Since installing Lion a couple of weeks ago, I have been in iWeb ****.
For the third time in a week iWeb (v 3.0.4) has FAILED to save my changes, costing me countless hours of work. On Wednesday I closed iWeb -- it had been open on my Mac for 2 days while I did extensive work (c. 20 hours worth). I save religiously, and saved of course before I closed the app, with no complaints. Re-opened to find all work from past day lost (a save from roughly a day ago)-- and it is at this point one learns the Time Machine DOES NOT BACK UP THE Domain container file if iWeb is open.
Even worse, it restores a zero length file.
I eventually restored a Monday morning version losing 2 days of work.
Today is Saturday. Friday I had re-built much of the lost work, saved, closed, took a Time Machine manual backup.
I have just opened iWeb to find all the work I had done and saved in the most paranoid fashion possible, gone.
The Time Machine backup version was also bad. I lost Friday's work.
I am maintaining about 20 mico sites using iWeb -- NO WHERE IN THE DOCUMENTATION OF THE NEW MACOS LION WAS I WARNED THAT IWEB WAS A DISCONTINUED PRODUCT!!
Of course I would never have upgraded -- especially as I am struggling to find a single benefit of the new OS (which I had to pay for despite assurances when I bought my current MacBook that I was entitled to a free upgrade)
I have spoken to a very senior techinical support chap at Apple USA. He really knows his stuff. iWeb is definitely a dead product, no further support is being put into it, and will certainly go away in the next OS.
Clearly they didn't even bother to test it thoroughly on this OS.
The thought of migrating 3 years of work to another platform terrifies me, even presuming I had the time to deal with it. On the current site I have missed the deadline by a country mile and no end in site as I can't trust iWeb in the least.
Seething. Disgusted. Very very very stressed out.
-gordon
(Apple user since 1981)