Cannot create file "service.lck"

[Guest]

Am attempting to import from the internet into FP2000 a web I published years
ago from a different computer using Import Web Wizard. I specify the
location of the new web, it launches a "Create New Web " window before an
error window appears saying - Server error: Cannot create file "service.lck".
It never even gets to the prompt to ask me the URL of the website I want to
import.

Searching the hard disk for an existing copy of service.lck reveals one in
c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\_vti_pvt\. I delete the file, reboot the computer, repeat
the import attempt . Same thing. The file is back in the same directory,
possibly the parent of the one I'm trying to create. It appears that it
does create the file and then claims it can't create it.

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

Try Publishing it instead of Import.

If you're running a server on your local machine you would Publish to: http://localhost/whateveryouwannanameyourweb

 

[Guest]

Doesn't this assume you have managed to get it into Front Page somehow?

 

[=?Windows-1252?Q?Rob_Giordano_\=28Crash_Gordon=AE\]

Maybe I misunderstood..but this is *how* you get it from your online server TO your local machine.

Open FP
Open Web http://www.yourweb.com
File | Publish Web
Publish TO
http://localhost/whatever

 

[Steve Easton]

Create a new empty web on your machine first. Then open the remote web in FrontPage and try to
"Publish" it back to your new empty web.

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