with broken links for them...so I would need
to delete the terms for each of the other 7,000 files one by one
and then delete the topics one by one....right?
I would delete the topics, then go into the Index listing and
delete the broken term connections - it's been awhile, but I think
the broken ones appear in bold face. Again, quicker to delete than
to add terms back in. For me, anyway.
I'm trying the suggested 'delete everything else' method
too...those Index terms are a pain! But I can't delete an entire
folder - I have to delete topics one-by-one...is that right? Am I
missing the obvious? When I click a folder and try
delete...nothing...
you're right - you can't delete the entire folder, but you
can use the Shift key to select multiple files in the folder to
delete from the Topics list.
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