Help. I have JPEG’s and PNG images in my Media folder. I drag an image onto my page and it looks great. The problem is it does not publish. The images are not in the Site Folder after publishing. The outline is there with the ALT file name. Any help would be appreciates.
Hi Jerry,
I’m away from my old computer (which runs Freeway under Mojave) so I can’t test this until next week.
Do the images appear when you preview your site locally (before uploading)?
Hi Jeremy,
The images appear when viewing locally.
In that case, this is probably an upload problem rather than a publish problem.
If you’re uploading within Freeway, that should upload everything that is needed.
If you’re uploading with a third-party application (Cyberduck, Transmit, etc.), it’s better to use a synchronise command in that application than to upload manually. The best way to do this is:
- Choose File Copy upload in Freeway’s Upload dialog, and use this to “upload” (copy) the published files to a local folder. Choose or create an empty folder initially, then use the same folder each time (Freeway should remember the folder if you save the document, and it will only copy changed files).
- Use the Synchronise command in Cyberduck or Transmit (etc.) to synchronise this folder with your online folder. This should upload any files that have changed.
If you upload manually (e.g. look for files that have changed and upload them individually) it’s easy to make mistakes.
Hi Jeremy,
I am still having the same problem.
If I create a new page in the 2025 folder and drag some random PNG’s and JPEG’s into the page and then publish it.
As you can see on the attached index page on line 120, why is it pointing to src=“…/Gallery%202024/Resources/seethevideo1h.jpeg”
It should be Gallery 2025, not 2024. And then it adds a “1h” to seethevideo.jpeg.
Same problem on line 136 adding a “3” to seethevideo.jpeg.
Please see attached index.html along with the screen shots.
I use FETCH to upload the changed files by date after publishing. It seems to have always worked well for me.
The screen shot below is what this sample page should look like taken from Freeway.
Sincerely,
Jerry Jambazian
Photographer for the City of Temple City and
Temple City Unified School District
9136 Las Tunas Dr
Temple City, CA 91780
626 643-9460
(Attachment index.html is missing)
Freeway sometimes adds numbers and letters to graphic files in order to distinguish them from other graphic files with the same name. This happens because (e.g.) apple.jpg might be published at different sizes in different places, or it might be sliced into multiple images (hence: apple.jpg, apple1.jpg, apple1a.jpg etc.)
It’s difficult for me to identify which graphics need to be uploaded unless you provide a link to the actual page(s) on which they are missing.
I checked whether it is possible to synchronise folders automatically in Fetch. The Fetch page on their website says (under “Features you’ll love”): “* Synchronize folders using the Mirror command”.
Thanks Jeremy,
I will try some of your remedies.
I tried attaching some screenshots and the HTML file but your Softpress servers rejected them.
Regards,
Jerry
If the HTML page is online, you could provide a link to it (e.g. view in a browser, and copy/paste the link from the browser address bar).
Thanks Jeremy,
The link to the sample page that have some random graphics is given below.
The one thing I can’t figure out is why the resource points to the 2023 folder when I created the page in the 2025 folder.
I tried even changing the name of the graphic adding a “25” to it and the same thing.
I think I see one thing here.
You have a space in your path, and that’s generally a bad thing. Check carefully how you named the folder. If this is in your Freeway document, you should be able to fix it there.
Also, Freeway is very aggressive about never duplicating a resource if it can help it. The goal is to reduce the total “slug size” of the uploaded site. If this image is identical (bit for bit) with the same image on a different page at a different relative URL, Freeway is going to insist on using that in every case.
Walter
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Yes. Freeway avoids duplicating resources, and will reuse resources that have already been published (and may be in a different folder).
The space in the path probably doesn’t matter. It looks untidy, but Freeway percent-encodes the space (“Gallery 2024” becomes “Gallery%202024” with the space character represented by “%20”) so it should still work.
[Xway replaces spaces with dashes to avoid this: multiple spaces become a single dash.]
Thank you Walter. This makes sense. I will try it.