Problem - RESOURCE CANNOT BE FOUND

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Hi

Something has happened with some of my files which means I get an error saying the resources cannot be found (for a whole load of images) when I try to upload

So, Freeway says it will use the preview images instead, which is fine

However, when this has happened in the past, freeway has uploaded the site and the next time I uploaded then the error has not been there. Presumably, it puts the files into the resources folder and makes it good.

This time, it hasn’t done that and I get this anything error message every time I upload. Which is annoying

Anyone got an idea what I have done and what I can do to stop getting this error (apart from going through the entire site / computer finding each and every images file).

How do I get freeway to just pub the preview images into the resources folder for me to make it good?

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Don’t despair, Mr Jordan, if your missing images are still on your
computer, but have just been moved somewhere, you can re-link them.

If it’s only a couple or so, just double click on each image and then
click on ‘Locate’. Then browse to the Image wherever it is now filed.
Use the Search box, if you are not sure where it is).

If there are many, go to the ‘Edit’ menu and click on ‘Resources’.
From there you can ‘Update all’, which I think will bring up dialog
boxes fro missing images or select. Double click on the images marked
as missing, to browse to their new home, as above.

I haven’t done this for sometime, so no doubt someone will correct me
if this doesn’t work quite as I say.

You can also export the previews (select image then ‘File’ > 'Export)
and save them (in a variety of formats), wherever you wish.

HTH Colin

On 28 Nov 2008, at 12:30, wjordan wrote:

Hi

Something has happened with some of my files which means I get an
error saying the resources cannot be found (for a whole load of
images) when I try to upload

So, Freeway says it will use the preview images instead, which is fine

However, when this has happened in the past, freeway has uploaded
the site and the next time I uploaded then the error has not been
there. Presumably, it puts the files into the resources folder and
makes it good.

This time, it hasn’t done that and I get this anything error message
every time I upload. Which is annoying

Anyone got an idea what I have done and what I can do to stop
getting this error (apart from going through the entire site /
computer finding each and every images file).

How do I get freeway to just pub the preview images into the
resources folder for me to make it good?

Cheers

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Thanks Colin

It seems the image file have simply disappeared from my computer - there are over 100 of them (:

So, I’ll use your suggestion of exporting the previews…

It’s strange, though, that when this happened last time (with just a few images that I know I deleted by mistake), freeway sorted it all automatically when I uploaded the site. Freeway seemed to take the previews and place them into the resources folder at the time of upload, thus fixing it on for me on the fly

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Sometime around 29/11/08 (at 10:29 -0500) wjordan said:

It’s strange, though, that when this happened last time (with just a
few images that I know I deleted by mistake), freeway sorted it all
automatically when I uploaded the site. Freeway seemed to take the
previews and place them into the resources folder at the time of
upload, thus fixing it on for me on the fly

Your original images are not the ones in the Resources folder that
you’ll find inside your site folder. Everything in there is the
result of Freeway’s publishing process, not original content that
you’ve imported.

(BTW, you’ve never imported from that Resources folder, have you?
This could be why you’ve lost your original images. Seriously, unless
you have a good, geek-level reason for looking inside that Site
folder - Just Don’t Do It. Not now way, not no how.)

You should have an original image on disk, saved somewhere logical.
(Not anywhere within the Site folder!)

You import that into a Freeway page. Freeway generates a screen-res
preview to show in your layout, but it always goes back to the
original file and reads that whenever you preview or publish.

If you lose the original graphic file Freeway will complain that it
can’t find the original source image and that the image it outputs
may not be optimal quality. It then generates the output image
purely from the screen-resolution image data that’s embedded in your
Freeway document so you can see the image on the layout page.

Freeway 5 introduced the option to ‘detach’ an image from its
original file. This removed the nag about missing source file,
although of course you could never get better results than what was
on the page; if you scaled the image up you’d just get enlarged (and
softened) pixels, not a clean enlargement re-rendered from the full
data of the source image.

To detach an image from its source, and thus remove the nag if you’ve
lost the source image, either select it on the page and choose Item >
Modify or choose Edit > Resources, select an item marked as
‘Missing’, and click the Edit button. Either way you’ll get to the
same dialog, which has a ‘Detached’ checkbox. Click this and you
won’t be hassled for that particular missing image ever again!

Don’t do this unless you need to. But when you do need to, go right
ahead and detach at will!

k

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Are you, by any chance, using the output of one site (or another page
in the current site) as the input for these resources? Are you placing
images found in the Resources folder published by this site into the
same site?

When Freeway publishes a site, it generally deletes everything that’s
been modified since the last publish from the current Site folder as a
precursor to generating new pages and resources from scratch.

It’s a very bad idea to ever even look in the Resources folder. (I’m
kidding here, but with a purpose. Think of it as Schrödinger’s folder,
and if you look inside it, the probability wave collapses and the cat
dies/lives.) Always place images or other resources on your pages from
a folder outside of the folder where Freeway is publishing your site.
This will keep non-deterministic things from happening, generally
speaking.

Walter

On Nov 29, 2008, at 10:29 AM, wjordan wrote:

Thanks Colin

It seems the image file have simply disappeared from my computer -
there are over 100 of them (:

So, I’ll use your suggestion of exporting the previews…

It’s strange, though, that when this happened last time (with just a
few images that I know I deleted by mistake), freeway sorted it all
automatically when I uploaded the site. Freeway seemed to take the
previews and place them into the resources folder at the time of
upload, thus fixing it on for me on the fly

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Thanks a million guys, I can now see the mistakes I’ve been making - yes, been using images from one site and just dragging them across to another. Also, not been storing the images in a good place so they sometimes get deleted when I’m ‘cleaning up’ the desktop

Your help has been really useful, I appreciate it

Cheers!

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This brings us back to clarifying the Layout/Content of a typical Client Folder

YourClient Folder containing Client.freeway document, Media Folder and Site Folder

The Media folder should contain all your original images, client supplied images and text docs etc. which are then imported into the FW document.

The Site Folder contains everything that Freeway generates to display those web pages online and, as others have said and which can’t be stressed too much, is a NO GO area for the average FW user. The contents of this folder get updated every time you republish.

If you stick to this you can’t go far wrong.

David

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Schrödinger’s folder?

Walter, how do you know so damn much stuff?

On Nov 29, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

Are you, by any chance, using the output of one site (or another
page in the current site) as the input for these resources? Are you
placing images found in the Resources folder published by this site
into the same site?

When Freeway publishes a site, it generally deletes everything
that’s been modified since the last publish from the current Site
folder as a precursor to generating new pages and resources from
scratch.

It’s a very bad idea to ever even look in the Resources folder. (I’m
kidding here, but with a purpose. Think of it as Schrödinger’s
folder, and if you look inside it, the probability wave collapses
and the cat dies/lives.) Always place images or other resources on
your pages from a folder outside of the folder where Freeway is
publishing your site. This will keep non-deterministic things from
happening, generally speaking.

Walter

Robin Stark

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I first read about Schrödinder’s cat in a magazine, maybe Scientific
American or Omni. A very long time ago. But the idea got cemented in
my brain after reading Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by
Douglas Adams. In that book, the title character is telling his friend
Richard that he was once hired to find the cat in question by a group
of researchers. And Richard’s riposté to him, instantly debunking the
load of crap Dirk was trying to fling, carried the meaning of the
experiment far better than any scientific prose could ever do.

Most of the stuff rattling around in my brain has such a provenance –
a mix of high and low culture, fiction commingled with fact (or what
passes for it nowadays), all of it highly charged with humor. I’m
convinced there’s some sort of Darwinian process at work in there, in
that what wins (and thus remains to be recalled later) is usually
authoritative-sounding, if not actually authoritative.

There’s that, and I probably watch about as much television as the
average field mouse.

Walter

On Dec 2, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Robin Stark wrote:

Schrödinger’s folder?

Walter, how do you know so damn much stuff?

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You did that on purpose, right? Hold on while I get my dictionary. :wink:

On Dec 2, 2008, at 6:32 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

I first read about Schrödinder’s cat in a magazine, maybe Scientific
American or Omni. A very long time ago. But the idea got cemented in
my brain after reading Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by
Douglas Adams. In that book, the title character is telling his
friend Richard that he was once hired to find the cat in question by
a group of researchers. And Richard’s riposté to him, instantly
debunking the load of crap Dirk was trying to fling, carried the
meaning of the experiment far better than any scientific prose
could ever do.

Most of the stuff rattling around in my brain has such a provenance
– a mix of high and low culture, fiction commingled with fact (or
what passes for it nowadays), all of it highly charged with humor.
I’m convinced there’s some sort of Darwinian process at work in
there, in that what wins (and thus remains to be recalled later) is
usually authoritative-sounding, if not actually authoritative.

There’s that, and I probably watch about as much television as the
average field mouse.

Walter

On Dec 2, 2008, at 7:05 PM, Robin Stark wrote:

Schrödinger’s folder?

Walter, how do you know so damn much stuff?

Robin Stark

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And I thought Schrödinger was one of Charlie Brown’s friends.

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