Merged Projects on a shared drive

I have a merged project and it's currently saved to a shared drive, as you probably already know my projects run EXTREMELY slow.  Is there a way around this?  What we want is to have the project saved on a shared drive where multiple authors can save to.  Any suggestions?

Hi there
Irosado wrote:
...as you probably already know my projects run EXTREMELY slow...
Not sure how I'd know that, but in any case the universal equation goes like this:
RoboHelp Project on a network = S L O W (and hazardous to the project's health)
If you really need collaboration, you need to investigate a Source Control system. (RoboSource Control, PVCS, StarTeam, Visual Source Safe, etc.)
Cheers... Rick
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