Hi there,
ver 5.4.3,
When I go to publish prior to save FW is telling me that " One or more HTML files which do not belong to this site will be overwitten. Do you want to continue " I can cancel or say OK.By saying OK I lose all the work I have done. Can somebody explain to me please what is going on. I have tried reinstalling FW but to know use as it still does it.
Tom
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Freeway is an HTML generator, not an editor. You don’t mix and stir among the contents of your Site Folder when you work on your pages. Rather, you work in your Freeway document, which is a single binary file which describes all of the pages and all of the content within them for your entire site. It does so at a much higher level of precision than HTML is even capable of, since it is essentially a Desktop Publishing document similar to an InDesign or QuarkXPress document.
In your case, first step would be to create a new empty folder on your Mac (this can be anywhere you like) and use the File / Document Setup dialog (press the Site Folder: Select button in the middle of the first tab of this dialog) to nominate that empty folder as your Site Folder. There will be nothing in it initially, and after you publish once, you will see the entire contents of your site there. When you upload to your server using Freeway, you will synchronize this folder with the root folder of your Web server. Any changes you make to your site in Freeway will first be published into this local site folder, and then synchronized with the server, in a two-step manner. This allows you to preview your work locally (from a file:/// URL on your Mac’s filesystem) before you push it live.
It sounds to me as though you may have been experimenting with more than one Freeway document, both of which were publishing into the same folder on your Mac.
Walter
On Dec 26, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Tom Howes wrote:
Hi there,
ver 5.4.3,When I go to publish prior to save FW is telling me that " One or more HTML files which do not belong to this site will be overwitten. Do you want to continue " I can cancel or say OK.By saying OK I lose all the work I have done. Can somebody explain to me please what is going on. I have tried reinstalling FW but to know use as it still does it.
Tom
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Forgot to mention – this means that none of your work is lost, just temporarily overwritten in its HTML form. You can publish each separate Freeway document into a new, empty folder, and upload each of them to a different server or folder on the same folder, and all of your content will be right where you left it. The HTML and images and assorted other detritus are the work-product of your Freeway document, like the sheets of paper that curl out of your printer. They are not the original document themselves, and as such, are entirely replaceable. In fact, if you move any element on a page even one pixel in any direction, Freeway will entirely delete the HTML for that page and generate it over again at the next invocation of the Publish or Preview commands.
Walter
PS: I did see someone once in the late '90s who had a lot of traditional HTML experience pick up Freeway for the first time, and proceed to make a new Freeway document for each PAGE in the site. They were so used to the idea of an editor, which by design can only affect one page at a time, that they didn’t realize that Freeway was a DTP application, and thus could create entire sites (multi-page documents, like you would lay out a magazine or a book in QuarkXPress) with a single source file.
On Dec 26, 2012, at 1:42 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
It sounds to me as though you may have been experimenting with more than one Freeway document, both of which were publishing into the same folder on your Mac.
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Walter,
Thank you very much, problem resolved. Yes you are correct I was paying with the site a on different drive and thought this would be OK, guess not though–and a lesson learnt.
Many thanks again and have a happy and heathy 2013.
Tom
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