Very slow save time in RH6

Question

Please help!
Recently my company upgraded us from RH3 to RH6 and I was
placed in charge of converting all of our RH3 projects over to RH6.
Following all the directions and instructions that I could find, I
was able to successfully transfer over 5 of the 6 RoboHelp HTML
project files without a glitch, it's the final project and the
largest of them all that is giving me headaches.
RH6 was installed on a new Windows XP Professional SP2 system
with a 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 75GB harddrive, 2.98 GB
of RAM and 2 GB of Virtual Memory, we are also running on Microsoft
Office 2000. My main project file is 223MB in size and contains
1395 topics, countless bookmarks, and 10 conditional build tags.
Previously on RH3, this manual would normally take 20-30 minutes to
load, about 15-30 seconds to refresh while saving changes made when
working, and about 40-50 minutes to publish, and that was on a much
older and slower CPU system with about 1/8 the memory and speed.
Now, on this newer system, and with the newer version of RH, it is
taking on average of 2-4 hours to load, 2-4 minutes between saves,
and ironically onlyl about 20-30 minutes to publish?
I have tried numerous fixes that were listed out in the
forums, I have read through the Snippets posted on Peter Grainges
site, and uploaded the patches through Adobe (which got rid of the
windows error message we were initially encountering while
publishing). I have both renamed and deleted the .cpd and .xpj
files, I have even went as far as creating an entirely new project
from scratch and importing the individual HTML documents from the
old file and nothing is working?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Quoting from an earlier post:
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It is currently on my local drive, although we previously ran
the project in version 3 off of my companies network drive and it
ran pretty much flawlessly, with an occasional hiccup when the
network went down with publishing error messages and login errors.
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Your topics may be have a lot of extraneous code, possibly in
meta statements.
In a couple of old projects that migrated from X3 I found
some stuff like this in X5 or RH 6, I forget when it happened:
<meta name="build tags"
content="dontprintnow,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,dont printnow,Exclude,
dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontprintnow,Exclude,dontpr intnow,
Exclude,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dont printnow,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow ,
dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontprintnow,dontp
and on and on.
I fact, I just found the above example by searching some old
projects. "Exclude" and "dontprintnow" were tags I had used at the
topic level..
The current cpd file, like its predecessors in earlier
releases, keeps track of this, too. So every time you get such
garbage in a topic, it gets stuffed into the cpd when you close the
project. Imagine how long that must take, especially given the
limitations of MS Access database table fields.
I don't know how the repetitions came about. It may have been
during a crash, but by the time I discovered this garbage it was
too late to trace it back. You wrote that you experienced some
hiccups, too.
As you had as many as 10 build tags, some of this junk may
still lurk in topics, despite your attempt to delete tags at the
project level.
Harvey