filelist.xml -- is it dangerous??

[Steve]

I am starting to find corrupt files on website, a website
that has 4075 pages...Now it has been a while since I
looked around the site, so I don't know if this is a
recent development or if it has been happening over time,
but what I do know is this:

I did a search on my pc for the file:

filelist.xml

and found about 40 of these buggers dispersed in different
folders on my hard-drive...

Should I delete all of these xml files?...

Are these potentially harmful?...

Don't know how these files are showing up on my 2-month
old pc in all of these folders...I have windows XP and
Front Page 2002, while previous to 2 months ago, I had
windows 98 and Front Page 2000, so I don't know if this is
causing a potential problem with all of my web pages...

I am also finding these 2 lines of code in about 1000
pages on my site right under the xml code:

<link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="./5-
17_Brewers_at_Milf_files/editdata.mso">
<link rel=OLE-Object-Data href="./5-
17_Brewers_at_Milf_files/oledata.mso">


And I have found 2 or 3 files on my hard-drive called:

editdata.mso & oledata.mso

Are these files harmful?...

Should I delete them?...

I am just worried, because I am finding more and more
corrupted files on my website every day and wonder if
these files:

filelist.xml
editdata.mso
oledata.mso

have anything to do with it...

Thank you...

Steve

 

[wp]

4075 pages? And I thought 700 was plenny. Can you post the URL?

 

[Steve Easton]

No. They are there for a reason and unrelated to your website.

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
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[Dwayne Conyers]

I am starting to find corrupt files on website, a website

If you past certain items into FrontPage... such as an office graphic... FP
creates the XML to "manage" those graphic items. If you kill the graphic or
page, the XML sticks around. Something to keep your eye on. I think if the
graphic is still there and you kill the XML, FP will just recreate it...

 

[Andrew Murray]

I believe they have something to do with Windows and/or Frontpage functionality -
I just did the same search and it returned 16 files named "filelist.xml".

I think it has to do with the way windows displays files, e.g. the customised
view of files and folders in "My Pictures" or "My Computer", "My Documents" etc -
it is html/xml based so this is the file that has the code that displays the
files as icons, thumbnails, list details, small icons etc, so no I don't think
it's dangerous.

XML is a mark up language derived from HTML.

 

[Guest]

www.tricountyleague.com

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4075 pages? And I thought 700 was plenny. Can you post the URL?


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