What is the difference iWeb and Homepage

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What is the difference iWeb and Homepage

I'm trying to back up everything I had published to my iDisk (over several years) before installing Lion. The Gallery files were easy. But I'm confused about iWeb and a folder called "HomePage." The movies I had on iWeb...I could see and download. However, older movies are in a folder called HomePage. If I click on these older movies, I get a Quicktime Question mark symbol. For example, older movie 1 is located at: http://homepage.mac.com/username/iMovieTheater22.html and I cannot see it or download it. New movies, seem to be located in a different place, for example: http://web.me.com/username/myname/Austin_is_4!.html

Am I just out of luck?

Is there any way to retrieve the old movies?

Possibly worth noting...the old movies were probably published on an old MBP.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Safari 5.1

Posted on Mar 3, 2012 2:29 PM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Mar 3, 2012 2:46 PM in response to somewhitechick1

Homepage was Apple's early website hosting effort and that has been discontinued for quite a while now. The files created for the Homepage websites will reside on your iDisk in the iDisk/Sites folder.

Mount your iDisk on the Desktop and go to the Web folder. There will be the html files for the various websites and pages. The photo and video files used in those sites should be located in the Pictures and Movies folders.

For MobileMe websites all files for them will be inside folders in the iDisk/Web/Sites folder.

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Answer 2

Mar 3, 2012 3:08 PM in response to Old Toad

That makes sense...but...I suppose I'm out of luck if those old files are on the old computer which was stolen 😟

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Answer 3

Old Toad

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Mar 3, 2012 3:28 PM in response to somewhitechick1

Those files are online on your iDisk. Go to the Go menu in the Finder and select Go

When the iDisk appears on your Desktop open it and go to the folders I mentiond.

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Answer 4

Mar 3, 2012 4:05 PM in response to Old Toad

I went there. I've got nothing. I don't doubt your answer is correct though. I believe when my old MBP was stolen, I probably set up a new user name and password for everything, including my iDisk. That was over a year ago. So I'm not seeing any of those old files and I can only guess that I had a separate/different iDisk account.

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