Go into your operating system and make a copy of the bob.* files.
Rename them to doug.*, being careful to match the names that are now
used in your book file.
Regenerate/update.
Art
On 12/21/05, jopakent at comcast.net <jopakent at comcast.net> wrote:
> FM 7.1 (unstructured) Win XP0
>
> I've seen this before and I'm half way through fixing it (the hard way). I had
> to put this job aside until tonight, so I've had a chance to rethink things.
>
> I have a book that I haven't worked on for a while. I changed the name of the
> book at some point. So now the name of the book doesn't match the name of its
> generated files. For example if the name used to be bob.book, the TOC was
> bobTOC.fm and the index was bobIX.fm. But I changed the name to Doug.book.
> Now
> when I open the book I can see and open all bobTOC.fm and bobIX.fm, but seem
> to
> be "disconnected." By this, I mean that when I do a book operation like
> Update
> or "open next document in book," Frame can't find the file. I get an error
> like
> "can't find DougTOC.fm."
>
> I started re-creating the files this morning (doing an Add TOC), but this
> seems
> like a lot of uneccessary work when I've got what looks like the right file
> right in front of me. I'm wondering if there's a way of tricking Frame into
> recognizing the file again. Is it just a matter of matching the name of the
> *TOC.fm file with the name in the book? That'd be great. If that's not what
> Frame looks for I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what it does look for.
--
Art Campbell art.campbell at
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and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
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