my attempts to modify/delete content seem to fail

[BBelge]

I have read in other posts that frontpage cleans up the code etc after
modifying the contents of a page. however this does not seem to be the case
in my case.

I am trying to pare down the bulk of my site to fit within my ISP's 15 meg
homepage limit and removing some pics would be easiest to do this. but the
pics dont seem to want to be removed.

For instance, i had a picture of me as buffalo bill on the site. I removed
that picture by clicking on it in the WYSIWYG window and deleting it.
however, the picture is still listed in the folder list.

also, I have a slide show of several pictures created with the picture
gallery tool. I just deleted a few pictures from that slideshow using the
'wizard'... however, the pictures are still listed in the folder list.

likewise, i didnt like the first set of buttons i used, so i changed to
new buttons. now those old, allegedly deleted buttons are listed as jpgs in
the folder list.

so, is there a way to get frontpage to clean up files as they are removed
from the site, or a cleanup tool to run, or

do i have to make a list of things i have deleted and then try to find them
and delete them manually/individually? will this clean up the code? or will
all those deleted pictures and stuff still be cluttering things up and making
my site much larger than it 'actually' is?

thanks in advance for any help you can give,

brian

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You have to actually delete individual files, all you are doing when you delete the image from a
page, is to remove the reference to the image.

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[Andrew Murray]

You have to actually delete the file - in "deleting" from the web page all
you're doing is removing it from the page.

If it did actually delete it permanently by removing it from a web page,
we'd have a lot more 'how do I retrieve an accidentally deleted picture..."
questions on this group!

If you go into the File list in FP and select the files and press delete,
they will be deleted when you click OK BUT - they will *not* go to the
Windows Recycle bin!

One good thing when using FP to publish in HTTP mode is when you next
publish it will find any file on the server which is now "unmatched" with
the same file on the local machine (if you deleted it) so it will ask to
delete the files on the server as well - that automates the clean up on the
server end - but it won't do this automatically; it will ask you.

The process is reversed if you delete a file on the server but not on the
local machine - FP will ask "Unmatched file on local web, do you want to
delete it?" (or to that effect).

So...although the picture may not be "in the web page" any longer, it still
exists on your hard drive until you delete it. It does "Clean up the code"
at the time you remove the image from the page. In GUI view, if you remove
a picture, it will remove the equivalent <img> tag in the code.