Using "Publish" to backup site corrupts DWTs

[webmaster]

I have been using "Publish" to backup my site to a local HD directory
as I have seen recommended.

However, comma, after a few adventures I finally determined that all
the editable regions of my DWT were being removed during this process
(on the backup copy). This is not a good thing.

Am I goofing up, or, is this a bug, or ??? (FP2003)

Thanks,
WM

Why IT Doesn't Work - http://www.witdw.com

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

What Publishing options have you chosen?
Do you have optimize HTML enabled?

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[WM]

Thomas,

I publish all pages. I select remove "all HTML comments" and check all
the non-greyed boxes underneath. Hmmm. Are you going to tell me that
this tells FP to strip out the editable regions and that I am a big
dope for not figuring this out? I hope so.

Thanks,
WM

Why IT Doesn't Work - http://www.witdw.com

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you want a complete and exact backup, then you don't want to have FP remove anything.

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[WM]

Thomas,

Well, that fixed it of course. Very excellent help. Thank you.

WM

Why IT Doesn't Work - http://www.witdw.com