problems getting rid of Name Tree Dests

[rebecca officer]

Hi Karen

A while ago we needed to track down multiple named destinations and
someone in our group worked out how. He generated an Alphabetical List
of Markers of type Cross-Ref, which includes the marker ID. Then he
saved that as text and imported it into Excel. The IDs end up in one
column that you can sort and search for duplicates. By turning on
hypertext links in the list of markers, we could find problem markers in
the source FM files and sort them out.

We had managed to make multiple identical markers by creating lots of
short documents from a template, and later combining them into one
document. The template included functional cross-references. When we
wrote a document from the template, we found out the hard way that FM
didn't change the destination markers. So lots of our short documents
had identical xref destinations. Fine in the short documents, but a
total write-off in the final long document - each xref pointed to the
first example of that destination in the long document. So that's a
situation where you can't just ignore multiple named destinations.

Needless to say, our template no longer includes working
cross-references. ;-(

Cheers, Rebecca

>>> "Karen Mardahl" <k.mardahl at gmail.com> 5/07/06 22:39 >>>
Hi

I have the infamous error message in my Distiller:
% [ Warning: The following Names in Name Tree Dests were defined more
than once ] %

I simply cannot clean up these files (in FM 7.1p116/WinXP).

I have tried
* roundtripping MIF (FM > MIF > FM) with simple Save As.
* searching for these numbers in the MIF files (found 2 that start
with I and none that start with G out of 73!)
* being good at updating book regularly (I use conditional text and
toggle a lot between the various versions)
* Using ITL's lovely Report Paragraph Overrides script to find
miscreants

I CANNOT use the optimize feature. It just fails. It says it cannot
open the very first file in the book. I even replaced that first file
(just the cover page of the book, easy to do). If I remove the Cancel
on Error, it goes through the optimizing process, but says it
processed 0 files. I can optimize single files, but that seems of no
value at all.

I also feel like the original bunch might have gone, but new ones have
taken their place.

We get big frowns from our manager for having these stragglers and I
don't know what to do!!!
Help, anyone? It would be greatly appreciated!

regards, Karen Mardahl
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