Help importing a decompiled .chm file

Hello,
I was recently trying to decompile a .chm file (following the
knowledge base instructions) and then importing that file into
RoboHelp. The file appeared to decompile correctly, but when I
loaded the project into RoboHelp, many images were missing. Is
there something else I should be doing or is this a known problem?
I am using RH6.
Thanks,
Aaron

Hmm...
Ok, I tried a couple things:
1. Created the folder in RH per both of your suggestions.
Result: RH still not seeing the files.
2. Create a new Sub-Folder in the Project directory folder
containing a copy of all the images and also created a folder with
the same name in the RH Images tree.
Result: RH still not seeing the files.
In all cases the files exist in the expected folders when
viewed in Explorer but only a subset appear in RH (the same subset
in all cases).
My dir structure looks like:
c:\project_folder containing all files
with
c:\project_folder\project_images containing a copy of the
image files
I have created a folder in the RH Image tree names
project_images.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks for the help (and putting up with my lack of knowledge
here).
Aaron

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