Are our unlinked files really unlinked??

[Greg Gates]

In 1998 when we began building our e-commerce site www.ringdesigner.com, we
began a process of taking high quality digital images of the rings we were
shipping out. We like actual images wherever possible instead of computer
graphics (we have our share as well).

With our growth, our attention has been properly focused on our customers.

BUT, with the site maturation process, we have a ton of graphics/images in
the FrontPage Folders that are not currently used on the site.

We looked at the "unlinked files" report and found, yes, there is a ton of
jpg and gif image files listed as unlinked.



Here is our question:

On the Reports page for "unlinked files", if an image file in a folder
shows "0" (zero) in the "Links to" column and also shows a "0" (zero) in the
"Links from" column, can we be 100% certain this file is not an image that
currently displays somewhere on our site (or at least not from that image in
that particular folder)??


If not, is there a way to test if the image file is linked?

Thank you

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

No
- any files used by FP design time tools or client/server side scripts will also show as unlinked
Create a folder named Unused
- drag the suspected unused files there
Test your pages (in browser) and if there are no errors they are probably safe to delete
- you can also search for each File name in all pages / html code to verify it is not used

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"Greg Gates" <greg AT ringdesigner.com> wrote in message | In 1998 when we began building our e-commerce site www.ringdesigner.com, we
| began a process of taking high quality digital images of the rings we were
| shipping out. We like actual images wherever possible instead of computer
| graphics (we have our share as well).
|
| With our growth, our attention has been properly focused on our customers.
|
| BUT, with the site maturation process, we have a ton of graphics/images in
| the FrontPage Folders that are not currently used on the site.
|
| We looked at the "unlinked files" report and found, yes, there is a ton of
| jpg and gif image files listed as unlinked.
|
|
|
| Here is our question:
|
| On the Reports page for "unlinked files", if an image file in a folder
| shows "0" (zero) in the "Links to" column and also shows a "0" (zero) in the
| "Links from" column, can we be 100% certain this file is not an image that
| currently displays somewhere on our site (or at least not from that image in
| that particular folder)??
|
|
| If not, is there a way to test if the image file is linked?
|
| Thank you
|
| --
| Greg Gates
| Co founder
| www.ringdesigner.com

 

[Greg Gates]

Stefan,

Thank you for responding

Two more questions

[1] Is there anyway to get the "file size" to show as a column on the
unlinked report for each file entry? We would like to look at the largest
files first for possible elimination. We can right click and see file size
from Properties, but that is a one by none project of a ton of images.

Currently the columns showing are:
Name
Title
In Folder
Links to
Links from
Modified by
Type
Modified Date


[2] Is our logic correct using your feedback?

----Find a file on the unlinked report (example
"platinum-diamond-engagement-ring.gif")
----Recognize that it is a file NOT used by other functions like our
shopping cart or client/server side scripts
----paste the file "platinum-diamond-engagement-ring.gif" into the
Edit--Find search of FrontPage.
----Use the Advanced search feature "Find in source code"
----IF after searching the source code of all 1665 entries, if it does not
find it, and we know it is not used by our shopping cart or client/server
side scripts
----THEN is it safe to say it most likely IS NOT being used on our
site???????????

Thank you so very much.

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

No

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"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
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"Greg Gates" <greg AT ringdesigner.com> wrote in message | Stefan,
|
| Thank you for responding
|
| Two more questions
|
| [1] Is there anyway to get the "file size" to show as a column on the
| unlinked report for each file entry? We would like to look at the largest
| files first for possible elimination. We can right click and see file size
| from Properties, but that is a one by none project of a ton of images.
|
| Currently the columns showing are:
| Name
| Title
| In Folder
| Links to
| Links from
| Modified by
| Type
| Modified Date
|
|
| [2] Is our logic correct using your feedback?
|
| ----Find a file on the unlinked report (example
| "platinum-diamond-engagement-ring.gif")
| ----Recognize that it is a file NOT used by other functions like our
| shopping cart or client/server side scripts
| ----paste the file "platinum-diamond-engagement-ring.gif" into the
| Edit--Find search of FrontPage.
| ----Use the Advanced search feature "Find in source code"
| ----IF after searching the source code of all 1665 entries, if it does not
| find it, and we know it is not used by our shopping cart or client/server
| side scripts
| ----THEN is it safe to say it most likely IS NOT being used on our
| site???????????
|
| Thank you so very much.
|
|

 

[Greg Gates]

Stefan,

In this difficult time we are having here figuring out what to do, we truly
appreciate the time, the effort and thought that went in to formulating your
last response to our "TWO" seperate questions.



: No

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

1) No
2) Yes

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_____________________________________________
SBR @ ENJOY (-: [ Microsoft MVP - FrontPage ]
"Warning - Using the F1 Key will not break anything!" (-;
To find the best Newsgroup for FrontPage support see:
http://www.frontpagemvps.com/FrontPageNewsGroups/tabid/53/Default.aspx
_____________________________________________


"Greg Gates" <greg AT ringdesigner.com> wrote in message | Stefan,
|
| In this difficult time we are having here figuring out what to do, we truly
| appreciate the time, the effort and thought that went in to formulating your
| last response to our "TWO" seperate questions.
|
|
|
| "Stefan B Rusynko" wrote: No
|
|
|

 

[Greg Gates]

1) Thank You
2) Thank You