One site, 2 computers

[Bob L]

I spend time at two locations and maintain a website using two computers and
FP 2000. I synchronize the computers by making a complete backup when I
move from one location to the other and then only load the changed files.
In one location I have a fast computer and fast internet connection. The
other location, a summer home, I have a older computer and a dialup
connection.

This has worked well until now. In the past few weeks I've been at the
location with the fast computer/internet connection and made quite a few
changes to the website. Now that I'm back at the summer home and updated
the slower computer, I'm not able to upload files. When I publish,
FrontPage tries to update a older file that does not need to be updated.
I've checked and the date/time for the file is the same on both the computer
and website. The update never is completed and times out.

Question: What is the best way to synchronize the computers?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

It may be best to open the site from your current location and publish down to the PC before making
changes, then make your changes and re-publish or you can work directly on the live site and then do
a publish to the local computer as a back up.

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[Bob L]

Well, my current location is where I have a 24 k dialup and the website is
about 80 megs or so so that would be a big problem to publish back. I don't
understand why I'm having this trouble now. During the summer, I moved
between locations a couple of times and didn't have many problems as long as
I only updated files that had been changed. I don't understand why it's now
trying to upload a file that hasn't been changed in quite a while and is the
same on both computers and the website.

This isn't the end of the world as I will close up the summer place this
Saturday and bring the slow computer home. In the meantime I can manually
change a few files using an upload utilty provided by the website service
provider.

 

[Andrew Murray]

try selecting only the files you know you've changed, the right click on one of
the selected files and select "publish selected pages".

 

[Clark]

This is the situation for which I use gotomypc.com, which I sign up for
when I go on vacation (usually I sign up for a period of a month which
costs about $20).

It allows me to have remote access to my fast desktop from a slower
connection (or a fast wireless hotspot) when I am away from home. That
way all the updates are done over the fast home connection.

 

[Bob L]

Andrew:

Thanks for the tip. It looks like this will work fine.

Bob L