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From: Donald Bova <>
Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] RE: Help With Frontpage & Rootsweb Site Please!!!
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:34:51 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <003501c52dbb$9a4cb5e0$6401a8c0@Cheri>


Speaking of backups ... for those with cd burners or
iomega zip drives, you can drag & drop from your
freepages site to your computer and then back up to cd
and/or zip drive.

Don
--- Cheri Zuber <> wrote:

> Have you tried using Pat's Drag-n-Drop FTP
> directions at
>
http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/dragndrop.htm
> ?
>
> It is actually written about dragging files from
> your computer INTO
> Freepages, but the reverse works just as well. My
> computer crashed and the
> backup of my pages that I had was not as up-to-date
> as I wanted. So I used
> this method to pull the web back onto my computer
> and then use FrontPage to
> update. Took a little while to move so many since I
> have a lot of pages,
> but this way you can highlight and copy a lot of
> pages at a time and it
> worked like a charm.
>
> First create a new web on your computer in FrontPage
> and then close
> FrontPage. Then, using Windows Explorer and the FTP
> directions, you can
> open Freepages and drag the files back into the new
> web on your computer.
> When completed, just open the "new" web in
> FrontPage.
>
> Cheri Zuber
> http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~zuber/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Taylor
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 4:56 PM
> To: ;
>
> Subject: Re: Help With Frontpage & Rootsweb Site
> Please!!!
>
> Dear Allison,
> I hope you get an answer because I have a similar
> problem with trying to
> download an existing site into FrontPage &
> re-establishing the nav links.
> FrontPage is "confused" about how the files relate
> to each other. It doesn't
> even recognize the site as valid. (The links within
> the pages should work,
> but FrontPage hasn't recorded them.)
>
> I doubt that lack of support for FrontPage
> extensions is the issue here. All
> this means is that page features which need these
> special extensions won't
> work on Rootsweb. For example: active buttons & hit
> counters.
>
> The only answer I can think of is to hand-draw an
> org chart of the site and
> follow that to move the files around. You might wind
> up creating a lot of
> "New Page 1", "New Page 2, etc., then copying &
> pasting, or renaming.
> Admittedly, it's a pain.
>
> I think you have to open FrontPage first (else,
> Windows opens the HTML files
> with IE). Then, "create" a "new" site in FrontPage &
> tell it what folder
> it's in.
>
> -ralph
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cale2cales
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:50 PM
> Subject: Help With Frontpage & Rootsweb Site
> Please!!!
>
>
> > I am having problems importing my rootsweb site
> from the internet into
> > Frontpage 2002 (or 98 version) on my new system.
> Can someone please please
> please
> > help me! I can migrate all of the files from the
> Rootsweb site to
> Frontpage
> > versions - with the exception of the navigation.
> So all I have is a bunch
> of files
> > and nothing to link them together :(
> >
> > I have tried everything I can think of, and spent
> $ with Microsoft's tech
> > support, who so far can't figure out the problem
> either. Internet Explorer
> will
> > not allow me to open my Rootsweb site in
> Frontpage, for some unknown
> reason.
> > Importing the backed up files from Retrospect (on
> an external hard drive)
> > doesn't give me back the navigation links either.
> >
> > My old system contracted a very nasty hijack virus
> that kept replicating
> > itself all over the place. After too many hours to
> count, and a heck of
> lot of
> > frustration, it was impossible to completely clean
> the old system of the
> virus.
> > So I got a new system :) I do not want to directly
> migrate my web from the
> > hard drive of the old sytem to the new system in
> Frontpage because of the
> virus
> > implications (the virus is connected to Internet
> Explorer.)
> >
> > I have both versions of Frontpage 2002 and 98) on
> my new system. I had
> seen
> > an older message on Rootsweb site that rootsweb
> does not support Frontpage
> 98
> > extensions. Could this be what my problem is? Or
> does Rootsweb now support
> > Frontpage extensions? I've been using Frontpage 98
> for years and years for
> my
> > website and never ran into any problems - until
> now.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Alison Wallner
> >
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