Publishing to disk

[JA]

I'm going to move my site to a new hosting company. The one I have been with
for 10 years has gone to the dogs.

But of course, first I need to copy my site to my disk. It is approximately
1200 mg in size. In order to import it to the new host, shouldn't I publish
it to disk, rather than downloading it through FTP?

My question is (I've never done this!) can I publish individual folders at a
time, rather than trying to get the whole thing at once? And if so, how?

Thanks for any help or advice.

J~

 

[Ian Haynes]

My question is (I've never done this!) can I publish individual folders at

a time, rather than trying to get the whole thing at once? And if so, how?

If you're using FP2003 you can open the 'Publish Site' window and then
right-click a file or folder and select 'Publish Selected Files'. Don't
recall whether this works in FP2002.

Most FTP clients also let you publish selected folders.

 

[Ronx]

If you use FrontPage navigation components you must publish the entire
website, or the navigation structure will be lost.
As Ian said, you can publish individual files - or a selection of files
in a folder, to get the bulk of the files down in manageable chunks.
Then publish the entire web using changed pages only - this should bring
down the navigation without downloading the files.

In my opinion your website, at over 1GB, is large enough to cause
problems with any host unless you have your own server. The problems
can be diminished if you divide the site into subwebs - a subweb behaves
like an independent website as far as FrontPage is concerned, and you
may be able to publish a complete subweb at a time, rather than a folder
at a time. If you use FrontPage navigation, FP includes, themes or
shared borders - these do not work over subwebs so must be thought about
first.

Do not use Import. Import in FrontPage will usually miss some files.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Publishing individual folders / files will not include any linked content.

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[P@tty Ayers]

I'm going to move my site to a new hosting company. The one I have been
with for 10 years has gone to the dogs.

But of course, first I need to copy my site to my disk. It is
approximately 1200 mg in size...

What gives the site such an immense file size?

 

[JA]

About half of the size is image files.

I published 2 or 3 folders at a time. No problem with shared borders, etc.,
don't have them.

Thanks to all!

 

[Ronx]

I would definitely move your image files into subwebs - change the
folders they are in to subwebs if there are no pages in the folders.
This does 2 things for you:

1) Makes the main web smaller, aiding publishing etc.

2) Enables you to use FTP to publish the images - if they are in subwebs
containing only images then FTP will not affect any pages or the main
web. FTP is much more efficient for moving images and media files than
the FP extensions. DO NOT use FTP with the main web.

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