Encountering an odd problem:
In trying to puzzle out the search issues in RH, as a test I
made a completely new project for one of our existing .chms. I did
this to test whether there is something wrong with RH and/or the
master project, or if things have become corrupted in one or more
sub-projects.
The two projects are identical, save for the project names
and the use of some extra body text to visually distinguish between
topics from the new project and the same topics in the original
project.
After creating the new project, I created a link and merged
it into the master project. I've also deleted the link for the old
one, and removed its chm from the folder where our current help
files are stored.
I then recompiled.
The problem: Searching for the topics returns the versions
from the old .chm. Directly navigating takes me to the topics from
the new .chm. The new .chm topics do not appear in any searches.
This is not the first time I've encountered "ghost" topics in
our help system. Previously, I found a project that had had most of
its topic htm files deleted, with bad links, yet the topics were
still appearing in our help system (direct or through search).
I am now going to try creating a new master file from
scratch, to see what effect this might have. However, I remain
totally in the dark as to how RH operates. To be honest, most
functions seem to work either randomly or not at all, with no rhyme
or reason.
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