FYI - Loss of links, at times.

[Don Schmidt]

FYI folks:

I have a Publisher 2000 website that at times, after editing, some of the
links no longer are active; pointer fails to change to a pointing finger.

A cure that works, for me: Redo the "Save as a webpage"

Suspected reason for the link failure: A guess; I have a 2.4 gig, dual core
Intel CPU - could it be it is to fast for Publisher 2000?

Can't, post the page for it is password protected.

 

[DavidF]

Hi Don,

I seem to remember this being an issue way back when, but I don't remember
why. As you know, I use Pub 2000 primarily, and haven't experienced this
recently. I seem to remember that when I was using my Win98se machine, links
would occasionally go corrupt, and I would remove the hyperlink, and then
reinsert it as a fix. Don't know it that would make any difference or not,
but you might try it the next time it happens. As to the speed of your
computer, I doubt that has anything to do with it.

DavidF

 

[Don Schmidt]

One way of losing the links to files is if page two is displayed and I save
as a website then the links on page one wouldn't work; the mouse pointer
wouldn't change from arrow to pointing finger. More rarely the loss of
links would happen even when displaying page one and doing the save as a
website.

Some of the links are on the same server, written as
/folder/folder/file.pdf and others on various other servers, i.e., some
restaurant, business, etc. These have the entire http:// string. The loss
of links would be by page and not individual. Except! One pages with
grouped and locked text boxes, also with image, would loose the link in one
of the text boxes but not in the other. ??? Do a Save as website and they
all work again.

Some time ago when the multi-gig cpus first came out I read a patch had to
be installed due to the speed of the processor; had to slow them down a bit.
Maybe it was the faster cpus with slow ram..... memory on this is a bit
faded.

I've learned to visit the site after a new upload and verify "pointer"
changes still work; checking one or two per page does the chore. If I
forget and suffer a link loss, I'll get a complaining email.<G> But this
does verify the site has visitors! <G>

These problems are minor compared working on a Coldfusion site. Painful.
To edit we use an editor names osEditor Pro. If you update a dozen items
doing a Save may fail and it will require redoing the dozen items. Better
to do one at a time, saving after each item.

--
Don
Vancouver, USA

Hi Don,

I seem to remember this being an issue way back when, but I don't remember
why. As you know, I use Pub 2000 primarily, and haven't experienced this
recently. I seem to remember that when I was using my Win98se machine,
links would occasionally go corrupt, and I would remove the hyperlink, and
then reinsert it as a fix. Don't know it that would make any difference or
not, but you might try it the next time it happens. As to the speed of
your computer, I doubt that has anything to do with it.

DavidF

 

[DavidF]

Hi Don,

There doesn't seem to be any consistent pattern for your issue, which makes
it hard to troubleshoot. Some stabs in the dark...

Have you run the design checker? I guess I am wondering if there is any
common design element that might be causing this. When you do loose the link
functionality, is the text converted to an image by any chance? As we
discussed once before, I notice that tables are converted to an image in Pub
2000, and in spite of that links within the table sometimes survive while in
other cases if the text is converted to an image and the link is killed. The
next time it happens, try to select some of the text on the web page around
the link and see if it has been converted.

I have my Web Properties set for the Target audience of IE 3 or Netscape 3
or later vs. the second "high fidelity" setting for IE4, etc. I also publish
using Unicode (UTF-8). What are your settings, and does it make any
difference?

I seem to remember that when I had these issues, I was running Win98SE. Have
you tried creating a new blank web page, and copy and pasting your design
elements over to an XP generated page? I know that opening, saving or saving
as, should be the same thing, but just wonder if rebuilding a page
completely in XP might make any difference.

Like I said, stabs in the dark, but if I think of anything else I will ping
you.

DavidF

One way of losing the links to files is if page two is displayed and I
save as a website then the links on page one wouldn't work; the mouse
pointer wouldn't change from arrow to pointing finger. More rarely the
loss of links would happen even when displaying page one and doing the
save as a website.

Some of the links are on the same server, written as
/folder/folder/file.pdf and others on various other servers, i.e., some
restaurant, business, etc. These have the entire http:// string. The
loss of links would be by page and not individual. Except! One pages with
grouped and locked text boxes, also with image, would loose the link in
one of the text boxes but not in the other. ??? Do a Save as website and
they all work again.

Some time ago when the multi-gig cpus first came out I read a patch had to
be installed due to the speed of the processor; had to slow them down a
bit. Maybe it was the faster cpus with slow ram..... memory on this is a
bit faded.

I've learned to visit the site after a new upload and verify "pointer"
changes still work; checking one or two per page does the chore. If I
forget and suffer a link loss, I'll get a complaining email.<G> But this
does verify the site has visitors! <G>

These problems are minor compared working on a Coldfusion site. Painful.
To edit we use an editor names osEditor Pro. If you update a dozen items
doing a Save may fail and it will require redoing the dozen items. Better
to do one at a time, saving after each item.