deleting _vti_cnf contents? dumb idea or clever trick?

[George Orwell]

I had this problem when I publish:
it transfers files but hangs at the stage
"processing web updates for"
So I searches many webmaster forums, and one person said he
cured this by deleting contents of _vti_cnf (which one was
not specified).
Now most say never touch anything starting with _vti or else
your website goes kaput.
Next I fired up spare computer which had an old Frontpage
website on it. I went to My Webs\_vti_cnf and deleted
the html files. I started FP and it hesitated for 5 seconds
but no error message. Then I clicked on Reports and saw
what I expected. Next I recalculated hyperlinks, and this
took a while (about 600 pictures in this website).
Then I looked at _vti_cnf and the files were recreated.
I compared with backups and only the lines starting with
_vti_sync were not there (which refer to the webhost server).

So my question is: can _vti_cnf files get corrupted, and
is euthanasia and revivification better than letting them
stumble on?



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[Stefan B Rusynko]

Yes they can get corrupted
- do not delete them

Instead run a Tool Recalculate Hyperlinks to update/correct them
- both on local and remote site in FP

What often gets corrupted and out of sync are your web cache files
- those you should regularly delete those before Starting FP
An easy way to clear them is the FP cleaner
See http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm




|I had this problem when I publish:
| it transfers files but hangs at the stage
| "processing web updates for"
| So I searches many webmaster forums, and one person said he
| cured this by deleting contents of _vti_cnf (which one was
| not specified).
| Now most say never touch anything starting with _vti or else
| your website goes kaput.
| Next I fired up spare computer which had an old Frontpage
| website on it. I went to My Webs\_vti_cnf and deleted
| the html files. I started FP and it hesitated for 5 seconds
| but no error message. Then I clicked on Reports and saw
| what I expected. Next I recalculated hyperlinks, and this
| took a while (about 600 pictures in this website).
| Then I looked at _vti_cnf and the files were recreated.
| I compared with backups and only the lines starting with
| _vti_sync were not there (which refer to the webhost server).
|
| So my question is: can _vti_cnf files get corrupted, and
| is euthanasia and revivification better than letting them
| stumble on?
|
|
|
| Il mittente di questo messaggio|The sender address of this
| non corrisponde ad un utente |message is not related to a real
| reale ma all'indirizzo fittizio|person but to a fake address of an
| di un sistema anonimizzatore |anonymous system
| Per maggiori informazioni |For more info
| https://www.mixmaster.it
|