Lost .pub file how do I import my index_files back into Pub 2003??

[babyboos]

Hi
wonder if anyone can help
I lost my hard drive big style gone
at data recovery place may get my .pub file back may not
so here i am with a part finished website and I don't want to start all over.
I have the index.htm and index_files on my web server
I know next time I will save my .pub file up there too but never imagined my
laptop would be destroyed so inconveniently!!!
I have frontpage 2000 if that would help at all?
My original web site was done in this but I much prefer Publisher...
I am not a great web expert or anything so hope you can help with a not too
technically complicated solution.

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

Anything worth keeping is worth backing up. Often. I myself burn stuff to
CD's regularly.

You can open Pub2003 and then browse to the .htm files and see if it'll open
them somewhat gracefully and then try and save it as a pub file and see what
you'd get. Another thing you can try if it'll open the .htm is to save it as
a .mht and then turn around and open the .mht and then save as that as a
..pub. Of course you are somewhat limited because the site entity is
self-contained in a pub file whereas now you are dealing with page entities
only. But if you can get them all in pub files you could then copy paste
those into a single pub file.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

 

[babyboos]

what's a .mht?

Anything worth keeping is worth backing up. Often. I myself burn stuff to
CD's regularly.

You can open Pub2003 and then browse to the .htm files and see if it'll open
them somewhat gracefully and then try and save it as a pub file and see what
you'd get. Another thing you can try if it'll open the .htm is to save it as
a .mht and then turn around and open the .mht and then save as that as a
..pub. Of course you are somewhat limited because the site entity is
self-contained in a pub file whereas now you are dealing with page entities
only. But if you can get them all in pub files you could then copy paste
those into a single pub file.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

Hi
wonder if anyone can help
I lost my hard drive big style gone
at data recovery place may get my .pub file back may not
so here i am with a part finished website and I don't want to start all
over.
I have the index.htm and index_files on my web server
I know next time I will save my .pub file up there too but never imagined
my
laptop would be destroyed so inconveniently!!!
I have frontpage 2000 if that would help at all?
My original web site was done in this but I much prefer Publisher...
I am not a great web expert or anything so hope you can help with a not
too
technically complicated solution.

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

what's a .mht?

..mht file, also known as a "web archive file". The .mht file
format is exclusive to IE. You can open IE, browse to a page and go to a web
page, go to File, save as, select mht and it'll save that page as a single
entity locally for you. I myself use this to save off order confirmation
pages or documentation pages that I want to save and file, versus printing.
The .mht file contains all the page elements and so can be viewed off line
at any time. If you wanted to share a pub file with some one that did not
have Publisher to view the pub file then saving it as a mht and telling them
to view that in IE would be a good use for it. You should NOTgenerate mht
files and post those for a web site.

 

[babyboos]

would you recommend taking the webpages into frontpage instead
i have office 2003 professional so it comes with that my other half has told
me

 

[David Bartosik [MSFT MVP]]

Nope. If you go to FrontPage I recommend you design from scratch in FP.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

 

[Lynn]

I am still struggling and my web page has not been updated since I lost my
files on the old computer. I have tried several of the tips but they didn't
work for me.

I have FrontPage but when I open it all I get is personal webpages, there
doesn't seem to be a way to open anything at all.

I do not have MSPub 2003, I have 2000 and it doesn't seem to work in the
same way as you indicated.
--
Amature Web Designer
www.frescaaire.com
www.myrottweilerpups.com
www.jugendlieberotts.com

Nope. If you go to FrontPage I recommend you design from scratch in FP.

David Bartosik - [MSFT MVP]
www.publishermvps.com
www.davidbartosik.com

would you recommend taking the webpages into frontpage instead
i have office 2003 professional so it comes with that my other half has
told
me