I am using iWeb with my Lion driven Macbook Pro. I understand that iWeb is being 'decomissioned' as such, by apple, however i still use it.
Every so often i open an iWeb Domain file, and for some reason the files (photos etc) go missing, replace by see through grey boxes with big 'X's' in them.
I then have to go find all the files and replace them.
Is there a way to stop this? or a way to fix it faster?
Cheers
iWeb '08, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
In Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
For opening your domain file in Lion or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
Just launch the application, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
You can download an already compiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.
See if using the Applescript helps.
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Not what i'm looking for, but thanks anyway. That issue was fixed ages ago with applescript.
This is what is in the place of photos...
Where originally i had a company logo. This has happened to ALL of my images in the Domain File. Nothing has moved, they are all still on my desktop. Anyway to stop this?/auto reconnect all the media?
If that's what you see in iWeb and is only intermittent then it could be a permissions issue with your domain file. Try this: download and run BatChmod on your domain file with the settings in this screenshot:
This is just to say thank you for the iWeb Switch Domain app. Have just located this thread, having just started to work with multiple sites under iWeb after a few years doing other things. The switcher works beautifully, and has saved me lots of frustrating messing around in attempting to switch between various iWeb files. Nothing to add, no problems as yet, just wanted to express my appreciation.
iWeb files missing while using Lion
