Quoting from an earlier post:
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It is currently on my local drive, although we previously ran
the project in version 3 off of my companies network drive and it
ran pretty much flawlessly, with an occasional hiccup when the
network went down with publishing error messages and login errors.
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Your topics may be have a lot of extraneous code, possibly in
meta statements.
In a couple of old projects that migrated from X3 I found
some stuff like this in X5 or RH 6, I forget when it happened:
<meta name="build tags"
content="dontprintnow,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,
dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,
Exclude,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontp
and on and on.
I fact, I just found the above example by searching some old
projects. "Exclude" and "dontprintnow" were tags I had used at the
topic level..
The current cpd file, like its predecessors in earlier
releases, keeps track of this, too. So every time you get such
garbage in a topic, it gets stuffed into the cpd when you close the
project. Imagine how long that must take, especially given the
limitations of MS Access database table fields.
I don't know how the repetitions came about. It may have been
during a crash, but by the time I discovered this garbage it was
too late to trace it back. You wrote that you experienced some
hiccups, too.
As you had as many as 10 build tags, some of this junk may
still lurk in topics, despite your attempt to delete tags at the
project level.
Harvey