Newbie Supreme said:
I've seen this problem on several posts, some of them pretty old, with no
solutions. I am running Windows XP Professional and Office XP Professional.
I also have FrontPage 2000.
In FrontPage, in an open web, any attempt to File-->Save As results in a
crash and error report. At first the error report event would open a web
page claiming there were updates, and I was instructed to download and
install the Office 2000 updates (I assume because of FrontPage, since I
already was completely up tto date w/ Office XP). After downloading all the
required 2000 updates, the problem still exists. All of the fixes listed on
Microsoft's support articles with the problem and similar ones did nothing
(those other posts claimed same thing; none of the suggested fixes worked).
Has ANYONE figured out what the deal is with this? Surely more people must
be running FP 2000 on a Windows XP machine.
Please help, the use of Frontpage is vital to my sustenance.
Thanks for any help
Newbie Supreme
Does FrontPage crash when you are viewing a different web site too?
If yes, then I'd do a reinstall again.... likewise delete any *.web files on
your computer, delete the that "prf" file that contains your toolbar
preferences (I forgot the name, CMDUI.prf or something).
Also check to see if your "Web Folders" allow you to log into the site
without opening FrontPage. ("web folders" run on WebDav and allows some
limited manipulation and upload of files to a FrontPage web)
If NO, then check this;
- publish the web to a different server, if the error repeats it's corrupted
headers
- open EVERY file in the root of the site one at a time
- while open, switch to the HTML view, check for corruption of the headers,
it should look like:
<html>
<head>
<title>stuff</title>
<meta...>
<meta...>
<script>
javascript
</script
</head>
<body>
(In summary of course; but note no extra lines, javascript is IN the header
and not above/below NO LINE BREAKS SHOULD APPEAR IN META-TAGS, etc.)
FrontPage2000 reads the headers of the files to display the icons and page
titles in the save as dialogue box, some types of mistakes in headers will
cause a hard-crash of FrontPage when it gets to them because the save as box
is too dumb to deal with parsing the headers properly.
The same behavior will be exhibited using the "Open" box that has a similar
display.
One trick you can do is make a bunch of folders (named 1,2,3,4,etc.) drag
and drop the files in to the folders in small groups of 5-6. (FrontPage
should automatically update the hyperlinks, so you can do this on a live
web.) Then, drag the files back out one folder at a time, and check for
crashing each time. When the crashing starts again, you just identifed one
of the files that you just moved has the problem. Repeat to narrow it down
to the specific file That will give you a starting point.
What exactly is wrong with the file, may be difficult to figure out, but
once you know which one you can post the code or a link and someone will
figure it out for you.
I just dealt with this myself. Huge pain in the butt.
I hope this helps.
