Confused about resource folder"

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I did not see anything about this in the tutorials and it is not in the manual.

I am getting an error on some pages about “resources cannot be found.”
I understand that means the image has been moved or is lost – but from where? Does Freeway create a resource folder of its onw? Why would the images go away?

How do I restore these images? Searcing this site has quite afew different answers fo this, but most say to browse to the image file (?) do they mean go back to my original images?

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Sometime around 10/1/09 (at 15:29 -0500) SkipII said:

I am getting an error on some pages about “resources cannot be found.”

The images that you’ve put into those pages… did you find them
within a folder called “Resources” by any chance? If so, you’re using
images that Freeway is free to delete and remake as it needs. Which
will not be helpful to you.

Rule #1: do not do anything whatsoever within the ‘site’ folder that
Freeway publishes into. And definitely don’t import images from
there. If you really want those images then copy them out to
somewhere else and use the copies.

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Its recommended to put the images you plan to use in your site in the “media” folder that freeway created when the site was first setup. This should be in the same folder that you saved your freeway site to in setup and also contains the “site folder” that Keith mentioned not to mess with. So for example if you were going to import a photo from your computers photo album into freeway it would be helpful to create a copy of the file first in the “media” folder and then import it to your freeway site.

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These are my own images. They were on a CD and I just dragged and dropped them onto the pages I was building.

With that clearer, why are they now missing? How do I restore them?

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On 10 Jan 2009, 7:54 pm, Waylen wrote:

Its recommended to put the images you plan to use in your site in the “media” folder that freeway created when the site was first setup. This should be in the same folder that you saved your freeway site to in setup and also contains the “site folder” that Keith mentioned not to mess with. So for example if you were going to import a photo from your computers photo album into freeway it would be helpful to create a copy of the file first in the “media” folder and then import it to your freeway site.

Now I’m really confused. Do I go back and get ALL of the images I ever used in building my site and copy them into the media folder? How does the site know what image is what? There is nothing in the media folder right now.

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Sometime around 10/1/09 (at 15:59 -0500) SkipII said:

These are my own images. They were on a CD

So - I presume the CD is no longer in the drive? :slight_smile:

Freeway references the original images, like other professional
layout and publishing tools. Whenever you preview or publish it
checks the original images and generates the web-optimised items from
those. This ensures maximum quality, but it does require all imported
images to be available.

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Sometime around 10/1/09 (at 16:03 -0500) SkipII said:

Now I’m really confused. Do I go back and get ALL of the images I
ever used in building my site and copy them into the media folder?
How does the site know what image is what? There is nothing in the
media folder right now.

You can keep your images wherever you like. The ‘Media’ folder is
purely there to encourage tidy behaviour! However, any image you use
must be available, meaning on a mounted volume, when you preview or
publish.

If you put an image into a page layout in InDesign, QuarkXPress,
Illustrator or any other similar application, then you removed the
volume the image was on, you wouldn’t get a high-quality print and
you may just get a blank space where the picture was on the page. All
those tools read the original image file data when printing. Freeway
does the same when publishing.

–

The thing about the Resources folder inside the Site folder is
slightly different. It turned out that this isn’t relevant to your
particular query, but here’s what happens if that’s done:

You import an image you find somewhere inside the Resources folder in
your Site folder.

You publish your work - Freeway generates a new version of the image
as part of its “always fresh, just in time” approach to image
optimising and generation process.

The next time you try to publish your work Freeway can’t find the
image you imported because it was replaced by a new one when the
previous publish process happened.

It doesn’t matter that there’s a file with the same name in the same
place, that is actually a different file. This is the correct way
for files to be tracked; it is how all the above-mentioned apps do
it, not to mention how the Mac OS itself works. It is also why we all
shouldn’t use anything found anywhere inside the Site folder - unless
we copy it out first, in which case it is no longer something Freeway
will delete and recreate.

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thatkeith,

You’ve been very patient with me on this, but it’s like I’m getting too much information now.

My question is: What do I do now? I have a lot of my site built out and nothing is in the media folder. Do I now go back and drag ALL of those images to the Media folder? How does the site know what new image in the media folder goes with the image on the site? Do I have to start all over?

Drives me NUTS that this was not part of a basic step in the tutorials.

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it’s like I’m getting too much information now.

Heh. Sorry…

My question is: What do I do now? I have a lot of my site built out
and nothing is in the media folder.

It doesn’t matter.
For images that are on the same disk as your Freeway document and
that Media folder, putting them into the Media folder involves just
moving them; your Mac (and hence Freeway) knows that they are the
same images just in a new folder.

But for images that are on different volumes - putting them into the
Media folder will involve copying them… which means the things in
the Media folder are not technically the same files.

Oh hell, I’m over-complicating things again, aren’t I? :slight_smile:

Just make sure that the CD with yyour images on is mounted in the
Finder. If that’s a problem then yes, you’ll have to (1) copy them
and then (2) reimport them.

Although - as the problem is only that some source images aren’t
there, you can ignore the warning and go ahead. As long as you don’t
enlarge the images in the page then it won’t actually need to read in
new pixels.

Drives me NUTS that this was not part of a basic step in the tutorials.

Most people just use one hard disk and don’t work from data CDs. But
I guess a note there wouldn’t be a bad idea. (The thing is, it could
end up giving everyone that imformation overload feeling…)

k

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On 10 Jan 2009, at 20:59, SkipII wrote:

These are my own images. They were on a CD and I just dragged and
dropped them onto the pages I was building.

With that clearer, why are they now missing? How do I restore them?

Freeway can’t find the originals, because they were on a CD. If you
put the CD back in, Freeway will probably find them all. Nonetheless,
it’d be a better idea to copy them off the CD and put them in a
‘Media’ folder close to your site folder.

best wishes,

Paul Bradforth

http://www.paulbradforth.com

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Sorry, I am not asking a clear question:

Even if I put the CD in, I can’t keep the CD in there all the time. How does Freeway know which images on the disc are the same as the ones on the site.

Do I have to somehow link the images on the disc to the images on the site? Does Freeway do that automatically? Even if so, what about when I pull the disc out? Did Freeway save copies?

There is nothing in the media folder right now…

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If I do copy them and put them in media folder, will Freeway automatically link the images on the site with the images in the folder?

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I made a similar mistake on my first site. What i did was to do as Keith suggests, put the CD back in and copy the images over to the media folder. When that are all there, you can double click on any ‘missing’ image in your site and select locate. Freeway the learnt the new location of the file. It worked for me and saved having to reimport everything into the site again. Hope this helps.

Bill

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On 10 Jan 2009, 9:38 pm, Bill wrote:

I made a similar mistake on my first site. What i did was to do as Keith suggests, put the CD back in and copy the images over to the media folder. When that are all there, you can double click on any ‘missing’ image in your site and select locate. Freeway the learnt the new location of the file. It worked for me and saved having to reimport everything into the site again. Hope this helps.

Bill

That’s exactly the information I now needed. Thanks, all.

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I should just add that the locate part is not ‘automated’ , you do have to select the appropriate file yourself when the window opens but its straight forward. Trust me, you won’t do it again.

Bill

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I went to “edit resources” and am more confused than ever. It lists probably 25-30 items – everything on the page, even some that look like redundancies. Some of the items were things I drew on the pages, not even outside images.

I don’t understand what happened here. Do I have to start completely from scratch?

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Bill,

What do you mean by “double click on any missing image?” When I go to preview, the “resources missing” box lists 25-30 items. Do I toggle between preview and page view to see what is nor showing up? Hard to imagine how I go down the list of items on the “missing resources” box since I don’t know visually what all the items are.

Geez…what a mess.

Do you mean in page view? > On 10 Jan 2009, 9:42 pm, SkipII wrote:

On 10 Jan 2009, 9:38 pm, Bill wrote:

I made a similar mistake on my first site. What i did was to do as Keith suggests, put the CD back in and copy the images over to the media folder. When that are all there, you can double click on any ‘missing’ image in your site and select locate. Freeway the learnt the new location of the file. It worked for me and saved having to reimport everything into the site again. Hope this helps.

Bill

That’s exactly the information I now needed. Thanks, all.

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Let’s see if i can help. I’m no pro so i may have this wrong but as i see it, Freeway can not see your images as they are no longer present on your system as the CD, freeways original reference point for your images, is no longer there. Even though you may have re titled the image and added some alt text to it in your freeway document, Freeway will still know the original ‘address’ and name of that image. When you go to preview in browser a Publish Problems window will appear showing resources cannot be found and followed by a list of the offending items. Hopefully if you have the original disc you dragged the images from, the image files will have the same names. With these images copied into the media folder you can now locate them. The Publish Problems window has an Edit Resources button. Clicking this takes you to a new window listing all the resources/media you have used. The status column will show missing for the offending items and the File column shows the name of the image you are hunting. Double click to select a missing item - or highlight it and click edit- and a further window pops up. The File tab in this window has a locate button which takes you to a finder window. From here navigate to your new media folder containing the copied in images. The image you are looking for should have exactly the same name as the missing one. Select it and choose open. Job done. Once on the same drive as your freeway project/system you will be able to move that image and freeway can track it. You can also rename it without too much trouble but generally speaking. i label up my images and and put them somewhere safe - the media folder - before i use them in my site and i then leave them alone. I hope this helps you. If not i must have the completely wrong end of the stick and i’d better leave it to someone with more knowledge. I have deleted an image from one of my own sites to give you the trail of tasks required as when doing it from memory it is easy to forget a step.

Bill
I had best go and relocate my own image now before i forget.

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Bill, awesome message. You’re on the right track. I haven’t actually loaded anything off a CD before without copying it first, but would editing the “Resources” and seeing the list of “Missing” be redeemed with putting the CD in…updating the locations of the missing items…and just “Save To Archive” and then have Freeway copy the used images in the “media” directory along with the other things it does?

Don’t fear SkipII, you’ve almost got it figured out.

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Bill,

You may not consider yourself a pro, but you could write their manual. That is the best explanation so far. Seriously, I don’t know why in their tutorial they simply don’t say “Put all the images you expect to use in the Media File.” That 12-word sentence would have saved me hours. Your message helps me recover.

Thank you !

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