FP Cleaner and .btr files

[Gene]

In another thread Brian Mailman said:

I'd installed a 'new' component, and recalculated
(after running FP Cleaner) AND deleting all the .btr files
in _private....

What is FP Cleaner? I found nothing in FP Help.

I have not heard of deleting the *.btr files (which I found in several of my
_vti_pvt folders) as a problem-solving step. What are these files and why
does one delete them? What is the effect on the web site? Is there any
documentation somewhere, so I may learn more?

Thanks,
Gene

 

[Steve Easton]

FP Cleaner: http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm

It doesn't do anything "inside" of your web.


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[Brian Mailman]

there are three .btr files, doctodep, deptodoc, and linkinfo. I suppose
they have something to do with hyperlinks. I'm also fairly sure each
copy of your web maintains its own, and that they aren't published. But
I've found that *sometimes* deleting them in my local web and allowing
FP to rebuild them, then publishing (I usually do 'changed pages only')
helps when I see the error that starts off "hash file...." after trying
a search.

B/

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

You should never touch the files in _vti_pvt (your ".btr" files)
They are managed by FP and the FP SE and editing or deleting theme will usually clobber the FP web
- they are never published but are regenerated on the remote while publishing by the FP SE
To "update" those file just use Tools Recalculate Hyperlinks from w/i your FP web



| there are three .btr files, doctodep, deptodoc, and linkinfo. I suppose
| they have something to do with hyperlinks. I'm also fairly sure each
| copy of your web maintains its own, and that they aren't published. But
| I've found that *sometimes* deleting them in my local web and allowing
| FP to rebuild them, then publishing (I usually do 'changed pages only')
| helps when I see the error that starts off "hash file...." after trying
| a search.
|
| B/
|
| Gene wrote:
|
| > In another thread Brian Mailman said:
| >> I'd installed a 'new' component, and recalculated
| >> (after running FP Cleaner) AND deleting all the .btr files
| >> in _private....
| >
| >
| > What is FP Cleaner? I found nothing in FP Help.
| >
| > I have not heard of deleting the *.btr files (which I found in several of my
| > _vti_pvt folders) as a problem-solving step. What are these files and why
| > does one delete them? What is the effect on the web site? Is there any
| > documentation somewhere, so I may learn more?
| >
| > Thanks,
| > Gene
| >
| >

 

[Gene]

Hi Brian (we meet again!),

Whenever I get the "hash file" message after a search I fix it by opening
the remote site in FP and recalculating the hyperlinks. Used to be I had to
recalculate hyperlinks 2, 3, 4, or more times. The last year or so it
usually takes just one.

Gene

 

[Gene]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks very much for this information.

Regards,
Gene

 

[Joe91]

Interesting thread - I'm new to this game and found that when I uploaded my
FP stuff to my geocities web site for testing Yahoo would not accept the .btr
files.
Joe