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 10:15 PM in response to SkipHaughay

You can manually publish to .Mac and still get all of the special .Mac-only features by following these steps:

1) Choose "Publish All to .Mac" from the file menu.

2) As soon as you get the message that your site upload will continue in the background, open Applications > Utilities > Terminal

3) In Terminal type:

open /var/tmp

4) A Finder window will open. Find the folder called "folder.SomeNumber". Open it and then open the TemporaryItems folder. In it should be several folders called com.apple.iWeb Some_LongNumber. In one of them you will find a folder called "sites" that contains all of your sites from iWeb ready to upload to .Mac.

5) Copy (Option-Drag) this "sites" folder to your desktop

6) Now you can upload the contents of that folder to the proper location on your iDisk (the correct path is iDisk/Web/Sites/iWeb/)

-Chad

JRox

Level 1

20 points

May 16, 2006 10:22 PM in response to Joel Suplido

Ok guys, I need your opinion. I haven't updated my iWeb application because I was out of town and now that im back I see people are having problems with the update. My question, is it really wide spread? Is it happening to everyone? Should I update or not? Sorry for putting this here but I thought it would be a waste to create a new topic for this dumb question. Thanks! =)

iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

May 16, 2006 10:24 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

I thought iWeb v1.1 was not publishing properly at first, so I came here. But it is indeed working fine, at least for me.

When I initially clicked to publish, iWeb v1.1 asked if I wanted to just publish the modifications or republish all my (3) sites for greater efficiency. I clicked on the latter, longer proicess. Instead of showing the old bar loading for the duration of the publishing process, iWeb now shows publishing progress using little pie-chart like circles next to the site name in the Site Organizer column on the left.

I thought the app was crashed when I clicked to Publish but didn't notice those little circles, and many features were grayed-out - including the Publish button on the bottom left of the window. It was in fact publishing, and just taking a while. (Kind of like I've just done.)

Is it possible that some of you are experiencing my non-problem and misinterpreting it as a problem? Perhaps I'm just one of the lucky ones, or else some Apple server/bandwidth issue has been resolved. I can't know but thought I'd share my experience with you just in case.

G5 iMac (1.8 GHz; 512 MB RAM) Mac OS X (10.3.9) iLife '06

May 16, 2006 10:26 PM in response to JRox

Yeah, I would wait.

I thought I was free and clear with the delete PrePublishState.plist method but I made a few changes to a few photo pages and attempted to Publish and I again met with my now FAVORITE error message.

This iWeb update, though it looked promising has been a big mess. Kinda surprised the media hasn't caught on.

Neto

Level 2

300 points

May 16, 2006 11:10 PM in response to bob6stringer

I don't think so bob...

One reason is a message saying that "publishing will continue in background" alerting users of the new upload process.

In fact, this problem is not new at all...happens everytime there is a large quantity of users trying to update their sites at the same time, after a hollyday, for example.

Seems that .Mac is not able to handle all iWeb users at the same time.

It is a shame, because iWeb is pretty nice, but the .Mac side of the app is lame...

May 17, 2006 12:09 AM in response to derekbalsley

I am haveing exactly the same problem, and this thread has already 8 pages

Apple are you sleeping ?! If not PLEASE do something about it

Alxalx

Level 2

179 points

May 17, 2006 2:08 AM in response to Jason Golden

Yes Jason. The temporary patch that I posted earlier today works only if you make changes to the pages without adding or deleting pages. If you add/delete/move a page iWeb tries to republish the entire site and you'll get the same error.

Zato-1

Level 1

10 points

May 17, 2006 2:14 AM in response to Aaron Boatwright

Maybe the problem is due the fact that when first republished the site in iWeb 1.1, not all files (pictures, videos, etc) were correctly "converted" to show up faster... if this is the problem, maybe toying arround with the folder on iDisk /web/sites/iWeb might get this problem temporarly straight.... anybody tried / has feedback on this?

Greetings,
Z1

Alxalx

Level 2

179 points

May 17, 2006 2:30 AM in response to Zato-1

That's a possibility, but in that case I think we should find a way to toy with iWeb and its conversion process, rather than with the iDisk published folder.

Zato-1

Level 1

10 points

May 17, 2006 3:07 AM in response to Alxalx

Yes, you're also right, but the hick-up is that there is no possibility to check/change the conversion process in iWeb... or have I missed some (hidden) setting for that?

kcmccabe

Level 1

0 points

May 17, 2006 3:49 AM in response to kcmccabe

I seemed to be able to publish successfully this morning. 🙂

Thanks to everyone for all your good insight.

-K

Zato-1

Level 1

10 points

May 17, 2006 4:55 AM in response to kcmccabe

Yep, publishing seems to work flawlessly again!

dreamery

Level 2

275 points

May 17, 2006 5:10 AM in response to derekbalsley

I am having the same problem here and I am a zillion times further than you in Malaysia

dreamery

Level 2

275 points

May 17, 2006 5:20 AM in response to derekbalsley

I had to force myself back to version 1.0 and I am 90% thru upload after one hour and more. Urgent stuuf needed upload to my overseas clients.

I shall update my iWeb again once Apple fixes this problem. I had no problems with 1.1 earlier today when it involved minor updates. Those updates were fast and without problems. Then I had to upload three new pages and it took 30 minutes before various error messages came thru. That was 7 hours ago. I could have watched 'The Lord of the Rings' Trilogy. Everything everyone experienced, I did too. Here's hoping for smoother sailing.

dreamery
http://web.mac.com/joeleong/iWeb/dreamery/home.html

jscordia

Level 1

0 points

May 17, 2006 5:30 AM in response to Zato-1

All the above is happening to me. Just want to add my weight to this angry mob! I have pitch-fork and flaming torch to hand. Now which way to Cupertino?

Just kidding Apple tech guys, maybe you are 'vicims of your own success' with iWeb/.Mac. You're usually quite proactive on these things, so lets hope we get a speedy resolution!

Cheers

Jon

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