Re: Problem :mathematica building help browser index
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- Subject: [mg41205] Re: Problem :mathematica building help browser index
- From: ctbram <ctbram at hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 03:54:45 -0400 (EDT)
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I have done a lot of research on this "help browser" problem. It appears a certain distribution of mathematica 4.2 has a number of corrupt .nb files in the documentation folder. One of these files is the browserindex.nb file in (install disk)\program files\wolfram research\mathematica\documentation\english\mainbook There are a number of other .nb files also corrupted in this distribution. There is a workaround:: (1) go to the folder above containing the browserindex.nb file and rename the file to something like browswerindex.nb.broken and then you can run mathematica and rebuild the help index. However, you will lose the information in the browserindex.nb file and some other .html functionality. or an actual solution: (1) get a new mathematica 4.2 installation cd that is not corrupted and re-install the software. Just getting an uncorrupted browserindex.nb file will not totally fix this problem. If you systematically select each .nb file in the mainbook folder you will find that a good number of the files will generate an syntax error. Editing these files you will see that at the line number of the indicated error and beyond the file contents changes from what appears to be normal .nb code to complete gibberish. On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 05:12:01 +0000 (UTC), Fred Fred <fredbe2003 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >Hi, > >I'm running Mathematica 4.2 (Win2k, 2GB RAM,2GB swap >file, sp3, administrator's rights) and I'm unable to >build the help browser; Mathematica freezes and never >ends, I have to kill the task. I read all the >available info's in the news group but couldn't find >any valuable answer to fix this problem. Mathematica >4.01 doesn't have this problem. >Could someone give me a clue to fix it? >Cheers, > >Fred > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Everything you'll ever need on one web page >from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts >http://uk.my.yahoo.com