iWeb publishing nightmare

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Hi everyone,

I just updated to iWeb 1.1 via software update, and now I can't publish anything to my .Mac page. I updated, and then made a new page (within my we site) in iWeb. I then pasted a long text-document from Pages in it, and hit Publish. It "created" the page, then said it would upload it. Well in the last step of uploading, I got an error saying "An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/Site/Rotary-2006 files/DSC01793framed.png”."
That file path is pointing to a page (a photo album) that was already published, and had been on the web for a while. I haven't deleted any of the pictures associated with it, so I don't know why it's having a problem. But none of the pictures are in the .png format, so I think the _framed.png portion of that file path may be pointing to one of iWeb's template files.

I even tried removing that photo page and re-publishing, but then it picks another picture out of another page that, again, should not be affected with this uploading a new text-only page.

Any one had the same problem?

Thanks!

Aaron Boatwright

600 MHZ iBook, iMac 800MHz, 1.42 GHz Mac Mini,1 GB RAM in both Mini and iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6) Aiport Extreme, and express. iPod2G, Nano, and shuflle.iSight. Mac LC580.

Posted on May 15, 2006 5:40 PM

241 replies

May 17, 2006 1:48 PM in response to ludo sauge

Same here. I am for whatever reason unable to publish now. I keep getting prompted for my credentials. I'm using 1.1.

May 17, 2006 1:51 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

So another twist to all this. Last night we didn't think our site was being published. It did show up. But lots of people are having problems viewing it on Windows in IE. Some people are getting dead navigation links, others don't get our pictures, and while it worked at first on my work windows machine, the last time I tried it, it hung IE and I had to force quit it. Anybody else seeing these kinds of problems?

fizz2u

Level 1

5 points

May 17, 2006 1:55 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

Same problem here... Last tried 5/17 @ 1:50pm in CA. Not working. Also can not get to mac.com. Just another post in case Apple's keeping count.

May 17, 2006 2:28 PM in response to fizz2u

Have been experiencing all that everyone else has. Can't publish. Get various error messages. I even got one telling me my .Mac account was about to expire when I just renewed a couple of days ago. And, yes, now I can't even log into my .Mac account.It is about 5:30 PM in New York.

PowerBook G4 12" Mac OS X (10.4.6)

May 17, 2006 2:33 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

DOES anyone have an answer to this problem? I think it is an iWeb 1.1 issue and NOT a .Mac issue since people seem to be able to publish just fine using 1.0.1

Neto

Level 2

300 points

May 17, 2006 2:34 PM in response to jlizar

Another proof that the problem IS traffic related.
The better your connection, the better your chance of getting the upload done.

stustu

Level 1

0 points

May 17, 2006 3:00 PM in response to Alxalx

Alxalx, you made my day!

Welll, make that my fifteen minutes of joy. The way you described what to do worked perfectly for me! The site was up and running and I could make small changes afterwards without having to uplaod the entire set of pages. The only caveat was: Slideshows from photo pages only appear in the graphite frame like "Homepage" once provided.

I, therefore, chose to upload my photo pages one by one. It worked quickly -- much more so than under previous versions of iWeb.

Then, however, Murphy, the devil, Bill Gates or whoever showed up: When Ireached the third or fourth of my photo pages I got error messages again saying the connection to .mac failed.

Alas! Seems like I'm back to square one. Will you do something about it, Apple? Hello?!

stustu

iMacCat

Level 1

15 points

May 17, 2006 3:01 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

Just wanted to say that I have the same problem too! iWeb keeps finding new photos to blame for the reason for it not Updating All to .Mac. Then it just leaves all the pages with RED font indicating not updated!
My perfectly good website may now get trashed just to sort out this update mess. I hope not!

Apple, you guys really dropped the ball on this one. Does no one test this stuff internally before sending it out?
Idea: How about first sending out the updates to ALL Apple employees only and then waiting 3 days to see what feedback you get. Then send out the Updates to the end-user community.

iMac Cat
BTW, Thanks for finally fixing the iPhoto speed issue with ver. 6!

stustu

Level 1

0 points

May 17, 2006 3:10 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

all .mac service are currently down. Let's see what happens afterwards. Are Apple reacting by any chance?

May 17, 2006 3:16 PM in response to stustu

I was able to publish again. So for now, everything seems to be OK.

fizz2u

Level 1

5 points

May 17, 2006 3:58 PM in response to Randy McElligott1

I am also able to publish, but some of my links aren't working. I'v tried rebuilding the text/link and a few more strated working, but not 100%.

May 17, 2006 4:03 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

ok...two issues...isync and iweb.....inter-related??? here's my experience...

my isync WAS active prior..but when I started to publish it reset to NOT sync and changed the setting in system preferences, at least temporarily......in addition, it DOES appear that the updating for iweb continues in the background despite the error code and blue/red pages to the contrary...BUT....IS ANYONE testing features within the page???...my photos are not expanding when clicked and the slideshow features do not work on the newly created pages...the old ones published before 1.1 work fine.

May 17, 2006 4:04 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

Well, .Mac services are online again. In the middle of uploading my site to see if they fixed anything. If not, I'm asking for a refund on my dotmac. I'm not wasting $100 a year on something that doesn't work right.

May 17, 2006 4:07 PM in response to John Ephip

Yep, they didn't fix a thing.

I am now calling and demanding a refund. This is ridiculous.

May 17, 2006 4:08 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

I have been travelling for 3 weeks ona ship and keeping a blog with photoo pages was well. for the last 3 days I get publishing errors. either .png or nop reason. At .40c a minute it is crazy. It takes 1 hour before it bombs out. PLUS why do we have to publish the entire site just for an update- it is costing a fortune

Apple please do something

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