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 16, 2006 3:26 AM in response to derekbalsley

At 6:00AM this morning, I tried to republish both my sites. Every thing went witout a hitch, and all my pages turned blue indicating success. Then the window dropped down to advise my it would finish publication in the background while I continued doing my work.
Then anothe rwindow popped up saying there was an error on an image, and every page returned to the red status.

So I tried again.

This time, I followed through on the publishing window, indicating page X, then page Y etc was being transerred to my iDisk. 75% was uploaded, when I got a message indicating there was an error with the server, "try again later". It's the first such notice I get in the 4 weeks I've been playing with iWeb.

* Guy

May 16, 2006 3:32 AM in response to Guy Parrot

Further to my previous post, I noticed that everything related to .Mac is slow as cold molasses. This board crawls, and checking my .Mac account and available space takes forever.
Gee, I thought most of you guys would still be asleep this early, and I'd stand a chance to publish decently...

* Guy

May 16, 2006 3:54 AM in response to Aaron Boatwright

Same here in france

May 16, 2006 5:52 AM in response to Aaron Boatwright

Same here, i hope apple are paying attention to this thread !!

Shame no-one from apple had the decency to log on to this forum for two minutes and post an explanation or apology !!!

May 16, 2006 6:29 AM in response to Nick de la Force

Amen!

Kyn Drake

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May 16, 2006 8:12 AM in response to Nick de la Force

This forum is user to user only. The official way to send feedback (which every one having a problem should do) is via this page.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html

The Apple employees on this site are mainly to keep everything on topic.

rtemp

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May 16, 2006 8:19 AM in response to Kyn Drake

I am having the same problems as everyone else. However, if I publish to a folder it takes a while but it eventually works. Hopefully it is just network bandwidth?

iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) Needs more memory

May 16, 2006 10:16 AM in response to rtemp

I have tried to publish my site to .Mac multiple times, but each time an error message is generated. It does seem, however, that changes get published. I tried to publish my site early this morning to see if bandwidth was the problem. This did not make a difference.

May 16, 2006 10:39 AM in response to Dudley Warner

I don't think it makes a lot of difference when you try to upload, there is always some part of the world awake, although I accept it is probably best to avoid early evening in the USA

May 16, 2006 11:05 AM in response to Aaron Boatwright

Me three. . .

Just another adding to the list. Exact same issues, errors.

Saw something on another subject a few more down, where someone went to their iDisk, deleted the whole Web folder, then republished, with success. I've got about 10 podcasts (40MB each) all there -- I'd hate to think I'd have to upload each of them again. Has anyone else tried this?

Paul

Alxalx

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May 16, 2006 11:12 AM in response to Aaron Boatwright

As a temporary workaround I published my sites to a folder on my local HD (FILE > PUBLISH TO A FOLDER) and then dragged it to the proper "web" folder in idisk. That worked fine, proving also that the .png error messages is indeed an upload issue.

May 16, 2006 11:20 AM in response to pcamarata

I as well deleted my site from iDisk and attempted to re-publish. I was met with the same errors related to graphics on my website. Through when I visited the live site I only noticed the advanced features missing, counter, comments and search. I've already attempted to re-publish 4 times today with no success.

I took further steps and opened the Domain file and deleted plist files with no effect. I am almost ready to just scrap the whole thing and start from scratch but my site is so large it would really suck to have to rebuild it.

I sent feedback to Apple outlining my issue and software versions. I hope they can resolve this soon.

May 16, 2006 11:22 AM in response to Alxalx

Thanks for the suggestion, however I wonder if those features tied to .Mac (Comments, Counter & Search) will be carried over.

May 16, 2006 12:01 PM in response to Alxalx

Aaron,

I just hit "Publish to .Mac" instead of "Publish All to .Mac" and it worked, including the new comment and find functions. I just don't know whether "Publish All" will give me any of the other "benefits" of 1.1

Paul

May 16, 2006 12:02 PM in response to Alxalx

Pardon my ignorance, but is there any danger of doing it this way in the mean time (while the server problems are being worked out)? I mean, is there a possibility I could mess something up? What are the exact steps?

1. Publish to 'folder'.
2. Drag and drop that folder into your iDisk in the correct spot.
3. 'sync' iDisk.

Is this it?

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