hit counters to say publish or not publish?

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I have FrontPage 2003. I notice that right now one of my invisible hit
counters is showing itself marked as "don't publish" (in my live webs and in
my documents). They are all working ok, so no problem there, but I am
wondering if the publish status on this one should be changed to "publish"?
When I have inserted a hit counter on a page I have never marked the file as
either one but I think it starts out as publish and then later I notice that
some show they are "don't publish." What causes this? I am a little confused.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you publish it, you will overwrite the counter file at the publishing destination.

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[red]

I am not sure I understand. I think you are saying that if I change it to
"publish," it will overwrite the hit counter on the live web, so I will leave
it as it is.

I also wanted to know what causes some of them to turn into "publish" and
others to say "don't publish"? (There were actually 3 of them last night that
said "do not publish" yesterday and today there is just the one.) Please let
me know if all of them should always say "publish"?? Thank you.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

The counter files should never be published after the very first publishing of a site.

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