Saving Images HELP!!

[Guest]

My images when added to the page would automatically save in the images folder. After installing FP 2003, they save in the folder from whence i import them. When auto-thumbnailing them they save in an obscure temp folder, where i can't find them

Q - Which setting and where is responsible for this nonsense

I have already unchecked tools>page options> authoring>Browse-timre web components..

 

[Jim Buyens]

This usually occurs because you didn't open a Web site
before you opened a page. Always open the site first.

FP2003 is actually better than earlier versions at
prompting you to save external images inside your Web
site. However, you'll still encounter the least difficulty
if you first add any new image to your Web site, and only
then add it to a page.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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-----Original Message-----
My images when added to the page would automatically save

in the images folder. After installing FP 2003, they save
in the folder from whence i import them. When auto-
thumbnailing them they save in an obscure temp folder,
where i can't find them.

Q - Which setting and where is responsible for this nonsense?

I have already unchecked tools>page options>

authoring>Browse-timre web components...

 

[Guest]

When you save, FP will show a dialog box with the particulars. You can change directories (folders) there
I usually keep my thumbnails in the same image directory containing the images for the particular event or catagory. It makes cleanup much easier than looking for 100 thumbnails among 1000 in a generic directory.

 

[E. T. Culling]

In other words.... import the image into the image folder before adding it
to your page (with the whole site open, of course.
Eleanor

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

The file specific links will only occur if you don't open a FP Web to work in, and if you don't import your images before you use
them
- if you do both of the above, FP will create relative links you won't have to manage outside of FP

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| Thanks, Jim for your reply.
|
| Must this be of concern:
| I do not use FP extension to FTP.
| Now, when I intelink pages, FP links to the directory path, instead of the absolute within the site.
|
| Do these links change into absolute, when FTPing with cuteftp, or must I correct all these links?
|
| Thanks!!!!!!

 

[Guest]

Stefan,

thanks for your reply.

Been working with FP since 1997, and never had this problem.

I am concerned, because I do not ftp using the confining extensions. I simply use cuteftp.

These interlinked images and pages will not work on my cpanel server, unless I publish via FP Extensions.

Until yesterday, everything went fine, images, whether directly copied from a site, copied from another page in any one of my sites, or inserted from within the particular image folder of the particular site were always saved as ..imagename.gif (jpg)

I always open the web, before I edit pages. (What else?)

This time, I have imported the image to the image folder within the web site (top-biz).

I insert it into the page. N-O dialogue comes up, and it saves it with the diretory path:
file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/My Webs 450 MB/TOPBIZ/images/20.jpg
when I auto-thumbnail it:
file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files/FrontPageTempDir/20_small.jpg

Looking in Temporary Internet Files - THERE IS N-O FOLDER(!) 'FrontPageTempDir' ..., searching for the image '20_small.jpg', the XP search engine does not find it(!)

The links within the site used to be saved as ..page.htm

Now they are being saved as:
<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%20Documents/My%20Webs%20450%20MB/TOPBIZ/ebaystore.htm">

Could there be something wrong with the setting?

I won't use server extensions to upload. Is there a setting for me to change?

Thanks!!!!!!!!!

Ina

 

[Ronx]

There are two ways to reach the super-hidden FrontPage temp folder:
1) Log on to Windows as another user with Administration rights, and browse
to the folder using Windows Explorer - you cannot do this using your own
user-name.

2) Open a command window and open the folder using DOS commands.
--
Ron
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

Stefan,

thanks for your reply.

Been working with FP since 1997, and never had this problem.

I am concerned, because I do not ftp using the confining extensions. I simply use cuteftp.

These interlinked images and pages will not work on my cpanel server,

unless I publish via FP Extensions.

Until yesterday, everything went fine, images, whether directly copied

from a site, copied from another page in any one of my sites, or inserted
from within the particular image folder of the particular site were always
saved as ..imagename.gif (jpg)

I always open the web, before I edit pages. (What else?)

This time, I have imported the image to the image folder within the web site (top-biz).

I insert it into the page. N-O dialogue comes up, and it saves it with the diretory path:
file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/My Webs 450 MB/TOPBIZ/images/20.jpg
when I auto-thumbnail it:
file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Local Settings/Temporary

Internet Files/FrontPageTempDir/20_small.jpg

Looking in Temporary Internet Files - THERE IS N-O FOLDER(!)

'FrontPageTempDir' ..., searching for the image '20_small.jpg', the XP
search engine does not find it(!)

 

[Wally S]

I also use a lot of photos and I FTP my pages to my server. First, you drag
the photo from from Windows Explorer, wherever it is, into your FP folder
pane, wherever you want it to go. Then, when you want to put the photo on a
page, you drag it from the FP folder pane onto the page.

I never use auto-thumbnail. I make my own thumbnails with an image editor.
That way I can get exactly what I want and put them where I want them.

Wally S

My images when added to the page would automatically save in the images

folder. After installing FP 2003, they save in the folder from whence i
import them. When auto-thumbnailing them they save in an obscure temp
folder, where i can't find them.

 

[Ronx]

My reply was simply "how to get to the FP temp folder". If you did open
the FP temp folder it is unlikely you would find the images anyway - FP
often saves them there with a temporary filename - especially if they have
not yet been saved to the web.

As far as your Image problem is concerned, you appear to be doing
everything the same way I do for my FTP sites (except I use WS-FTP to
upload.) This method (open web, import images to folder in web, place on
page from that folder, auto-thumbnail, save page and thumbnails) works
correctly for almost every FP user - the failures have usually missed a
step (one came back to the forum and admitted they did not have a web open
after all.)
--
Ron
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

Ronx,

thanks for your reply. However, it would be impossible timewise, as well

as extremely ridiculous each time to fetch my thumbnails in an exterior
folder, which I have to uncover first. Am working with dozens of images
several times a day.

Secondly, if FP saves my thumbnails this way, they won't be visible on the page, even after

1. saving them
2. finding them
3. importing them from within

Again, wouldn't you agree, saving thumbnails IN the image folder would make sense?

There MUST be a different way to change the settings back to simply saving

..image_small.gif IN THE IMAGE FOLDER... itself, as it was (how

beautiful) only 36 hours ago...