Every now and then when I make a change to a site and upload it, the upload will take a very long time. I will make a small change and Freeway will seem to be uploading the entire site all over again. Was wondering if there is a way to control this.
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It helps to understand what Freeway does. There are certain things which can affect an entire site in one whack – anything to do with styles can cascade out to all pages in a site. So too can renaming a page when you had not manually set the page filenames. Altering a master page should not surprise you when all of its “children” are marked as having changes. Editing a source file, like a logo, which is referenced on more than one page, will cause all pages that include that image to republish.
Freeway does this because it is an algorithmic HTML generator, not an HTML editor. It maintains an object model of each page in your site, and all their inter-relations, and all their child objects, and notices instantly when anything in that solar system changes orbit even slightly. Then, because it doesn’t want anything to be out of date, it recalculates all of the objects that touch the changed object, which means that at the next publish, all of those related objects will be deleted from the Site folder, re-created, and thus will need to be re-uploaded (because their last-modified date will be more than a few seconds from the version last uploaded to the server).
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On Mar 11, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Steven Houtzager wrote:
Every now and then when I make a change to a site and upload it, the upload will take a very long time. I will make a small change and Freeway will seem to be uploading the entire site all over again. Was wondering if there is a way to control this.
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Walter, not my original post. But thanks so much for your frequent answers (likewise to Delta Dave and Ernie, among others). I’ve been using Freeway for a good while, but at age 70 I’m kind of low-tech. Your replies to questions like this one are very helpful to those like me, who don’t have the skills at this point in our lives to face too big a learning curve.
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I have a couple of movie files embedded in some pages and FW will reupload them from time to time.
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movie files embedded in some pages and FW will reupload them from time to time
Depending on the file sizes of these it is sometime better to take them out of the FW loop ie remove the possibility of FW wanting to upload a large file at an inopportune moment.
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How can that be done?
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How can that be done?
That will depend on how you are adding the video to the page.
What method are you using and on what page (link).
If the code was added via markup (instead of through an action) then FW will ignore it and the associated files.
I would use a similar method on a site that had a lot of linked PDFs and upload them via FTP.
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You basically just have to upload them separately, and then create your links as either absolute or relative URLs to the files. If you upload them to your server, and your server (as with all tutorials) is named example.com, then you might put them in a /files folder in your site root, and the links would look like this (in the external tab of the Edit / Hyperlink dialog):
http://example.com/files/your_pdf.pdf
You will need to work out exactly what that URL should be, but that’s the basics. Freeway lets you create links that are not to other pages in your site, and so you just treat this like that.
Now, if you want to update that PDF later, you can upload it (under the same filename) to your server, overwriting the old version in your /files folder, and you don’t have to upload from Freeway – nothing has changed from its perspective. Conversely, if you want to change the color of blue in your site header, you don’t have to wait through all of those large files uploading when you upload the HTML changes from Freeway.
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On Mar 12, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Steven Houtzager wrote:
How can that be done?
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