iWeb on ML not finding domain file

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MBP2007 Author

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iWeb on ML not finding domain file

I have transferred the domain file from user/<username>/Library/iWeb from my snow leopard external boot drive to the Mountain Lion boot drive, but when I start iWeb it shows no sites! It works OK in Snow leopard. Has Apple nobled it in Mountain Lion? and if so WHY?????

iWeb surely must still be a viable program for creating web sites, and using it to upload to new servers can't hurt Apple can it?

Can anyone tell me what the **** is going on?? 😠

Mike.

Info: Mountain Lion installed on an internal 160GB partition of a 1TB drive in my Macbook Pro

Snow Leopard installed on a Lacie external Firewire 800 drive.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, Now 17" 2009 Model, 1TB HDD 8GB Mem

Posted on Aug 21, 2012 4:34 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 21, 2012 4:50 AM in response to MBP2007

Are you sure you've put it in the correct place? Apple have hidden the user’s Library folder to casual viewers, in an attempt to stop new Mac users screwing their machines up. To access it, in the Finder go to the ‘Go’ menu and hold down the Option (Alt) key; the Library folder will appear as a choice.

When you've opened your user Library, go to Application Support/iWeb and make sure your Domain file is placed in that folder.

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Answer 2

Roddy

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Aug 21, 2012 4:57 AM in response to MBP2007

Some info about iWeb and Mountain Lion...

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/mountain-lion.html

It doesn't matter where you keep the Domain.sites2 file as long as YOU know where it is!

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Answer 3

MBP2007 Author

Level 1

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Aug 21, 2012 12:29 PM in response to Roddy

Thanks a lot Roddy, the link led me to download a utility that made iWeb "see" my multi-domain site file.

and Yes Roger I did put the file in user/Library iWeb, but iWeb was just ignoring it. It was lucky that I still had a copy on an older Snow Leopard boot disc that I still had floating around because it had "mysteriously" disappeared off my Lion backup copy!

Thanks again to both of you for your help.

Regards, Mike.

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Answer 4

khartnyc

Level 1

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Sep 5, 2012 11:23 AM in response to Roddy

This was an enormous help. Thank you. I also found out you can keep the domain file and domain cracker in drop box. You can set up domain cracker right in drop box actually.

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Answer 5

Dasm1

Level 1

4 points

May 20, 2013 1:56 PM in response to MBP2007

Here is one more tip .....

I am about to go overseas and had to get iWeb sites

transfered to my laptop. The laptop has the iWeb program but

lacks the new client files.

Here is what I did :

Finder -> Go -> Press option key to reveal "Library" -> Application support -> Domain sites2

Make a duplicate of Domain site2 and drag it into the dropbox !

Now I can open iWeb from my laptop and hopefully upload changes.

I don't think the changes will be reflected in the original computer though.

I wonder an alias file would synchronize with the original.

Any other ideas ? Let me know.

D

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