Renaming Projects in RH6

Question

I have a pretty large project created in RH6. I'd tell you
how many topics are in it, but RH6 crashed while running the topic
report.
Anyway, I'm a template nut: I like having a bare-bones
project with topics linked, index created, etc., then make a copy
of the entire project, and apply client-specific info to the copy.
This method involves renaming the project copy, but I've not had a
great deal of success here. When it's finished (or when I think
it's finished), there are so many broken links afterward, that I'm
forced to delete the copy, make another one and try again.
No, there are no broken links in the original project.
I am not using RoboSource Control.
I have not made any attempts to rename anything with Windows
Explorer or another 3rd party tool.
Is this just symptomatic of "version point zero" gremlins? Is
there an ETA on a patch?

Answer 1

Hey Peter. yes, I'm glad it works too. I've got a lot to
report:
1) I have no HHP file in the renamed project at all. The HHP
file exists in the original, however. And when I copied the
original project to the new folder in Windows Explorer, you can bet
the HHP file was there too. Only after the renaming did the HHP
file disappear.
2) There IS an fpj file in every folder. Do you mean why
would a list be needed? A list would be needed so that during
renamings, RH6 can check the list to ensure all of them are
accounted for. In this case, clearly, somehting is happening to one
of them. So perhaps a list isn't the worst idea?
3) Yes, I've made another copy, I've renamed the copy and the
very same subfolder's fpj file is getting wiped out. There's
nothing missing with the original project, I assure you. So if
those subfolders are present in the original project, then they're
present in the copy. And by the way...it's not that there's no fpj
file in hw. The file exists. It just contains this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<rhpml majorversion="1" minorversion="0">
<folders>
<folder>
<name>images</name>
</folder>
</folders>
<topics/>
</rhpml>
In the above, I notice there's no <topics> tag to
accompany <topics/> (which is the wrong syntax anyway). It's
completely correct in the original fpj, filled with a list of
topics and folders.
What's truly baffling is this: if the fpj file is being wiped
out, then how can it be that all the links between the pages in hw
and all the subfolders are intact? After all, only the TOC and
Index links are broken.
Somebody cue Rod Serling: "Submitted for your
approval..."