Duplicate topics in search

Hello,
I am getting double topics appearing in my Search window.
I have read all the posts on this issue and have discovered that if I compile to a folder higher than the project folder, the problem disappears.
From what I have read, it appears that this is due to me having topics that link out to topics in a location higher than my project folder.
But I have no knowledge of having created such links. I have very few external links in my project and they all go to webpages.
Is there a way of searching for the culprit link? Or could the problem be caused by something else?
Thanks
Helen
Using RH7

Thanks Peter.
I'm getting there but I need a bit more help.
I used the FAR tool mentioned in the snippet to look inside my CHM but I don't really know what I'm looking for.
I've found lots of links that start with ../ or even ../../../ but if I go to the topic and edit the hyperlink and remove these, I get a message saying 'This action will create an external link to the help system. The link may not function when the help system is moved to other system. Create link anyway?'
Isn't an external link what I'm trying to avoid?
The topic I'm linking to is in a different folder but all folders are within the main project folder.
If I create a new link by highlighting some topic text and clicking the Hyperlink button, then select another topic from the topic list, it is automatically displayed in the Link to box with ../../ in front of it. Is this wrong then?
I'm attaching a screenshot of part of the link file to show you what it's coming up with.

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