Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
I've been happily using Analyzer v2 for a few days now, and I've noticed something a bit disquieting in the Statistics pane. See the image below:
Why the wild variation in the Word Count and Segment Count columns? I'm not that fast a writer.
Why the wild variation in the Word Count and Segment Count columns? I'm not that fast a writer.
Last edited by royj on Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
Seems the image didn't make it into the post...
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Re: Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
It's there now.
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Re: Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
Hi roy
Do you know if at any time you have going intot he Tools and Options and on the Analyzer tab you have disabled the Scan?
Do you know if at any time you have going intot he Tools and Options and on the Analyzer tab you have disabled the Scan?
Richard Ferrell
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Re: Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
Not deliberately.Richard Ferrell wrote:Do you know if at any time you have going intot he Tools and Options and on the Analyzer tab you have disabled the Scan?
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Re: Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
If you delete the analyzer folder and then rescan it, it should give the correct results.
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Re: Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
I'm having a similar problem. Analyzer is telling me that I have 109 broken links in my project, but I've checked and they're NOT broken. The link that Analyzer shows as broken is not what the link is in the Flare project. I took the project home from work and tried it there and it works fine. I figured something is corrupted somewhere but don't know where to fix it. What do you mean by "delete the Analyzer folder"? Delete the program and reinstall it?Richard Ferrell wrote:If you delete the analyzer folder and then rescan it, it should give the correct results.
Dan
Re: Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
Nope. In your project folder, there will be an Analyzer folder, along with your Content, Output (if that's where you send your output), and Project folders. That Analyzer folder contains the Analyzer database for the project; if you delete it, Analyzer will recreate it (hopefully without the corruption).DanAustin wrote:I'm having a similar problem. Analyzer is telling me that I have 109 broken links in my project, but I've checked and they're NOT broken. The link that Analyzer shows as broken is not what the link is in the Flare project. I took the project home from work and tried it there and it works fine. I figured something is corrupted somewhere but don't know where to fix it. What do you mean by "delete the Analyzer folder"? Delete the program and reinstall it?Richard Ferrell wrote:If you delete the analyzer folder and then rescan it, it should give the correct results.
Dan
To bad we can't do the same thing with politicians.
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Re: Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
Well, that would make sense except that I don't have an Analyzer folder there. I'm using Analyzer v2 and Flare v4 if that has anything to do with it.
Would any of the folders in the screen grab be what I'm looking for? My project files are on my Z: drive, but these are all on the C: drive.
Dan
Would any of the folders in the screen grab be what I'm looking for? My project files are on my Z: drive, but these are all on the C: drive.
Dan
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Re: Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
andDanAustin wrote:... I took the project home from work and tried it there and it works fine...
DanDanAustin wrote:... My project files are on my Z: drive, but these are all on the C: drive...
I could be wrong but I think the reason why you are getting a broken link report is because you created the link while at home and are running analyser at work (or vice versa) and Analyzer is tripping up on the drive mappings.
The analyzer folder is in your project's directory structure:
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Re: Wild variation in Analyzer Statistics pane
Good theory, but no ... I didn't do any editing on the project at home, only checked to see if Analyzer showed the broken links there, and it did not.
Rob Hollinger from MadCap was able to clear up the issue for me. The Analyzer folder referred to earlier only resides in the project folder if the project folder is on a local drive, but mine is on a network drive. On XP, the Analyzer folder resides at C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\MadCap Software\Analyzer. On Vista, it is at C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\MadCap Software\Analyzer. Once I found that out and deleted it, the problem was solved.
Thanks all, especially Rob!
Dan
Rob Hollinger from MadCap was able to clear up the issue for me. The Analyzer folder referred to earlier only resides in the project folder if the project folder is on a local drive, but mine is on a network drive. On XP, the Analyzer folder resides at C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\MadCap Software\Analyzer. On Vista, it is at C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\MadCap Software\Analyzer. Once I found that out and deleted it, the problem was solved.
Thanks all, especially Rob!
Dan