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Cannot find newly-imported topics

After an import operation is completed successfully, you do not find the topics in the folder that you specified in the filemap.xml file.

This problem occurs in the following situation:
  • You converted and imported objects with file names that contained GUIDs; Content Importer used the GUIDs as the unique identifiers for the objects.
  • The repository into which you were importing content already contained objects associated with those GUIDs.

You might encounter this scenario if you publish content as DITA XML and later import it into the repository again.

When you import such content into Content Manager, the existing objects in the database are overwritten. Content Manager identifies objects by their GUIDs; the repository folders are a convenience for authors.

You can find the newly-imported content in the directory where the objects with the matching GUIDs are located.