Image Map Issue

I have recently converted my Robohelp for Word project to HTML, more or less successfully. As expected, all of the links that existed in the Winhelp project that originated from a bitmap, broke during the conversion process. I'm in the process of re-establishing these links, which is proving to be a very long process due to the fact that every time I right click on an image map to access its "properties," it takes nearly 90 seconds for the properties window to appear! Is there any way to speed this up? This happens even when I create a totally new image map on a new image in a new topic. Currently, all of my HTM files are in one huge folder... if, at this point, i created a folder for each htm file, would that possibly speed things up, or would that totally mess up my project? I'm on Robohelp 7. Thanks.

Hi there
Splitting the project into folders will likely help the issue. I think the slowdown occurs because all the topics and images and whatnot have to be read in so they are able to appear in the list. If you have several folders with fewer topics you should be better off.
One caveat though. ONLY move the files and folders from inside RoboHelp HTML. If you sneak behind its back and begin moving things about, you are likely to make RoboHelp wander around all bug eyed looking for things that aren't there any more!
Cheers... Rick
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