File Management Question

[John Huntington]

Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
> Odd. What does the Book file say? I am not quite clear based on your
> earlier post what is the problem.
>   

Sorry, my response got stuck in my "drafts" outbox so the whole thread 
is pretty historical at this point.  :-)

Basically, I've been doing a lot of work on a book, and I cut a bunch of 
chapters.   What I was calling the "data" directory is the folder where 
I'm keeping all the FM files related to the book.  What I want to do is 
sort out that folder in some way so I can move the old, unused files to 
a "dead" director.  Mr. Ridder suggested that I run the update, and that 
would open, close, and save each file, and then I could just do a 
windows sort and move the older dated file.  Unfortunately, though, 
since I hadn't made any edits, only the TOC and LOF files changed.   I 
eventually went through and opened every file manually, changed one 
character, changed it back, and then closed it, and then manually purged 
out the data directory.  I'd just like to do this in some more automated 
way.  And I did remove the files from the book from within the book 
file,  but they apparently just get abandoned in the folder.

Thanks!

John
> Some questions:
> 1. Does the [bookfile-name].book show all the files that you deleted
> from the directory or place they used to be at? Then they should
> really show the files with a preceding question mark.
> 2. Did you use the book file to "move" the chapter files?. Then they
> should update.
> 3. Have you checked the Numbering setting of each file in the book
> file? If it is set to a specific numbering, you may have to change it
> there.
> 4. By data directory, do you mean the book file or the folder where
> you keep the folders?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
>
> On 2/20/06, John Huntington <jhuntington at runbox.com> wrote:
>   
>> Ooops, looks like this never went out!
>>
>> John Huntington wrote:
>>     
>>> Ridder, Fred wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Well, if you do an Update Book operation, FrameMaker opens and saves
>>>> all of the active files in your book to update the pagination data,
>>>>         
>> I just tried this, and with no changes, it actually only saves the
>> TOC/LOF files...
>>
>> Thanks, John
>>
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