iWeb deletes sites when I publish locally

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iWeb deletes sites when I publish locally

Hi There,

I recently made changes to my website (yvonski.com) well tried to.

My website has an English and a French version and so does my blog. I do use iWebSites to open the one site I want to work on. Once done with the new input I publish the pages locally. The process is flawless but when I check my "Sites" folder an entire version is gone.

Say I worked on the English pages and publishing them, it turns out the French version vanished from the folder as they were there before the English pages were published. But iWebSites still shows all the pages and versions from my website and blog.

All the website versions and pages can still be found in "Username / Library / Application Support / iWeb" folder".

Not that it's the end of the world but it is annoying having the "Sites" folder acting weirdly.

I am using iWeb 3.0.4.

Does anyone have any idea as for why an entire site can disappear from the "Sites" folder in my username section?

Thank you guys,

Yvon.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Mar 25, 2016 1:34 AM

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Ethmoid

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Mar 26, 2016 2:22 AM in response to Vonz

Can you explain why you are using iWebSites when, as you say you are using iWeb 3.0.4 or iWeb 09? This could be the problem, because if you are using iWeb 09, then you don't need to use iWebSites because the ability to work on your individual sites exists in iWeb 09.

In iWeb 08, you did not have the ability to do this and iWeb would open the first site and yes, you had to use iWebSites to access the site that you wanted - either you used this or your separated out your domain.sites files so that you one domain per a file and then you could open them, but iWeb 09 got rid of that and made it so that you could select any site to work on in one domain.sites file.

If you are using iWebSites with iWeb 09/3.0.4, then this may be the problem, because you don't need to. Try just using iWeb 09 without it and opening your domain.sites file and you should be okay.

If you are using iWeb 08 instead and not iWeb 09, then iWeb 08 won't work with any of the updated OS X's such as Yosemite or El Capitan.

Are you also aware that iWeb is an unsupported product and has been for about the last 4 years and has not been updated for the last 6?

Perhaps it is time to move on a re-build your site using something current? Take a look atEverWeb.

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