Aperture 3 - When I merge projects......

My images are referenced.........
When I merge projects inside Aperture 3, how do I get them to be merged on my external drive? Do I go in and do it manually, or is there a command in A3 that I should use to execute this action? I looked inside the menus, but nothing popped out at me as the right action to take. And.....
I assume that I need to manually merge these images on the backup external drive, right? There is no command inside Aperture to merge them on my backup, right? Or is there?
Thanks.

JUN48 - Thanks for your help, but I believe that "Consolidate Masters" is for bringing images into a managed library.
TD - Thanks also. You asked why I want my external images moved..... because I want/need my external to mirror my A3 library in the app. I was going to just try this manually but was afraid I'd mess things up (like in iPhoto where you don't want to touch the organization of folders and such). But I posted here to get the know how before I execute the rearrangement. Anyway, what's the correct way to do this? Or should I just do it manually and A3 will still find and handle these images OK??????

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That does help - thanks a lot.
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I have a Mbp and an Imac
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Excuse me for my translation, because English isn't my home language. I hope it is readable enough..;-))

Everything works well now!
I have both librarys on each mac rebuild trough merge the library in an compleet new one.
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Hi there
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The link below has more:
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Dear Sir,
I have a problem with index in the master project, I can only
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Firstly, you can duplicate SSL's. (Right click on an SSL in
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I've never merged projects before so this is probably user
error, but when I follow the steps from the Adobe help system for
merging projects in RoboHelp 8, generate the project, and then view
it my merged project is not present. This is what I did:
(1) Created a generic project (documentation that we reuse in
all help systems)
(2) Created the client project (documentation that's specific
to this client's help system)
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Merged Project icon
(4) This is a WebHelp Pro project so I selected the
FlashHelp/WebHelp/Adobe AIR tab
(5) I browsed for the generic project (located in a seperate
folder)
(6) I clicked OK
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(8) I generated the project like normal
(9) I clicked View Results and the only stuff that's there is
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Everything that I read says that merged project doesn't show
up until the project is published. I guess with the way we do work
I don't understand the difference between generating and
publishing. What happens is that I generate the project, zip the
WebHelp Pro folder, email it to a developer or put it in a shared
drive depending on the client and then the developer attached the
files to the system. To call the correct screen, I have to include
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application calls the screen name with the same HTM name which
displays a screen help page for that particular screen and then the
user can use the navigation (TOC or search or links) to find the
help topics they're looking for. I doubt this is the "best" way to
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difference and this is how they requested the files. Point being --
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publishing. I know there is a server somewhere because the actually
application we build is on a server, but I don't know the technical
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Actually, I had generated all the child project previously,
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child. It looks like in the table of contents, you actually have to
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That said, I did find a way to get it in there before I found this
solution. I did all the steps that Peter Grainge had suggested,
then I copied and pasted the !SSL folder from where the child
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Following the instructions on the Grainge site, I created a
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BAM\parent --->parent project location
BAM\Child\Project1 --->child location
BAM\Child\Project2 --->child location
BAM\Child\Project3 --->child location
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The correct TOC books, one for each project, did display in
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Hello. I have been sailing along working on my merged
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them--twice. The first time I changed the name it continued to work
fine. But this morning I changed the name again and now the child
project no longer appears in the merged TOC.
**This is the first merged project in the parent project's
TOC. However, it still doesn't appear even if I move it farther
down in the list.
**The redirect from the parent project's default topic to the
child project's default topic works fine.
**The child project's TOC works fine when I generate it
independently.
**I changed the Title of the project and the name of the
project. I regenerated the parent project to get the new folder
name and generated the child project into that new folder name.
Perhaps I did all of these things in the incorrect order? At first
I didn't change the folder name, but then later I did. And I
deleted the old output folder...
**The new project is being pointed to in the parent project's
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How can I include merged projects in the printed documentation?

I have a master project with several merged projects. This works splendid with online documentation, but when I am asked to provide a printed version, it seems I have to create separate documents for each merged project.
Is there any setting or fix that enables print also of merged projects and topics when I create printed documentation?
Pretty please with sugar on top :-)

Hm - there is a contract with the customer, saying that he wants documentation both as word and pdf, and as we now aim at only writing online documentation, these tasks create extra work, as we are delivering updates each month
But yes - two beasts, where only chm is actually needed we think.
-Tone
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 06:53:04 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How can I include merged projects in the printed documentation?
Hi there
I'm a bit curious as to the reasoning behind your "persuation process for using chm-files only".
CHM files and printed documentation are two entirely different beasts.
Cheers... Rick
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Hi,
I am using RHX5 to produce help in HTML chm format. I have 14
separate projects which are merged into a master project, due to a
bug in RH in which the table of contents does not display correctly
I use HTML Help Workshop to compile the master project.
One of the 14 projects has glossary entries and so far I have
been unable to make the glossary entries appear in the master
project when it is compiled in HTML Help Workshop.
I have registered the hhactivex.dll.
I checked the glossary checkbox in the windows setup in both
the individual project and the master and I added a glossary entry
to the master project.
When I compile the project using RH then all the glossary
entries appear but the table of contents is messed up.
When I compile the project using HTML Help Workshop then only
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Morven

Hi Morven. When you say your TOC is messed up are you
referring to the problem where the merged projects appear as a book
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appear as search results. We are not using an index, but binary
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I think I'm the one causing the problem - I don't think I
read your initial post carefully enough. Sorry...
I can't figure out how this is happening. When you merge
.chms, you have already compiled the 'slave' projects. The link
from the master TOC points to a slave .chm - which you say is
working correctly when opened on its own.
Since the slaves and masters are compiled independently,
there shouldn't be any interaction between the master and slave
build expressions - and if there is one, it should be excluding
more topics, not including more topics!
The typical problems people have with merged .chms seem to be
TOC issues (does the master TOC show up, or just the slave
project's TOC?) and path issues (the master can't find the slaves).
However, I did see one or two posts on this forum where the master
was pointing to old copies of the slave .chm - could you have a
"complete" .chm lurking about?
BTW, according to RH help, binary indexes are fine in merged
HTMLhelp. Binary TOCs are not. I don't think you have this problem,
because the symptoms are different, but you could take a look - the
setting is in the HTMLHelp Generate wizard. Click the [Advanced]
button on the first wizard page and look on the TOC tab to make
sure Binary TOC is not checked.
You might also do a quick search on the General
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recognize a symptom in someone's post that I didn't catch.
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