All,
Now that I can catch my breath after a major panic, hopefully, I can accurately describe a problem that I just had in a large Framemaker book - one that I had NEVER seen before and one that took some weird fixes. Working on a Win 7, 64-bit system, 12GB memory, dual quad processors with FM 9.0 all patched and current. I have a Framemaker book file with 14 files in it, two of which are some standard generated files, a TOC and an Index. I have been working on this book for over a month now without any issues. Today, I opened all the files in the book and all, and I do mean >ALL< graphics were just apparently "gone" from each and every file. Every single solitary anchored frame that had an imported graphic (by reference) file was blank, but yet when the files opened, I did not get the message about "FM cannot find a graphic file." I also have graphics on my Reference pages that are pulled into some paragraph tags that I had and these too were gone - poof! I couldn't really fathom what I was seeing. In fact, when I opened and viewed the Reference page for each of these files, the graphics on the Reference pages were "gone" as well. Only the name of the graphic above its anchored frame was displayed. I first opened a file in a completely different book in a completely different directory that uses the same Reference page layout and reference page graphics and all was OK, so I tried MULTIPLE times to import this reference page into the files with the apparently missing graphics to no avail. I would select File > Import > Formats, confirm that Reference Page/Page Layouts/Paragraph Tags, etc. was selected and with an affected file open, import from this good file. Nothing, nada, zip, zilch. Nothing in the affected file was being changed - the Reference page stayed blank, etc. In desperation, in an affected file, I selected an anchored frame and imported the apparently missing graphic into an anchored frame and VOILA! >>ALL<< and I do mean all the graphics "reappeared" in all their glory in all their anchored frames - no error messages, nothing. This included the graphics that were pulled in by reference pages. I repeated this process for all the affected files - reimporting a single graphic into a single anchored frame to update all the missing graphics. Here's the real kicker - in some cases in which I reimported the missing graphic, it was displayed on top of the same graphic - like I was importing over an already existing graphic, even tho' the existing graphic wasn't displayed until I reimported it. It was like FM lost its memory and simply forgot the path to the graphics folder, and nope, I hadn't moved any folders, renamed files, etc. It was the same old book in the same old place with the same old file structure that I have had for a month now. Has anyone ever seen this before and if so, do you have any insight as to what would be the cause of this? I can't imagine that with 12GB RAM, memory would be an issue. I had standard applications open on my desktop that I always have when working - Outlook, MS Internet Explorer, Skype, PowerGramo (a recording app. for Skype), and the application to which I am writing. This has been my MO since the cows came home, and I have never seen it before, and I hope to never see it again. TIA, TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC www.spectrumwritingllc.com info at spectrumwritingllc.com
