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Isidore
I'm about to move my FrontPage site to a new host. The old host
(Earthlink - AVOID THEM) has been completely unresponsive in
maintaining my FP extensions and has refused to take responsibility
for their breakdown.
They also refused to do a backup for me. One of the symptoms of the
breakdown is that I can't publish my site either to my local computer
or to another host. (I also can't recalculate links or start a
discussion group, but that's another story). Consequently, the only
way I could back up the latest version of the site was via FTP. I
know this is a no-no, but since I've lost almost all of my FP
functionality anyway, that's the only thing I could do.
My plan is to rebuild the site locally to the best of my ability and
then upload it to the new host. One option I'm considering is to
remove all FrontPage components and then, when I'm sure everything is
clean, start reintroducing them.
Quetion 1: If I upload a site via FTP, can I turn it back into a
FrontPage site at a later date? Or must I recreate the whole site
locally in FP first?
Question 2: During Earthlink's attempt to reinstall the extensions,
all of my subwebs were turned into regular folders. Anyone have a
suggestion on how to remedy that?
I'm so frustrated with the problems this breakdown has caused that I'm
prepared to give on on FP altogether. I won't, because I'm used to
the site management interface, but this has been a horrific
experience.
I welcome any words of advice from anyone who has experienced a
similar nightmare.
I'm currently using FP2003, though the site was built with earlier
veisons.
Thanks in advance,
Isidore
(Earthlink - AVOID THEM) has been completely unresponsive in
maintaining my FP extensions and has refused to take responsibility
for their breakdown.
They also refused to do a backup for me. One of the symptoms of the
breakdown is that I can't publish my site either to my local computer
or to another host. (I also can't recalculate links or start a
discussion group, but that's another story). Consequently, the only
way I could back up the latest version of the site was via FTP. I
know this is a no-no, but since I've lost almost all of my FP
functionality anyway, that's the only thing I could do.
My plan is to rebuild the site locally to the best of my ability and
then upload it to the new host. One option I'm considering is to
remove all FrontPage components and then, when I'm sure everything is
clean, start reintroducing them.
Quetion 1: If I upload a site via FTP, can I turn it back into a
FrontPage site at a later date? Or must I recreate the whole site
locally in FP first?
Question 2: During Earthlink's attempt to reinstall the extensions,
all of my subwebs were turned into regular folders. Anyone have a
suggestion on how to remedy that?
I'm so frustrated with the problems this breakdown has caused that I'm
prepared to give on on FP altogether. I won't, because I'm used to
the site management interface, but this has been a horrific
experience.
I welcome any words of advice from anyone who has experienced a
similar nightmare.
I'm currently using FP2003, though the site was built with earlier
veisons.
Thanks in advance,
Isidore