Files accidentally deleted from my ftp site - can I get them back?

[Guest]

HELP! I am new to FrontPage. I took over my website from the previous author.
I made changes to my website in FrontPage and when I published the site I
kept getting messages like: ".htaccess exists on the destination but not on
the source, do you want to delete the file from the destination?" I answered,
"No" but when I got so many of these messages, I meant to click on "No to
all" but instead I clicked on "Yes, to all". Now they are gone and I can't
view my website on the Internet.
Other files that were deleted were: all the" _vti_" files; index.html; all
the "logs" files; etc.
I don't know what some of these files do. Can I recreate them in FrontPage?

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Have you got any backups at all? You can re-create most files if you
have any backups. The starting point is index.htm (or index.html)
file. This file tells you where everything is including links etc.

hth

 

[Dave B.]

Contact your host and see if they can restore the site from a backup.

 

[Andrew Murray]

I assume you have made a back up of these files on your computer? Just
republish the site.

 

[Steve Easton]

..htaccess is used on an Apache / Unix server.

Have your host reinstall the FrontPage extensions, or do it yourself if you have the Web
Masters Cpanel.

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[Ronx]

If it's an FTP site, then _vti* files should not be there, and it does not
matter if they are gone.
I have never known FrontPage to delete a .htaccess file except when
publishing to a Windows server. Windows servers do not use .htaccess
files.

If the remote site had FrontPage extensions, then re-install the
extensions, and NEVER use FTP again. Publish using a location similar to
http://www.example.com (replace www.example.com with your own domain).

If your local site is still intact, republish it.