 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
| HomeDiscussionsAccessExcelInfoPathOutlookPowerPointPublisherWordDirectoryUser Groups Related Topics Outlook ExpressInternet ExplorerWindowsMS Server ProductsMore Topics ... |
MS Office Forum / Publisher / Web Design / August 2004lost copy of website
I would really appreciate some help. I had kept a copy of my website compressed on a floppy. I now cannot retrieve it. Does that mean I have to start all over again or is there some way that I can recover it from the website itself? It has taken me months to design it as I was a complete novice and it had about 25 pages. Anxiously awaiting a response! Thanks in anticipation. Elly If you created your site with Publisher and it is gone, yes you will need to start over again. I know the feeling, it happened to me.  SignatureDon Vancouver, USA > I would really appreciate some help. I had kept a copy of > my website compressed on a floppy. I now cannot retrieve [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Elly Thank you Don. Glad to know I am not the only one! Elly >-----Original Message----- >If you created your site with Publisher and it is gone, yes you will need to [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >. Actually, Publisher 2002 is supposed to be able to import html and work on it as a "native language". My limited experience with this was not to good, however. I am not sure about Publisher 2003 in this regard. Are you sure you do not have the original publisher files? You do not need the htm or html files if the site was created in Publisher. In any event, download the actual files from the server now to protect against disaster until you figure out what you want to do. This might be a good time to abandon Publisher and import the source code into Front Page or Dreamweaver and patch it up. At 25 pages, you are already pushing the limit in Publisher, especially if you are in Publisher 2003 (bloated code problem). Good luck. >Thank you Don. Glad to know I am not the only one! > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> >>. Thanks so much for that. I am using Publisher 2000. I am not anticipating expanding the site, neither do I think (but I don't know for sure) that it uses a lot of memory. I am really an absolute novice and if I had known what wonderful support there was here, I would have saved myself days of frustration figuring things out. So, the truth is I haven't a clue whether I have HTML files, neither do I understand source code. I am very grateful for your suggestion to download my site (I may just about be able to do that!) in case of disaster. However, I do not know how to you Front page and I started to learn Dreamweaver, which given time I am sure I would have come to grips with, but it just takes so long to start from scratch. So, if I can transfer something straight in there, I could just try to fiddle with it! At the moment, I still have the original on 4 floppies, compressed, but floppy 2 or 3 does not want to unpack and therefore Publisher cannot open it. Do you know any way in which I can rescue what might be left? Thank you in anticipation. Elly >-----Original Message----- >Actually, Publisher 2002 is supposed to be able to import html and work on it as >a "native language". My limited experience with this was not to good, however. >I am not sure about Publisher 2003 in this regard. > >Are you sure you do not have the original publisher files? You do not need the >htm or html files if the site was created in Publisher. > [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > >. Elly, Have you tried copying the files over to your hard drive and opening them there? Saving to, and opening from, floppies can create lots of problems. DavidF > Thanks so much for that. I am using Publisher 2000. I am > not anticipating expanding the site, neither do I think [quoted text clipped - 81 lines] > > > >. Thanks for that DavidF. I have had a go, but cannot copy either as two of the four floppies cannot be read (get stuck half way through). It looks I will just have to do it again. Oh well ... Elly >-----Original Message----- >Elly, Have you tried copying the files over to your hard drive and opening [quoted text clipped - 87 lines] > >. Take the floppies to a local computer shoppe or computer guru; they may have some utilities that can read the damaged files. Also, are you reading the disks on the exact same drive they were created on? Sometimes that makes a difference. In the alternative, try to read them on another drive just to see what happens (it may yield diagnostic clues if nothing else). You mentioned the floppies are compressed. If the compression was done in some sort of back-up program, Publisher may not be able to directly read the files. You may have to go thru a resurrect routine to make the files readable by mere mortal programs. >Thanks for that DavidF. I have had a go, but cannot copy >either as two of the four floppies cannot be read (get [quoted text clipped - 99 lines] >> >>. Thanks very much for that. They were created with a different drive (completely burnt by a viruswill). I will take them elsewhere. >-----Original Message----- >Take the floppies to a local computer shoppe or computer guru; they may have [quoted text clipped - 113 lines] > >. Use that drive if you can, even if you have to temporarily install it in another computer. Long experience has taught to never ever trust any of the backup programs that compress files since they very well may not restore properly. What we do here is that every computer has two hard drives, and we make a clone copy of the C drive periodically on the second drive. Critical work product files (like our website Publisher files) are also copied to the hard drives in another building by way of the network. That means that there are three or four copies of all critical work product files on at least two machines in different buildings. Real security nuts will insist on removable media back-ups as well, but this system has served us well for many years. The main advantage is that even in the event of a hard drive crash, a machine can be running again in a matter of minutes on the cloned drive already sitting inside it. >Thanks very much for that. They were created with a >different drive (completely burnt by a viruswill). I will [quoted text clipped - 132 lines] >> >>. What I suggest, assuming the web server has the space available, is to upload the pub file to the web server for backup purposes. If you lose or damage your copy you can go to the server for it and download it. Also hosts are very good about doing backups of their customer accounts so the pub file will be well taken care of. SignatureDavid Bartosik - MS MVP www.publishermvps.com > Use that drive if you can, even if you have to temporarily install it in another > computer. [quoted text clipped - 147 lines] > >> > >>. Very good suggestion. I forgot to mention that. We do that also. It means you can get at your original Publisher files from anywhere in the world, should the need ever arise. >What I suggest, assuming the web server has the space available, is to >upload the pub file to the web server for backup purposes. If you lose or >damage your copy you can go to the server for it and download it. Also hosts >are very good about doing backups of their customer accounts so the pub file >will be well taken care of. Thank you so much for all that. I really feel a bit sheepish now, having clearly been too trusting (read: ignorant!) >-----Original Message----- >Very good suggestion. I forgot to mention that. We do that also. It means you [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >. A pub site is contained within the Pub file itself so it is the important file, not the html files on the server, they can always be recreated from the Pub file. Though 2002 and 2003 do open html files. I'd be willing to try some experimentation with versions 2002 and 2003 if you post the URL of the site. SignatureDavid Bartosik - MS MVP www.publishermvps.com > I would really appreciate some help. I had kept a copy of > my website compressed on a floppy. I now cannot retrieve [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Elly Thank you so much David, much appreciated. www.professionalcounselling.co.uk Elly >-----Original Message----- >A pub site is contained within the Pub file itself so it is the important [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >. Nah, no good. 2002 pretty much trashes it. 2003 does a better job but there'd still be so much fix-up work you'd just as well start over. And in both cases you lose the menu bar. Thing is the "ability" to open html files in Pub is designed for opening the html files that version created, and in it's xml mode at that. Rather than "other" html files. I down-loaded the web site. If you wanted to send me your email address I could send you the files. You can either open the web in FrontPage and then proceed as is (FrontPage edits actual html files rather then use a "middle-man" file i.e. .pub file) or you could copy paste the text into a new Publisher web file starting over. Let me know (email - pub2003@davidbartosik.com) SignatureDavid Bartosik - MS MVP www.publishermvps.com > > Thank you so much David, much appreciated. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > > >. Thanks for that David. >-----Original Message----- >Nah, no good. 2002 pretty much trashes it. 2003 does a better job but [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > >. Clean design btw, good work. SignatureDavid Bartosik - MS MVP www.publishermvps.com > > Thank you so much David, much appreciated. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > > >. Thank you for the compliment, but what does btw mean? >-----Original Message----- >Clean design btw, good work. [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > >. by the way > Thank you for the compliment, but what does btw mean? > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > > >.
|
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.