What files/folders are NEEDED for distribution?

[ccardimon]

I know I should be grabbing everything under output and my user name, but there is still a bunch of garbage. Yes, I have turned on "Exclude content not linked directly or indirectly from the target."

[ChoccieMuffin]

What is your target? (Obviously not just PDF because the answer is very simple if you've got a PDF target).

Could you try publishing to a temp folder somewhere, to find out? I would have expected that Publish folder to contain everything you need.

[ccardimon]

What is your target? (Obviously not just PDF because the answer is very simple if you've got a PDF target).

Could you try publishing to a temp folder somewhere, to find out? I would have expected that Publish folder to contain everything you need.

I am outputting to WebHelp. The output folder contains an "Archive" folder of old stuff. I don't think the Archive folder should be present in the output. The only thing I can think of is, some topic still refers to an item in the Archive.

[Paulie]

Based on the description, it sounds like you want to go one folder level deeper. For example, if you have three targets (A,B and C), and you have already built each target, your output\username folder should contain sub-folders called A,B and C. If you wanted to distribute project A, you would only need to copy the A folder. All of the content related to project A should be contained within this folder.

[ChoccieMuffin]

What is your target? (Obviously not just PDF because the answer is very simple if you've got a PDF target).

Could you try publishing to a temp folder somewhere, to find out? I would have expected that Publish folder to contain everything you need.

I am outputting to WebHelp. The output folder contains an "Archive" folder of old stuff. I don't think the Archive folder should be present in the output. The only thing I can think of is, some topic still refers to an item in the Archive.

When you publish a target rather than just looking in your Output folder, all the files (and ONLY the files) that are needed for that output are published to a DIFFERENT folder. So try setting a destination and publish to that destination, then you'll get what you need without anything extraneous.

[ccardimon]

When you publish a target rather than just looking in your Output folder, all the files (and ONLY the files) that are needed for that output are published to a DIFFERENT folder. So try setting a destination and publish to that destination, then you'll get what you need without anything extraneous.

Cool! I'll try it.