FrameMaker10 deleting files from hard drive when generating TOC, LOF, LOT

[Robert Lauriston]

I encountered what sounds like the same problem. The key for me is
never to change the selected printer from Adobe PDF. If I need to
print, I save as PDF and print the PDF.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Lavoie Jean-Philippe
<jplav21 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I came across an interesting bug while using FrameMaker 10 (windows 7) last
> week and was wondering if any of you experienced the same and could advice
> so that it does not happen again in the future.
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> The problem:
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> I created a book and included several sections/files to create a user
> manual. Once finished writing the manual, I added a TOC by first selecting
> the book and I clicked Add -> Table of Contents. I selected the tags to
> include and created the TOC. The normal behavior of Frame when creating the
> TOC is to open each section, look for tags and then close the file.
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> The interesting part is that while creating the TOC, Frame generated a few
> errors and “physically deleted” some of my Frame files from the hard drive.
> The book error log gave me an error like “cannot open xxxxx.fm because it
> does not exist. I can assure you that before creating the TOC, all book
> links to sections worked fine and all files were in the same directory. I
> then started to look for the “missing” file reported by frame. Not only I
> could no longer find the file in the directory but I was not able to find it
> anywhere else on my hard drive or in the trash can.
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> I had a backup and was able to restore the missing file. Then, I added a LOF
> to my book. This time, Frame deleted 2 other files from my book and from my
> hard drive … I restored the files, restarted my computer and updated the
> book without any problems this time.
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> I have since been scared to click “update book”!
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> Has anyone observed the same problem? Any advice?
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