Help with Folder Capitalization Issues in Frontpage 2003

[brookswhitmoreparker]

Hi:

I am trying to cleanup our work website. The previous designer, if you
could call him that, somehow created two folders on our server for
pictures, one of which is titled "images" and the other "Images"

I don't know that much about web design, but it seems that the
capitalization makes a big difference and if one image is located in
the "Images" folder but the actual picture is in the "images" folder,
than the image will not appear on the website.

Thus, my problem with front page is as follows: I was able to copy all
images into both folders, so I have two folders with the identically
same file content, the only difference being the capital "I" and
lower case "i" of the actual folder names. In frontpage, I am trying
to rename or redirect the location of each picture to only one folder,
so I can delete the other folder (It contains about 70 MB worth of
stuff, and I have two, thus chewing up an extra 70 MB on my server)
The problem is that I cannot get the changes in Frontpage to save. If
I point to a picture in "images" that was located in "Images" and make
the changes and save, they will not load up to the web server, nor will
it stay the same on the actual page.

The best example I can show is through these links:

http://www.clearwaterconservancy.org/outreach.htm

Notice the missing photo.

The original location:

http://www.clearwaterconservancy.org/images/be-01-kids_at_table.jpg

However, the actual picture exists at

http://www.clearwaterconservancy.org/Images/be-01-kids_at_table.jpg

Yet I cannot get frontpage to save this new location.

Are there any ways to correct this, our point all images within a
website so a cetain folder such as the "Images" folder" without havin
to change each picture that currently points to the "image" folder??

Thank you,
Brooks

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

When your site is hosted on Unix/Linux, then case is a issue, and lowercase should be always be
used.

Under Windows, case doesn't matter, so when you rename the path, Windows will not update the link as
nothing as has changed. The best solution is to make sure all of the images are in the "images"
folder, then do a search and replace in HTML/Code View for:

Images

and replace with:

images

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[Paul S. Wolf]

Hi:

I am trying to cleanup our work website. The previous designer, if you
could call him that, somehow created two folders on our server for
pictures, one of which is titled "images" and the other "Images"

I don't know that much about web design, but it seems that the
capitalization makes a big difference and if one image is located in
the "Images" folder but the actual picture is in the "images" folder,
than the image will not appear on the website.

Thus, my problem with front page is as follows: I was able to copy all
images into both folders, so I have two folders with the identically
same file content, the only difference being the capital "I" and
lower case "i" of the actual folder names. In frontpage, I am trying
to rename or redirect the location of each picture to only one folder,
so I can delete the other folder (It contains about 70 MB worth of
stuff, and I have two, thus chewing up an extra 70 MB on my server)
The problem is that I cannot get the changes in Frontpage to save. If
I point to a picture in "images" that was located in "Images" and make
the changes and save, they will not load up to the web server, nor will
it stay the same on the actual page.

The best example I can show is through these links:

http://www.clearwaterconservancy.org/outreach.htm

Notice the missing photo.

The original location:

http://www.clearwaterconservancy.org/images/be-01-kids_at_table.jpg

However, the actual picture exists at

http://www.clearwaterconservancy.org/Images/be-01-kids_at_table.jpg

Yet I cannot get frontpage to save this new location.

Are there any ways to correct this, our point all images within a
website so a cetain folder such as the "Images" folder" without havin
to change each picture that currently points to the "image" folder??

Thank you,
Brooks

You're obviously hosted on a Unix/Linux server, where "Images" and
"images" are separate and unique directories. Windows servers (and
programs like Front Page, which use the windows operating system ignore
the capitalization differences (and don't let you have directories with
names the same except for the capitalization. It's best to avoid
capitalization of any directory or file names expressly for that reason.

The following should work to solve your problem:

Throughout the following process, when FrontPage asks if you want to
update the links, say YES.

With FrontPage open to the REMOTE (Live) site, in the folder view,
rename the "Images" directory to something OTHER than "Images" or
"images", like "images2".

Do the same to the "images" directory, calling it "images3".

Now drag all the images from the "images2" directory to the "images3"
directory.

Delete the images2 directory, which should now be empty.

Rename "images3" to "images"

To be sure, have FrontPage recalculate all links.

Now, republish the entire site back to your local copy. All the links
throughout the site should have been adjusted to use "images".