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

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larryc

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May 15, 2006 7:44 PM in response to funky5mab

I'm thinkin the Apple guys might wanna come back into the office ........ like now.

ibook g4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

May 15, 2006 7:49 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

You can add me to the list of users who are now unable to update their .Mac website after updating to iWeb 1.1 . Each time I attempt to upload I receive an error related to a different image on a different page. I have given up..

Has anyone contacted Apple by phone in regards to this issue? If this indeed related to increased traffic on .Mac servers then they need to have iWeb provide an error message that explains the issue clearly.

iMac G5 2 Ghz 1.5 Ram 400 Gig HD & iBook G4 1.33 12 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

May 15, 2006 8:00 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

I am having the same issue. Each time I attempt to publish the entire site using iWeb 1.1, I receive an error related to a different image on a different page. I will wait until early tomorrow, and try again. I hope Apple fixes this soon.

May 15, 2006 8:01 PM in response to Jason Golden

It was exactly the same when iweb first came out, I'm not saying some people didn't continue to have uploading problems after the initial hype, but for most the problem went away.

Dukester

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May 15, 2006 8:04 PM in response to Dudley Warner

While Apple's page for the 1.0.1 updater downloads the 1.1 update, you might want to head here for the 1.0.1 update package:

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Apple-iWeb.shtml

This way you can restore off your original iLife '06 disks and get back to some semblance of normality.

Until 1.1 gets fixed. Hope this helps a few out there.

D.

May 15, 2006 8:04 PM in response to Winston Churchill

Weather or not this is related to server traffic is not the point. iWeb should state the real problem and not send the user on a wild goose chance troubleshooting images on their site to correct the issue.

May 15, 2006 8:08 PM in response to larryc

Hahaha, ya... I would have to agree with that! There is, no doubt, some phone calls being made this evening.

May 15, 2006 8:17 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

Same problem here. I have tried:

Trashing my entire existing site in case there was a permissions issue, deleting the iWeb preference file, ejecting my iDisk, & shutting down all other programs.

About a dozen attempts so far and still no luck. Lots of unhappy people tonight, I reckon!

May 15, 2006 8:10 PM in response to Jason Golden

THIS is very true... if iWeb would have told me that it was experiencing extremely heavy server traffic, I would have stopped thinking about it and would have come back in a few hours/days. I assume everybody else would have done the same thing, and wouldn't have tried over and over again to get their dear website to update/publish! They could have saved us all hours and hours of time by simply stating what the real problem was!

May 15, 2006 8:12 PM in response to Dudley Warner

Same problem here -- just adding myself to the chorus.

May 15, 2006 8:15 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

I have been able to update my site twice since i installed 1.1. I am still having problems with iweb enhancer

May 15, 2006 8:21 PM in response to derekbalsley

To troubleshoot my issue I deleted my site from idisk and attempted to publish all pages from iWeb again. Of course this attempt was again met with an error message related to yet another image on my page.

However, to see if anything was posted at all I went to my website and found that iWeb had upload the complete site minus the more advanced features such as Blog Comments, Counters and although I was able to enter a search term using the Blog Search tool, it did not return any results.

Though the error messages refer to only images I did not see any of them missing on the online site. I am rather dissappointed that all of my counters appear to be reset as well, at least from the .Mac homepage, counters do not appear on the online site for any of my pages.

I will say I am VERY impressed the perfomance enhancements... my pages load at leat 30% faster now.

Kyn Drake

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May 15, 2006 8:34 PM in response to Don Nelson

Lucky for me I updated earlier in the day. Had no problems, Domain file is over 100 megs and I haven't done any post processing on my files if it makes any difference.

May 15, 2006 8:37 PM in response to Michael Halpin

Hi Michael, I think I have an update for iWeb Enhancer ready to go, but I can't publish my site! 🙂 Check http://www.iwebenhancer.com later tonight or in the morning for an update.

May 15, 2006 8:40 PM in response to Kyn Drake

Question: Those people who are having issues uploading their site, have you deviated from the standard iWeb Template? I know I have adjusted Templates extensively and have several photo pages on a separate site linked back to my main site... I am wondering if extensive editing to templates may be causing these issues.

My Domain size is over 300 mb and has had no post-processing changes.

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