Problem deleting message files from discussion subweb.

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Stan Hilliard

I am using FP2000, Windows98SE, and dialup to a my FP discussion
subweb on a Windows server.

I am deleting some junk message files that contained links that
someone put there to increase the google rating of there pages. They
were individual messages -- that is, there were no replies to them. I
deleted several such messages one at a time.

When I delete a message, sometimes it deletes OK but sometimes I get
the following error:

"An error occurred accessing your FrontPage web files: Authors - if
authoring against a web server, please contact the web master for this
server's site. WebMasters - please see the server's system log for
more details. [OK]"

When I try again to delete the file it deletes OK.

The discussion looks OK with a browser, but with FrontPage I can see
many duplicate files with the names and contents of the files that I
deleted. There may be six to 10 duplicates. They do not show up in the
browser, but they are there.
(I cannot tell whether those files replaced good messages.)

Q1 -- Why the message sometimes when I try to delete a message file?

Q2 -- Why do additional multiple files appear with the names and
contents of the deleted files?

Q3 -- How can I fix this problem?

Advice will be appreciated,
Stan Hilliard
 
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Stan Hilliard

How to Edit/Delete Articles in a FrontPage Discussion Web
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q196126
Click to expand...

My problem now is to get rid of the duplicate message files that are
in my /disk1_sam/ folder. They don't show up in the forum but seem
like they don't belong. Does anyone know why they are there?

I have been able to delete posts in the past. I have been thinking
about trying to delete them on my PC and them publish the subweb back.
 
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Stefan B Rusynko

Don't publish a disc based DW to a server based one or you will most likely clobber the online posts and rest the server post
counter
- when you publish FP does not transfer the hidden web configuration files, but generates them online from the FP SE

You should not have duplicate posts unless you have been incorrectly editing or publishing your DW
- never delete posts (just edit them) and run a Tools Recalculate Hyperlinks to allow FP to generated a fresh set of configuration
files

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| >How to Edit/Delete Articles in a FrontPage Discussion Web
| >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q196126
|
| My problem now is to get rid of the duplicate message files that are
| in my /disk1_sam/ folder. They don't show up in the forum but seem
| like they don't belong. Does anyone know why they are there?
|
| I have been able to delete posts in the past. I have been thinking
| about trying to delete them on my PC and them publish the subweb back.
 
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Stan Hilliard

Don't publish a disc based DW to a server based one or you will most likely clobber the online posts and rest the server post
counter
- when you publish FP does not transfer the hidden web configuration files, but generates them online from the FP SE
Click to expand...

I am not thinking that my PC web is disc based. I have PWS and
extensions on my PC and I address it with a URL type of name:

http://tower/tsamplingforum16/forum.htm

I thought that makes it NOT disc based, is that correct?

I have had the dates on posts change, except the dates that are part
of the message text, when I changed Internet providers and published
from one server to another. Is this to be expected?
You should not have duplicate posts unless you have been incorrectly editing or publishing your DW
- never delete posts (just edit them) and run a Tools Recalculate Hyperlinks to allow FP to generated a fresh set of configuration
files
Click to expand...

I think that the reason I have duplicate message files that do not
show up in the discussion TOC is that I incorrectly edited messages on
the server.

(I have never published from the PC to the server. I have only tested
discussions that I published to the PC.)

Contrary to the MS recommendation, I have deleted messages on the
server successfully many times over the years. But I always deleted
one file at a time and then recalculated-hyperlinks and verified that
it worked with my browser before deleting another.

But recently I got impatient and selected several files and tried to
delete them in one step. I believe that this is how I screwed up.

As far as I know I lost two posts, but have copies on my PC and can
paste the back to the server.

I have multiple copies (6 to 10) of some files on the server that do
not show up on the TOC, thankfully. I think they happened when I
stupidly tried to delete a group of junk messages in one step, as I
described.

I verified again today that I can successfully delete discussion
message files on the server. I deleted six of them. I did this one at
a time and recalculated hyperlinks in between. (That takes a long time
but it worked -- as it has for me many times in the past.)

So in spite of what MS recommends, "nothing succeeds like success".

I say this because if I am right some people can benefit from it.

There is a recent rash of posts, possibly by robots, possibly not,
that post messages full of links so that Google will up their rating.
These posts are so frequent on my discussion that they would make it
unusable if I couldn't get rid of them. I recently an getting about
50% of the posts being such junk. They usually have Korean text and
titles.

I invite one or more of you to test my method of deleting message
files to verify whether or not you can reproduce my results. (Use a
test web in case it doesn't work for you.)

Sincerely, Stan Hilliard
 

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