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P.S.
Hello there,
I sure hope this is the right place to seek some elightment (and that
includes FP enlightment, lol)!
Until a few days ago, I had absolutely no problems with my FrontPage (2002)
and I've been using it for over a year now. Now, it times out, won't read
the files or if it occasionally does read them, it won't save them - or - it
will save them, but it says it won't...
This problem occurred a week ago for the first time, just hours before a
critical upload to my site. Eventually I started editing the pages manually
via notepad - and then, as if by miracle FrontPage started working again.
And worked for another couple of days. And now it's off again, and I have
another critical update coming up in 2 days...!
At first I blamed my machine and possible corruption, but as we have 6
machines in the office here, I tried it on each of the other machines - and
to my surprise, it was exactly the same on each one. Then I looked at our
router (which is still not totally off the suspect list) - but it seems to
work fine for everything else... But sometimes when I reset it, FP would
work again. But that could have been a coincidence. Also - I don't use
FrontPage to upload the site anyway. I use FTP. It should be totally
offline, as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway - here's what happens:
1. I start FrontPage and this message comes up after a LONG wait (while it's
trying to read my drive where my web is stored): The server "" timed out.
The current request did not complete successfully.
2. I OK that message and try to open a random page, and get this message:
This page is no longer in the web. Select the page in Navigation View, and
use the Delete on the Edit menu to remove this page from all link bars.
Needless to say, the page IS present an it's only FrongPage mis-reporting.
And to make matters more confusing - sometimes I CAN open some of the
smaller pages. And (most) other times the same page won't open at all.
3. But I did try adding or deleting pages. FP takes forever to process the
request and then comes back with:"Saving Navigation changes" in the bottom
left corner - but after a while it pops up this message: An error occurred
accessing your FrontPage web files. Authors - if authoring against a web
server, please contact the webmaster for this server's site. WebMasters -
please see the server's system log for more details. I also once got this
system message from my Windows XP: Windows - Delayed Write Failed.
Now, it needs to be said that I only use Front Page in the most primitive of
ways. No special effects, no need for FP Extensions - it's just a fancy,
wysiwyg HTML editor for me. And I upload everything manually via FTP and
have done for over a year.
Whatever is happening now is clearly FrontPage checking for something which
isn't there - and thus timing out - and completely killing me in the
process...!
Whatever it is, how can I disable it or fix it? Otherwise, I'll have to
re-code the entire 1000-page-plus site in a different program, in under 2
days...!
If you're able to help and advise me, I'd be most tremendously grateful.
Big thanks,
Cheers,
Paul
Mere Music International / Fame Games Radio
www.meermusic.com
PS - perhaps this is relevant: I have Win XP Pro, and about a week ago
(coinciding with the timing of these problems) I've downloaded IE7. Having
read a post somewhere that THIS is the reason why FrontPage is now screwing
up, I've uninstalled it and am back to IE6. Sadly, no change.
I sure hope this is the right place to seek some elightment (and that
includes FP enlightment, lol)!
Until a few days ago, I had absolutely no problems with my FrontPage (2002)
and I've been using it for over a year now. Now, it times out, won't read
the files or if it occasionally does read them, it won't save them - or - it
will save them, but it says it won't...
This problem occurred a week ago for the first time, just hours before a
critical upload to my site. Eventually I started editing the pages manually
via notepad - and then, as if by miracle FrontPage started working again.
And worked for another couple of days. And now it's off again, and I have
another critical update coming up in 2 days...!
At first I blamed my machine and possible corruption, but as we have 6
machines in the office here, I tried it on each of the other machines - and
to my surprise, it was exactly the same on each one. Then I looked at our
router (which is still not totally off the suspect list) - but it seems to
work fine for everything else... But sometimes when I reset it, FP would
work again. But that could have been a coincidence. Also - I don't use
FrontPage to upload the site anyway. I use FTP. It should be totally
offline, as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway - here's what happens:
1. I start FrontPage and this message comes up after a LONG wait (while it's
trying to read my drive where my web is stored): The server "" timed out.
The current request did not complete successfully.
2. I OK that message and try to open a random page, and get this message:
This page is no longer in the web. Select the page in Navigation View, and
use the Delete on the Edit menu to remove this page from all link bars.
Needless to say, the page IS present an it's only FrongPage mis-reporting.
And to make matters more confusing - sometimes I CAN open some of the
smaller pages. And (most) other times the same page won't open at all.
3. But I did try adding or deleting pages. FP takes forever to process the
request and then comes back with:"Saving Navigation changes" in the bottom
left corner - but after a while it pops up this message: An error occurred
accessing your FrontPage web files. Authors - if authoring against a web
server, please contact the webmaster for this server's site. WebMasters -
please see the server's system log for more details. I also once got this
system message from my Windows XP: Windows - Delayed Write Failed.
Now, it needs to be said that I only use Front Page in the most primitive of
ways. No special effects, no need for FP Extensions - it's just a fancy,
wysiwyg HTML editor for me. And I upload everything manually via FTP and
have done for over a year.
Whatever is happening now is clearly FrontPage checking for something which
isn't there - and thus timing out - and completely killing me in the
process...!
Whatever it is, how can I disable it or fix it? Otherwise, I'll have to
re-code the entire 1000-page-plus site in a different program, in under 2
days...!
If you're able to help and advise me, I'd be most tremendously grateful.
Big thanks,
Cheers,
Paul
Mere Music International / Fame Games Radio
www.meermusic.com
PS - perhaps this is relevant: I have Win XP Pro, and about a week ago
(coinciding with the timing of these problems) I've downloaded IE7. Having
read a post somewhere that THIS is the reason why FrontPage is now screwing
up, I've uninstalled it and am back to IE6. Sadly, no change.