After several years, I have a website file that’s a bit of a mess, and
in dire need of a housecleaning. The original site has had many
incremental changes, sometimes using questionable methods (such as
duplicating the site before making changes – I now do a Save As). Some
of the files have Media Folders, some don’t. The photos and graphics
are in multiple locations on my hard drive. Although the website
uploads and works perfectly, I’d like to bring some order to the chaos.
Can someone suggest a logical approach to this goal, even if it means
recreating one clean file from scratch? I’d like to ultimately delete
all previous versions and extraneous files.
Are you, as your footer indicates, still using Freeway 3.5? If you’re
using the current version (and your footer is out of date) then just
use the Save Archive feature. That will round up all the strays and
make one neat Project folder containing a Site folder, a Media folder,
and a completely new Freeway file with all internal links updated to
point to that one Project folder.
There was an AppleScript a long time ago that tried to do this, you
might look in the old (as in not the current new) KnowledgeBase to see
if there’s still a link to it there.
Other than that, it’s probably going to be a long slog through the
document, looking for all linked resources and moving them somewhere
central.
Walter
On Mar 19, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Richard Houston wrote:
Hi Gang,
After several years, I have a website file that’s a bit of a mess,
and in dire need of a housecleaning.
On Mar 19, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Are you, as your footer indicates, still using Freeway 3.5?
Yes.
There was an AppleScript a long time ago that tried to do this, you
might look in the old (as in not the current new) KnowledgeBase to see
if there’s still a link to it there.
I’ll see if I can find it.
Other than that, it’s probably going to be a long slog through the
document, looking for all linked resources and moving them somewhere
central.
Oh boy. Not sure where to start with that, but I can try figuring it
out on my own, and give a shout if I get stuck.
Thanks, Walter for the speedy reply – and on such a beautiful sunny
day here on the West Coast of the US!
There was an applescript available in September 2005 for Freeway 3.5. It
was available from a T. Payton and was called “Freeway Collector 1.0”. I
don’t know if it is still available or if T. Payton still visits this forum.
Andy
Richard Houston wrote:
On Mar 19, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
Are you, as your footer indicates, still using Freeway 3.5?
Yes.
There was an AppleScript a long time ago that tried to do this, you
might look in the old (as in not the current new) KnowledgeBase to
see if there’s still a link to it there.
I’ll see if I can find it.
Other than that, it’s probably going to be a long slog through the
document, looking for all linked resources and moving them somewhere
central.
Oh boy. Not sure where to start with that, but I can try figuring it
out on my own, and give a shout if I get stuck.
Thanks, Walter for the speedy reply – and on such a beautiful sunny
day here on the West Coast of the US!
I wrote an AppleScript back in 2001 (originally for OS9) that did much the same
sort of thing and was called FWCollect. It worked as a droplet so you could
just drop your saved Document Info (File/Document Info…) text file on it and
watch as the thing attempted to copy all of the resources to a specified
folder.
I don’t have access to FreewayActions.com at the moment to upload this but I’ll
pass the files along to Richard and upload it later tonight.
Regards,
Tim.
