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Here are three emails that were rejected (said I couldn’t do it), I think they went in with my gmail addy!

I feel I’m stuck in a mess, I’ve no apostrophes in any of my Resource files or the Media file which holds all my images in Sweater Images.

My site has run for ages with apostrophes in the past. Anyway I now seem to have my Resource Folder not register in Freeway.

Carolyn

HI Simon, thanks for replying. I’m trying to follow all the suggestions.

It sounds like you’re renaming the files inside your Resources folder,
Yes I am but also I renamed everything in Freeway too (the main images and the pop up windows too.

rather than renaming the files in Freeway. While this would work once
if uploading with Transmit, the files using the apostrophe will be
written again the next time you publish from Freeway.

If this is the case, what you may need to do is rename your items in
Freeway to remove the apostrophes, probably a good idea to remove your
Resources folder from your server and in your site folder (using the
Finder) as well, just to remove duplicate files.
I removed the Resources folder from the server (a couple of times and re uploaded) but are you saying I should remove the Resources folder from my finder, check everything in Freeway and re publish?

After removing the
apostrophes from Freeway, you should be able to upload and all the
files and links will be written to your site correctly.

I’ll give that a try, thanks.

Hi Simon… again,

I get a resources window with ‘edit’ in it and when I look down the list. all the pop up window images are ‘missing’. I spent a lot of time setting them up… now what. Should I go to the server and get back what I uploaded yesterday after all my corrections (apostrophies and capitals changed)?

Hi Again Simon,
I just removed my Resources folder from the finder and now cannot seem to upload my site from Freeway as I keep getting told that the resouces could not be found! What do I do now. The site is still there but I’ve no resources. What does this mean?

thanks, Carolyn

Carolyn - As I said in a previous post you have to tell Freeway where to find your renamed media files.

This is what you do in Edit>Resources

As you have already seen Freeway is telling you that the status of these files is ‘Missing’

Click the file name in the resources window then when the file is highlighted click the Edit button down the bottom right.

This then opens a new window which has a button called Locate on the right.

Click on this and then through the finder select your renamed file on your hard disk (select the file then click the Open button bottom right) and if you have done as I suggested in a previous post you will have all your media files stored in one folder.

And repeat this for all the missing files.

At some point Freeway may tell you there are other missing files in this location agree that and it may do a lot of the donkey work for you…

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Hi Dave, I printed out your previous instructions and went through the files one by one in Edit Recources so that all the images on Gallery page were in the same file: Sweater Images.

When I Preview or Preview in Browser every change I’ve made is there with nothing extraneous sneaking in. It looks great, just the way I want it.

I published it and uploaded it to my server… guess what…no changes whatsoever even when I refresh the pages, images are missing, and some distsoreted and in the wrong place altoghether.

I added an HTML credit underneath my photo on my home page… not there. My Gallery page is still the same - mucked up, and there is still Yarn-Neeldes-Email in blue which was a Gif I was experimenting with but ditched, deleting it from all the files where I found it both on my hard drive and on my server using Transmit.

I still think there is something wrong with uploading from Freeway for me as I’ve had more progress with Transmit. I would love to just be able to do the one step with Freeway.

Also, have I looked at my stite onlin too soon, should I wait?

thanks, Carolyn


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There may be server cacheing issues there but that still does not explain all of the problems.

From what I can see there are still some stray apostrophes in there as well.

It may well be worth one of us having a look at your Freeway file to see if we can spot something obvious - how big is it?

Ctrl Click on the file in the Finder and Get Info and let us know.

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Couple of thoughts. Have you tried taking ALL your existing files off
the server with Transmit before uploading your recent modded site
again with Freeway to ensure that only the most recent files are there?

Have you checked your pages for doubled files ie click the little
triangle next to Site in the column on the left of the Freeway window
so it becomes Page? Then you can see all the elements on the page. I
have found esp after reapplying a master and when using layers for
instance, that one can end up with a lot of duplicate elements. Click
each element in the Page column and it will highlight on the page. If
you see empty appearing objects it could be that you have duplicates
layered below items and these just might disturb the visible top
elements, if you see what I mean. As I say, just a thought, and maybe
not relevant to your problem but it doesn’t do any harm to clear out
redundant objects.

Pete

On 30 Nov 2007, at 17:40, CarolynMB wrote:

Hi Dave, I printed out your previous instructions and went through
the files one by one in Edit Recources so that all the images on
Gallery page were in the same file: Sweater Images.

When I Preview or Preview in Browser every change I’ve made is
there with nothing extraneous sneaking in. It looks great, just the
way I want it.

I published it and uploaded it to my server… guess what…no
changes whatsoever even when I refresh the pages, images are
missing, and some distsoreted and in the wrong place altoghether.

I added an HTML credit underneath my photo on my home page… not
there. My Gallery page is still the same - mucked up, and there is
still Yarn-Neeldes-Email in blue which was a Gif I was
experimenting with but ditched, deleting it from all the files
where I found it both on my hard drive and on my server using
Transmit.

I still think there is something wrong with uploading from Freeway
for me as I’ve had more progress with Transmit. I would love to
just be able to do the one step with Freeway.

Also, have I looked at my stite onlin too soon, should I wait?

thanks, Carolyn


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Hi Pete,
I dumped some double files earlier, I found an ‘a’ added to a
duplicate. I’ve followed your steps looking through each page
element, everything seemed OK. I cleaned out my server, and
uploaded…Freeway didn’t put everything where it needed to be and
my site disappeared so I corrected that manually with Transmit and my
site is back but just the same.

When I was dragging files into place in Transmit I watched and
noticed I twice the number of Resources as somewhere along the line
everything was duplicated and an ‘a’ added. I guess I have to sit
down and delete all of these!!!

Seems to be stuck in this ‘mess’ and no matter what I’ve done, who’s
advice I’ve followed I seem to be unable to correct/change it
further! I’ve deleted stuff I don’t want and added one or two more
things, result: the old stuff (supposedly deleted) is still there,
the new stuff does not appear.

Still struggling, still open to any suggestions.

	Thanks, Carolyn

On Nov 30, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Pete MacKenzie wrote:

Couple of thoughts. Have you tried taking ALL your existing files off
the server with Transmit before uploading your recent modded site
again with Freeway to ensure that only the most recent files are
there?

Have you checked your pages for doubled files ie click the little
triangle next to Site in the column on the left of the Freeway window
so it becomes Page? Then you can see all the elements on the page. I
have found esp after reapplying a master and when using layers for
instance, that one can end up with a lot of duplicate elements. Click
each element in the Page column and it will highlight on the page. If
you see empty appearing objects it could be that you have duplicates
layered below items and these just might disturb the visible top
elements, if you see what I mean. As I say, just a thought, and maybe
not relevant to your problem but it doesn’t do any harm to clear out
redundant objects.

Pete

On 30 Nov 2007, at 17:40, CarolynMB wrote:

Hi Dave, I printed out your previous instructions and went through
the files one by one in Edit Recources so that all the images on
Gallery page were in the same file: Sweater Images.

When I Preview or Preview in Browser every change I’ve made is
there with nothing extraneous sneaking in. It looks great, just the
way I want it.

I published it and uploaded it to my server… guess what…no
changes whatsoever even when I refresh the pages, images are
missing, and some distsoreted and in the wrong place altoghether.

I added an HTML credit underneath my photo on my home page… not
there. My Gallery page is still the same - mucked up, and there is
still Yarn-Neeldes-Email in blue which was a Gif I was
experimenting with but ditched, deleting it from all the files
where I found it both on my hard drive and on my server using
Transmit.

I still think there is something wrong with uploading from Freeway
for me as I’ve had more progress with Transmit. I would love to
just be able to do the one step with Freeway.

Also, have I looked at my stite online too soon, should I wait?

thanks, Carolyn


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I wonder if the a files are duplicates like I mentioned. Check in the
Page column in Freeway for duplicate files appended with a and delete
them there. Be careful though, only delete genuine duplicates that
you know you don’t want to appear in the site by clicking on the item
and then looking to see what is active on the page. Freeway loves to
append a b c to untitled and vaguely titled files. I find it is a
good idea to check what elements are called in the Inspector palette
and perhaps rename them to something that fits with your logic. Then
you can identify them once they are in the published folders of your
Freeway site.

Circumstantially, I would surmise that if you took everything down
off the server (folders 'n all) and had a clean slate, and then,
after uploading, Freeway put things in the wrong place (viewed on
your server) then your Freeway site folder contains the problem. You
shouldn’t need to drag anything around with Transmit that is in the
Freeway generated site folders. Doing so will break links etc. Other
linked-to files not embedded in the site would need dragging to their
locations though.

Can you remember what were the elements you “corrected manually with
Transmit” that brought your site back to some sort of life?

In Transmit you can also look at the dates and times when the files
were placed on your server. That can give you a clue as to the
history of the operations.

Pete

On 1 Dec 2007, at 04:55, CarolynBarnett wrote:

Hi Pete,
I dumped some double files earlier, I found an ‘a’ added to a
duplicate. I’ve followed your steps looking through each page
element, everything seemed OK. I cleaned out my server, and
uploaded…Freeway didn’t put everything where it needed to be and
my site disappeared so I corrected that manually with Transmit and my
site is back but just the same.

When I was dragging files into place in Transmit I watched and
noticed I twice the number of Resources as somewhere along the line
everything was duplicated and an ‘a’ added. I guess I have to sit
down and delete all of these!!!

Seems to be stuck in this ‘mess’ and no matter what I’ve done, who’s
advice I’ve followed I seem to be unable to correct/change it
further! I’ve deleted stuff I don’t want and added one or two more
things, result: the old stuff (supposedly deleted) is still there,
the new stuff does not appear.

Still struggling, still open to any suggestions.

  Thanks, Carolyn

On Nov 30, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Pete MacKenzie wrote:

Couple of thoughts. Have you tried taking ALL your existing files off
the server with Transmit before uploading your recent modded site
again with Freeway to ensure that only the most recent files are
there?

Have you checked your pages for doubled files ie click the little
triangle next to Site in the column on the left of the Freeway window
so it becomes Page? Then you can see all the elements on the page. I
have found esp after reapplying a master and when using layers for
instance, that one can end up with a lot of duplicate elements. Click
each element in the Page column and it will highlight on the page. If
you see empty appearing objects it could be that you have duplicates
layered below items and these just might disturb the visible top
elements, if you see what I mean. As I say, just a thought, and maybe
not relevant to your problem but it doesn’t do any harm to clear out
redundant objects.

Pete

On 30 Nov 2007, at 17:40, CarolynMB wrote:

Hi Dave, I printed out your previous instructions and went through
the files one by one in Edit Recources so that all the images on
Gallery page were in the same file: Sweater Images.

When I Preview or Preview in Browser every change I’ve made is
there with nothing extraneous sneaking in. It looks great, just the
way I want it.

I published it and uploaded it to my server… guess what…no
changes whatsoever even when I refresh the pages, images are
missing, and some distsoreted and in the wrong place altoghether.

I added an HTML credit underneath my photo on my home page… not
there. My Gallery page is still the same - mucked up, and there is
still Yarn-Neeldes-Email in blue which was a Gif I was
experimenting with but ditched, deleting it from all the files
where I found it both on my hard drive and on my server using
Transmit.

I still think there is something wrong with uploading from Freeway
for me as I’ve had more progress with Transmit. I would love to
just be able to do the one step with Freeway.

Also, have I looked at my stite online too soon, should I wait?

thanks, Carolyn


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Carolyn it appears from what you are saying

…Freeway didn’t put everything where it needed to

That your settings in File>Document Setup>Upload are incorrect

Have you checked the directory that Freeway is sending the files to - is this the same directory that you are moving the files to with transmit? I think you are on a windows server is the www folder called public_html or similar. Where did your hosting provider say that the html files should go?

I still think you should let one of us look at your Freeway doc there maybe something obviously wrong to one of us.

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This is what I was saying earlier, Freeway has a mind of it’s own and
just adds an a, b, a1 etc. to image files, it drives me mad when I go
back to a site at a later date to alter a page and FW alters the image
names on most if not all the other pages. I have been saying this for
a couple of years now but it seems to go nowhere.

Good luck.

On Dec 1, 2007, at 5:55 AM, CarolynBarnett wrote:

everything was duplicated and an ‘a’ added. I guess I have to sit
down and delete all of these!!!


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Sometime around 29/11/07 (at 23:10 -0500) CarolynBarnett said:

Here are three emails that were rejected (said I couldn’t do it), I
think they went in with my gmail addy!

I feel I’m stuck in a mess, I’ve no apostrophes in any of my
Resource files or the Media file which holds all my images in
Sweater Images.

My site has run for ages with apostrophes in the past. Anyway I now
seem to have my Resource Folder not register in Freeway.

Sorry Carolyn, what exactly do you mean by the Resource folder ‘not
registering in Freeway’? The Resources folder that is inside whatever
folder your final HTML pages are published to should (virtually)
never be touched by you. And there’s no mention of it in Freeway.
That’s a folder that Freeway uses, not a folder that we should meddle
with.

What you should do is this:

a) Make sure you’re not trying to use any files from the site
folder’s Resources folder(s) in Freeway. Never, ever add something to
your pages if it is anywhere within the folder that Freeway uses to
output the site files.

b) Make sure the names of your original images don’t contain apostrophes.
(I’m beginning to think that this whole apostrophe thing is a bit of
a red herring; many servers are fine with 'em and your problems could
come from a difference source. But it isn’t bad advice anyway.)
Rename those in the Finder, then use the Edit > Edit Resources
controls to make sure Freeway hasn’t lost the link to any of the
images.
If all your images appear to be missing, consider deleting them from
your Freeway document and reimporting them from scratch from your
original but renamed files
, not the Freeway-output ‘Resources
folder’ files.

c) Use Freeway’s option to preview your site in a browser. Does it
work? It should.

d) Use an FTP client to empty out the contents of your remote web
site folder. Make sure you don’t delete anything that’s supposed to
be there, such as folders called “cgi”, “logs”, and so on.

e) Upload your site FROM FREEWAY. Sorry about the all-caps, but if
you’re troubleshooting things it is very important to do things by
the book. Don’t do anything a non-standard way for any reason until
you’ve established that the officially recommended process is
specifically not working.

I’ve used, taught and written about Freeway for a very, very long
time, and I really can’t remember a single occasion when something
like what you describe has happened - other than when someone’s
accidentally changed the site structure or file names in some way
themselves, or has imported files from Freeway’s output location.
Freeway just doesn’t get this stuff wrong, it takes outside
interference.

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Sometime around 1/12/07 (at 10:38 +0100) Mike B said:

This is what I was saying earlier, Freeway has a mind of it’s own and
just adds an a, b, a1 etc. to image files

First of all, yes, this is sometimes annoying. BUT this should only
actually affect people doing manual code-level tricks with file
referencing. Freeway manages all its references to such files,
keeping things pointing to the right items.

This is not an indication of the root of the problem here, it is just
Freeway doing its best to make sure different items don’t end up with
identical names. It does err on the side of caution, so you can end
up with this sort of nameing change. But all the code that Freeway
manages will reference the correct items, always.

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Sometime around 30/11/07 (at 23:55 -0500) CarolynBarnett said:

Freeway didn’t put everything where it needed to be and
my site disappeared so I corrected that manually with Transmit and my
site is back but just the same.

Are you sure you’re using to correct upload details in Freeway?
Does Freeway upload some of the site, or nothing at all?
I think this may be the whole problem…

When I was dragging files into place in Transmit I watched and
noticed I twice the number of Resources as somewhere along the line
everything was duplicated and an ‘a’ added. I guess I have to sit
down and delete all of these!!!

No no nononoooo! Do not do that. You should only delete things that
you know for certain aren’t referenced in the HTML page code. Or
delete everything and upload from scratch.

I’ve deleted stuff I don’t want and added one or two more
things, result: the old stuff (supposedly deleted) is still there,
the new stuff does not appear.

When you choose File > Upload in Freeway, do you see the FTP upload
details? Are they correct?

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Yeah, it sounds like your upload directory is incorrect. Whatever
files you are dragging to somewhere else, that somewhere else should
be the directory you use in the upload dialog. Someone mentioned
previously that it’s often public_html, www or htdocs and just to
reiterate what Keith said, you don’t need to move or certainly not
delete anything once you’ve uploaded with Freeway, if it works fine
in preview then it will work fine on the web… providing it’s in the
right place.

Joe

On 1 Dec 2007, at 10:10, Keith Martin wrote:

Sometime around 30/11/07 (at 23:55 -0500) CarolynBarnett said:

Freeway didn’t put everything where it needed to be and
my site disappeared so I corrected that manually with Transmit and my
site is back but just the same.

Are you sure you’re using to correct upload details in Freeway?
Does Freeway upload some of the site, or nothing at all?
I think this may be the whole problem…

When I was dragging files into place in Transmit I watched and
noticed I twice the number of Resources as somewhere along the line
everything was duplicated and an ‘a’ added. I guess I have to sit
down and delete all of these!!!

No no nononoooo! Do not do that. You should only delete things that
you know for certain aren’t referenced in the HTML page code. Or
delete everything and upload from scratch.

I’ve deleted stuff I don’t want and added one or two more
things, result: the old stuff (supposedly deleted) is still there,
the new stuff does not appear.

When you choose File > Upload in Freeway, do you see the FTP upload
details? Are they correct?

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Carolyn

Just to clarify my earlier post I will second what Keith says here.
There are folders that you will see when viewing your server contents
with Transmit that do need to be left alone. To start from scratch
you will need to clear out just the contents of the www or
public_html folder but leave those actual folders up.

Also check that Freeway is uploading the files into the correct
folder on the server. Your hosting company should have given you
details of the correct path. Mind you, if you’ve had it working ok
before this shouldn’t be the cause but it only takes one blank field
or misspelling to screw it all up.

Pete

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d) Use an FTP client to empty out the contents of your remote web
site folder. Make sure you don’t delete anything that’s supposed to
be there, such as folders called “cgi”, “logs”, and so on.


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On Dec 1, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Keith Martin wrote:

Sometime around 1/12/07 (at 10:38 +0100) Mike B said:

This is what I was saying earlier, Freeway has a mind of it’s own and
just adds an a, b, a1 etc. to image files

First of all, yes, this is sometimes annoying. BUT this should only
actually affect people doing manual code-level tricks with file
referencing. Freeway manages all its references to such files,
keeping things pointing to the right items.

But if the lady is using Transmit to upload her FW files she is I am
sure thinking the referencing is intact, then maybe uploading the
pages and not the images so the referencing is in fact broken,
therefore images will be missing as she is explaining there are.

Unless I am mistaked she cannot upload the files with FW and that is
why she is using Transmit.

If there is nothing in the FW folders that has been placed there
manually, the only site on you domain is the one you have created in
FW and you using an FTP client then the simplest solution is to drop
all the files and folders that FW produces into the root directory of
the server.

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Sometime around 1/12/07 (at 11:26 +0100) Mike B said:

But if the lady is using Transmit to upload her FW files she is I am
sure thinking the referencing is intact, then maybe uploading the
pages and not the images so the referencing is in fact broken,
therefore images will be missing as she is explaining there are.

Absolutely. But also, working around the problem like this is a
little like attempting to get your car serviced by bringing
individual parts of its engine to the garage. (Sorry, I need more
coffee in order to come up with a better off-the-wall example. :slight_smile:

Unless I am mistaked she cannot upload the files with FW and that is
why she is using Transmit.

If that is the case then the only thing we should be concentrating
on is what the upload problem might be, not how to work around it.

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On Dec 1, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Keith Martin wrote:

Sometime around 1/12/07 (at 11:26 +0100) Mike B said:

But if the lady is using Transmit to upload her FW files she is I am
sure thinking the referencing is intact, then maybe uploading the
pages and not the images so the referencing is in fact broken,
therefore images will be missing as she is explaining there are.

Absolutely. But also, working around the problem like this is a
little like attempting to get your car serviced by bringing
individual parts of its engine to the garage. (Sorry, I need more
coffee in order to come up with a better off-the-wall example. :slight_smile:

Think it’s too late, by the lloks of thinks the engine is all over the
garage floor. lol


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On 1 Dec 2007, at 04:55, CarolynBarnett wrote:

Seems to be stuck in this ‘mess’ and no matter what I’ve done, who’s
advice I’ve followed I seem to be unable to correct/change it
further! I

A completely non-technical suggestion.

  1. Use transmit to clear you existing files from the server.

2, Check you Freeway document is working OK in Preview mode and/or
Preview in Browser

  1. In ‘File’ - ‘Document Info…’ change your ‘Site Folder’ to a new
    one and check your ‘Upload’ details.

  2. Save Freeway document under a new name.

  3. Upload from Freeway.

It may just clear things - or it may not, but you will still have you
previous Freeway document to re-use.

Here’s hoping.

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Hi Keith, I’ll answer all your questions in each email as I go and hope you can help. I may be repeating myself but here goes…

Sorry Carolyn, what exactly do you mean by the Resource folder ‘not
registering in Freeway’?

I’ve been looking and working with the ‘their stuff’ on Transmit for a while now with updates to my site. When I did this last clean upload the ‘public’ folder was left empty and the Resource folder was not where it usually is (CMBDesignsSite folder) just in the Site folder.

The Resources folder that is inside whatever
folder your final HTML pages are published to should (virtually)
never be touched by you. And there’s no mention of it in Freeway.
That’s a folder that Freeway uses, not a folder that we should meddle
with.

I only alter my images in my ‘Sweater Images’ folder.

What you should do is this:

a) Make sure you’re not trying to use any files from the site
folder’s Resources folder(s) in Freeway. Never, ever add something to
your pages if it is anywhere within the folder that Freeway uses to
output the site files.

b) Make sure the names of your original images don’t contain apostrophes.
(I’m beginning to think that this whole apostrophe thing is a bit of
a red herring; many servers are fine with 'em and your problems could
come from a difference source. But it isn’t bad advice anyway.)
Rename those in the Finder, then use the Edit > Edit Resources
controls to make sure Freeway hasn’t lost the link to any of the
images.
If all your images appear to be missing, consider deleting them from
your Freeway document and reimporting them from scratch from your
original but renamed files
, not the Freeway-output ‘Resources
folder’ files.

I did Edit Resources and the only images missing were the back views which should appear in the pop up windows. (Pic to New Window). All the images are in my image folder.

c) Use Freeway’s option to preview your site in a browser. Does it
work? It should.

Works perfectly in FW Preview!

d) Use an FTP client to empty out the contents of your remote web
site folder. Make sure you don’t delete anything that’s supposed to
be there, such as folders called “cgi”, “logs”, and so on.

OK I did delete cgi and logs. They are not there now but my site is still the same (incomplete mess) as it was with those two.

e) Upload your site FROM FREEWAY. Sorry about the all-caps, but if
you’re troubleshooting things it is very important to do things by
the book. Don’t do anything a non-standard way for any reason until
you’ve established that the officially recommended process is
specifically not working.

This is exactly what I did yesterday and my site disappeared. When I checked afterwards with Transmit to see what was on the server it did not look the way it usually lookes and the Public folder was empty. When I manually moved files into the Public folder my site returned.

I’ve used, taught and written about Freeway for a very, very long
time, and I really can’t remember a single occasion when something
like what you describe has happened - other than when someone’s
accidentally changed the site structure or file names in some way
themselves, or has imported files from Freeway’s output location.
Freeway just doesn’t get this stuff wrong, it takes outside
interference.

I’m sure I’ve been the cause of outside interference now, trying to follow all the help, hints in the replies, Keith, but when I started I hadn’t done anything that I have not done before (except Pic to New Window which is new to me and I followed the tutorial). I thought it would be a breeze and/or easy to correct.

Thanks, Carolyn

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Hi again, Keith… more answers to your questions…

On Dec 1, 2007, at 5:10 AM, Keith Martin wrote:

Sometime around 30/11/07 (at 23:55 -0500) CarolynBarnett said:

Freeway didn’t put everything where it needed to be and
my site disappeared so I corrected that manually with Transmit and my
site is back but just the same.

Are you sure you’re using to correct upload details in Freeway?
Does Freeway upload some of the site, or nothing at all?
I think this may be the whole problem…
Yes and yes, it only uploads ‘some’ of the site, and it’s done this
through this whole new update I’ve been trying to do. I just
downloaded the Freeway Update… could this have anything to do with it?

When I was dragging files into place in Transmit I watched and
noticed I twice the number of Resources as somewhere along the line
everything was duplicated and an ‘a’ added. I guess I have to sit
down and delete all of these!!!

No no nononoooo! Do not do that. You should only delete things that
you know for certain aren’t referenced in the HTML page code. Or
delete everything and upload from scratch.
All of a sudden I had over 400 files to upload, twice what is really
there. The extra’s were all duplicates with ‘a’ added, all in my
‘Sweater Images’ file. I have not had that happen before.

I’ve deleted stuff I don’t want and added one or two more
things, result: the old stuff (supposedly deleted) is still there,
the new stuff does not appear.

When you choose File > Upload in Freeway, do you see the FTP upload
details? Are they correct?
Yes, Passive mode is also checked.

Carolyn

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