iWeb pages disappeared!

You won't be able to get to your site via iDisk anyway, as this is the published version and you can't update a published version.

Your site cannot just disappear. You need the domain.sites file which you will find under User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain.sites file. Look here and you will find your site.

Well, all I can say is go back to User/Library/Application Support/iWeb and there should be a domain.sites file that has your website in it. I presume that you saved it in the first place? If so, it has to be there and the User Library is where iWeb stores its files. Unless you decided to save the file in a different location on your hard drive?

You could always try using the search facility to try and locate it.

Do you have a MobileMe account and did you publish the site?

The thing is that if you created the site and saved it, it can't just disappear. It has to be somewhere on your hard drive.

Go to Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web and drag the domain file onto your desktop.
Go to Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb and drag the domain file in to the iWeb folder.

I don't keep my sites in the iweb folder but have noticed a new file in there that I did not create, I thought it was empty up until the mme transition. But I wouldn't have thought a new domain file would overwrite an existing one. The published site on your idisk cannot be reimported into iweb. If that is all you have then it is a rebuild - copy and paste the contents to a new site. Have you done a spotlight search for iweb domain?

This happened to me day before yesterday. I had worked in iWeb the night before and spent about 30 minutes making changes, etc. I saved, then moved a copy of the iWeb folder in Library/Application Support to my other drive. I published to my desktop folder. Everything was backed up, right?

Next day - NONE of my changes were saved - even in the backup drive.

Then pages began to just disappear.

In a panic I called Apple Care, and the tech consulted with another tech and neither was sure why this was happening. I had installed the latest Apple 'updates' between the time I saved the files and found them 'not' saved. Perhaps it was the Apple updates? Not sure, but one thing they had me do was to move the domain file from the iWeb folder to the desktop and then move it back again.

Everything has been fine since - but none of us had any idea how or why that worked!

I was referring to the domain file - not the published files.
I keep all my sites on separate domain files each in a separate folder.
With previous versions of iWeb, the domain file that existed in Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb was that of the last site you worked on.
Since upgrading to V 2.0.4 my iWeb folder is empty.
As always, I would advise everybody to make a regular backup of the domain file(s) and keep a copy on an external drive and/or on your iDisk.
I use Apple's backup software to do this and have it set to run automatically at predetermined intervals.
My domain files are backed up to two external drives and the "Backup" folder on my iDisk.

Sorry to hear your work is lost. This is not a typical Apple experience overall but unfortunately it is typical in this scenario. When or if you have saved your iWeb outside the default file folder Library/Application Support/iWeb, when Apple updates iWeb it often forgets where you were pointing iWeb to originally.

This is the third time it has happened to me, luckily this last time I didn't count on Apple to live up to their brand promise (they usually do, but of all things not to, people's pictures, memories and websites are something you don't want to mess with as you all know).

I backed up my site using Time Machine, unfortunately the last back up was April 27th so I'm still losing months of blogs about my daughter (which someday I was hoping to share with her when she's older). Disappointing that they can't get this right for a few people.

If you moved your domain.sites or domain.sites2 files to another location aside from the default you can try to find them and double click them to open. If you can't find them, you're SOL without a back up. All in all, my only terrible heartbreaking experience on a Mac.

Publishing to a folder is just that, publishing to a folder and is not backing up. To back up you need to do this with the domain.sites file. If you only way of backing up is publishing to a folder, you will be disappointed, as iWeb cannot do anything at all with a published site.

hello thia, did you resolve your issue? as i have a similar problem iv lost my iweb files and want to know if i can retrieve them in anyway. i was editing my site and didnt like the changes so i then quit iweb when it asked me to save changes i responded no, then i re-opened iweb only to find that my files have gone can you help me with this as iv put lots of work into this for the last 3-months and i dont fancy starting over again as it is a big site! can you help?