iWeb Crashes on Publish

Hey Mark,

I had/have the same problem. What I had to do was delete a bunch of blog entries. Then it published fine. I worked away and then I hit some magic maximum number and I had to delete again. I could add pages to the site all I wanted to. It had nothing to do with the site size, just the number of blog entries. (Is there some max number we don't know about?)

I now have to delete one blog to publish a new one. Yes, this bites. I hope and pray iWeb 2 corrects this. We'll see.

I have had similar problems and since I am travelling for a year, deleting pages is not an option since my Blog is to be my final record.
I did resize many photos, and this helped save space. But now iWeb is quitting during upload again.
I am going to add another 1 Meg memory to my Macbook Pro 2.16 1 Gig and see if this helps.
I am also going to add a backup drive and have saved my domain file (iWeb's file) to a DVD just in case.
I will report back if any of these step change the outcome.

Similar problem here. Frequent crashes when publishing. The "publish all to .Mac" command seems to help but is time-consuming. Occasionally crashes when saving. Whole program seems balkier and less stable than when I started using it several months ago.

I have been removing in-line photos from old blog entries but I don't know that it's helping. Intuition tells me it's not a problem with the size of the site but something in its makeup that's hanging me up.

Hoping for an update that will fix this. In the meantime, grateful for tips and ideas.

Still wondering if there is anything I can do to help with all this crashing.

I tried taking the files from an old site off the .Mac server to see if that would help, but no...still crashed as soon as I tried to publish today's blog entry.

Help? Anyone?

Sorry Scott, the only way I found I could stop my crashing was to remove a collection of old blog entries. Publish All also sometimes works, but, like you said, very time consuming. Wish I knew another way.

Huh. So I just tried to Publish and, as usual, I was having trouble. But I noticed this time it hung up on one particular blog entry that is very graphic intensive (I've seen it hang up on that one before). I had to force quit and publish again. This time it worked.

But I decided to take the graphic intensive blog entry and create it's own page on my site for it. It's really a stand alone article anyway. I deleted it from my blogs, hit publish, and it published VERY quickly and smoothly.

Could my problems all along been liked to this one blog entry? We'll see.

My intuition suggests that the problem may go back to the point a few weeks ago when I started to illustrate my blog entries with more photos. But when I went back and took most of the photos off of my blog entries it didn't help (at least not immediately). Like you, I wonder if there is perhaps one pic on a blog entry that is somehow the source of my problems.

In the meantime, I wish there were a way to keep my blog entries somewhere else when I take them down off my site. Archival permanence is, after all, part of the point of a diary.

Please keep the ideas coming. Thanks!

Dang. It wasn't the problem. Just tried to publish a new blog and it crashed. Deleted an old blog. Still crashed. Now trying a Publish All (which will take an hour).

All I can do is sit back and wait for iWeb 2. But now we get news that Leopard is delayed until October which presumably means iLife with iWeb 2 is delayed until October. That's a long time for a site on life support like mine.

At this moment, I really regret hitching my web wagon to iWeb. 😟

Okay, I've shaken my depression and come up with what will have to be a solution for now. I've created a new blog on my site, and deselected the "show in header" so it's hidden. Into that I've moved about 30 old blog entries. You can't drag and drop, you have to copy and paste the text and pics into a new entry and then post date it. This (hopefully) will relieve the burden on my main blog, and if iWeb 2 solves the problem, I can move them back. Better than deleting them, and at least they are linkable (not sure if they are searchable though).

BTW, my main blog starts crashing at about 190 blog entries.

Thanks for the idea. Maybe I will try a version of that.

My current blog has many fewer entries than that, alas.

Other problems: I frequently get a message saying "the document 'iWeb' could not be saved." The program also hangs up when trying to create a new photo page.

I'll post again if I figure anything out. Thanks again.

Yep, I get the error message as well. I ignore it, quit the program, and find more often than not the site has, indeed, saved.

Here's another bit of buggy fun. Sometimes when I wait the agonizing full hour to Publish All, it ends with a error message; "an error occurred, site cannot be published" (or something like that). If this happens to you, resist the urge to throw the computer out the window. Simply quit the program, reboot your computer, empty trash (you'll see there are now mysteriously thousands of items), and reopen iWeb. If all the pages of the site are now red, that's good! Simply hit the Publish button and the site publishes quickly and without problems.

I got all the same problems and all the same sentiments about iWeb! Sounds like Apple can't afford sitting this out until iWeb 2. They need a fix for this bug ... it basically renders the application useless. Deleting my blogs is not an option.

Sounds like I should have read this topic before I posted mine about blogging problems.
I've been experiencing similar problems, although generally it's not a crash at publishing time. It's more of a problem with it taking forever to open iWeb and forever to save and even to scroll sometimes.
One entry in particular seemed to precipitate matters and it was image heavy and with images that moved with the text (not wrapped - that seems almost impossible - but they moved with the text). I was also just reading a post about photos and how they should be resized rather than just dragged into the blog entry, as I have been doing. So that could be part of it.
I also regret using iWeb and envy people who are using Typepad or Blogger and have LOTS of photos in their posts 😟
It's going to be difficult to wait until October.

Interesting, iWeb crashes for me when trying to publish, and I have NO blog entries; just pages with photos and links to external sites. I don't allow iWeb to publish my photos, I use another program for that.

On a regular basis when publishing, iWeb will crash. It always takes a LONG time to save, open, or publish.

I wish there existed a program that would validate the contents of the iWeb data files.