Links to FM Books Severed on Upgrade to TCS5

Since we upgraded to Tech Comm Suite 5, our RoboHelp projects are no longer linked (single-sourced) to their FrameMaker books. To correct this, we have to relink the projects and then go through the process of setting up the project all over again (mapIDs, table of contents, index, etc.) again, which is a very time consuming process prone to errors. Can anyone please help us avoid having to do this manual process for every single one of our many RoboHelp projects?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Rh11 does support projects being on a network although the OLH does state it will depend on network traffic. However, I can confirm that it is important that the project is first upgraded from the local copy that you had with previous versions of Rh.
Surely if you upgrade the project locally now, the whole point of linking is that changes to the source documents get applied when you then update the links? I'm working on the basis that the links will still be good on upgrade when done locally.
After that you could try moving the project to the network again. I have found that for most things it's just a bit slower. Heavy tasks like generating an output will take longer and only you can find out how much and whether that is acceptable. Working locally will always be quicker but some organisations don't like that.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
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