# Jekyll Generating but not doing anything

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-generating-but-not-doing-anything/8253>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 17, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-generating-but-not-doing-anything/8253 "2023-05-17T12:48:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![indiamcq](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/indiamcq/32/4742_2.png) [@indiamcq](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/indiamcq)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-generating-but-not-doing-anything/8253/1 "2023-05-17T12:48:05Z")

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I am starting Jekyll build but it is not ever finishing. On Windows.

```auto
>jekyll b
Configuration file: none
            Source: D:/All-SIL/_Jobs/Jobs-2022/2022-04/GPS-Sinama-dict/test
       Destination: D:/All-SIL/_Jobs/Jobs-2022/2022-04/GPS-Sinama-dict/test/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating...

```

I have rebooted.  
I have reinstalled Jekyll  
Still the Generating… is stuck. It never finishes. No files created.  
I have tried a simpler build. Same result.

What could it be?

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**Author:** ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-generating-but-not-doing-anything/8253/2 "2023-05-17T16:59:36Z")

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what is inside the source folder? is it a repo you can share? if not maybe a screenshot of it to see what is in it.

try `jekyll b --verbose` and see if it gives you anything more.

is it the same if you do jekyll serve?

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**Author:** ![indiamcq](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/indiamcq/32/4742_2.png) [@indiamcq](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/indiamcq)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 1:21am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-generating-but-not-doing-anything/8253/3 "2023-05-19T01:21:37Z")

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@rdyar Sorry for the delay I’m at a conference with little spare time.

I have another project and it builds fine.

It is the same with `jekyll serve` and also the same with `jekyll b --trace`

I removed the new files and the previous files build fine.

So the new files are named `lex-1.md` and the \_includes `lex-1.html`. The range goes up to lex-23.md

So I am testing by removing files.

It seems to be one of the files between lex-6.md and lex-10.md is causing is an issue. They were all generated by a XSLT2 transforms so should not have any encoding issues and are all almost the same.

The file name may be the issue.

I don’t have time to investigate more just now.

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**Author:** ![fabiomux](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/fabiomux/32/2656_2.png) [@fabiomux](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/fabiomux)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 7:29am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/jekyll-generating-but-not-doing-anything/8253/4 "2023-05-19T07:29:47Z")

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What’s that:

> Configuration file: none