Req: Resolve broken website links by moving files on local HD

[Ben]

Here's an interesting one - not sure quite whether I should be looking
for a HTML editor with site mapping features, a standalone utility or
something else. Has anyone come across a tool to repair broken links on
a website you have created (ie all your files on local HD) where files
have been moved since the original HTML was created?

I have the only available backup of a large site created by a friend
(2000+ images, several hundred HTML pages) but unfortunately they seem
to have neglected to tick the "Store folder structure" button on
whatever archiver they used. This means that all the files exist but
are stuck in a single folder. I'd like to find something that could
parse the main index.htm file and use it to rebuild the website
structure by moving all the other existing files back to where they
should be. Wishful thinking?

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

Ben

 

[Al Klein]

I have the only available backup of a large site created by a friend
(2000+ images, several hundred HTML pages) but unfortunately they seem
to have neglected to tick the "Store folder structure" button on
whatever archiver they used. This means that all the files exist but
are stuck in a single folder. I'd like to find something that could
parse the main index.htm file and use it to rebuild the website
structure by moving all the other existing files back to where they
should be. Wishful thinking?

Going through the html files by hand and recreating the site structure
would take a lot less effort than writing the program you're
envisioning.

 

[Ben]

Going through the html files by hand and recreating the site structure
would take a lot less effort than writing the program you're
envisioning.

It probably would, but there's a lot of tools already out there to parse
a local website and find broken links, build site maps etc. I thought
someone might have combined these ideas into a tool to repair the site -
the beauty of freeware to me is that you often find a small program
which someone else has created for their own use for daunting tasks like
this then released it to the community when they realise that others may
have a use for it.

B

 

[Al Klein]

It probably would, but there's a lot of tools already out there to parse
a local website and find broken links, build site maps etc. I thought
someone might have combined these ideas into a tool to repair the site -
the beauty of freeware to me is that you often find a small program
which someone else has created for their own use for daunting tasks like
this then released it to the community when they realise that others may
have a use for it.

As I said, though, why would I waste a week writing the program, when
I could rebuild the site in a few hours? Sometimes it just doesn't
pay to write a program to do something. And very few people will make
the mistake of not saving the structure twice.