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Mark Sansone Author

Level 3

545 points

iWeb Crashes on Publish

Hello all,

iWeb crashes when I publish. I can not publish to a folder, publish all, or publish. It seems to crash around the same place, but I can't say it always crashes when it's on the same item.

I've tried to boot into safe mode and publish, but still no luck.

It's relatively small... 60 or so blogs and about 2 dozen photo pages.

I'm travelling so I don't have access to anyone else's machine to try swapping around the domain file.

I'm cranking on an intel Macbook Core Duo 2 GHZ with a gig of ram and plenty of hard drive space.

Thanks in advance

Macbook Core Duo 2.0, Mac OS X (10.4.9), 1 GB RAM, 120GB HD

Posted on Apr 12, 2007 3:59 PM

77 replies

Apr 22, 2007 6:09 PM in response to Mark Sansone

Hello All -

I'm experiencing all the same problems with iweb crashing, but I don't have any blogs in my pages. Anyone have any ideas what else could be causing this?

I can't publish to .mac, publish all, or publish to a folder without crashing - I've tried all the "fixes" I've read about to no avail - and I'm just at a standstill.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mark Sansone Author

Level 3

545 points

Apr 23, 2007 3:14 PM in response to Bart Kerkhofs

I agree whole-heartedly.

The app really is rendered unusable by the inability to publish.

I have also experienced what others have in regards to the speed of iWeb load times/save times.

While I understand that this is still the first version, there should never be ANY version of a program where it will eventually lose it's usability.

It seems ridiculous that we must sit and wait until the new version comes out. This app has potential, but I see these many issues as eventually losing Apple their iWeb user base as people flock to programs that work. That, to me, seems like it's worth it for Apple to try to find a fix, and fast.

Mark Sansone Author

Level 3

545 points

Apr 23, 2007 3:23 PM in response to Mark Sansone

Has anyone been able to take their machine in to a Genius Bar to see what pointers they can give?

As I've said, I'm currently traveling and won't have access to an Apple Store for at least the next 6 mos.

Thanks,
Mark

Apr 24, 2007 5:09 AM in response to Mark Sansone

I tried starting a new blog in addition to my old blog. Certainly hasn't solved the problem, but things seem to have changed a bit.

I seem to be crashing less, but I get lots of error messages such as "Publish Error" and "the .Mac servers are busy." Sometimes my site publishes anyway. "Publish all to .Mac" works better than the "Publish" button but is very slow and still produces error messages.

I seem to be doing much better saving now, but still having lots of trouble publishing.

Where is Apple on all of this? Will they never chime in with some help?

MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

zencat

Level 1

7 points

Apr 24, 2007 5:21 PM in response to ScottDirect

Where's Apple?

On the phone.

(iPhone)

:

Mark Sansone Author

Level 3

545 points

Apr 25, 2007 9:24 PM in response to ScottDirect

These are user boards. Apple doesn't post here. It's more for the user community to help each other out.

Anyone have a chance to see a genius yet?

Cheers!
-Mark

Apr 26, 2007 1:15 PM in response to Mark Sansone

I was having the same problem. It always crashed on "archive." All my entries have photos as it's an art Blog , but they were mostly around 50-75k.
I took someone's suggestion on this discussion and deleted about 10 entries. (I had around 160) and it worked! May the trend continue and may they fix the problem in iweb2.

Mark Sansone Author

Level 3

545 points

Apr 26, 2007 6:17 PM in response to Kay Crain

Kay,

Really glad you were able to get it to work by deleting some blogs. If that's a solution that suits, it's great that you're able to do it.

Has anyone had any luck that didn't involve deleting blogs?

-Mark

Apr 26, 2007 9:07 PM in response to Mark Sansone

I dumped my whole old web site including its blog (I hope I got it backed up elsewhere, but I'm not sure actually) and now everything is working fine.

What a disappointment though. Not even close to my .Mac storage limit. Just an unstable program once the site--or at least the blog(s)--gets sizeable. Oh, well.

noelgama

Level 1

0 points

Apr 27, 2007 3:00 AM in response to Mark Sansone

Same problem:

1. When I click on the iWeb icon, the application takes almost 5 minutes to open; (iWeb contains about 35 blogs of mine, loaded with pics - 110 MB in all. It synchs with DotMac)

2. When I quit, it takes as much time for closing;

3. After closing, my computer becomes very sluggish; (All this when offline)

4. After using iWeb, I cannot connect/access the internet without re-starting my computer.

My RAM is 512 MB and the 40 GB hard disk has very little free space, about 2 GB.

Do you think that upgrading RAM to 1 GB as well as freeing about 10 GB will solve the problem?

Apple support had said that it was because I had been using a dial up connection. My ISP said the same thing and both said broadband would solve the problem. However, now that I have broadband, the problem still persists. iWeb hangs at exactly the same spot everytime!

Apr 27, 2007 7:17 AM in response to noelgama

I don't think more memory would help the crashing problem like I was having, but it sounds like you're having other performance problems that could be related to RAM size. Sorry for your trouble--hope you are able to work it out.

Apr 27, 2007 8:26 AM in response to Mark Sansone

I have had a similar problem; not a crash but a hang and a "Force Quit" situation. I noticed the hang seemed to occur on a certain page (one of my company pages which lists old RFQs) and, looking at it, it had gotten exceptionally long.

Thinking of that, I left iWeb alone and, sure enough, after about 5 minutes of the beachball (and still getting the "Application Not Responding" message when right clicking the app icon in the Dock) it finished and uploaded.

Afterwards, I reviewed the page and cut out about 60% to 75% of the text (it's just an attic/save area) and the beachball only appeared for about a minute. So, problem solved, sort of.

Agreed; if we have to wait 'til Leopard for the next version of iWeb, I'm hoping Apple will provide some sort of update/upgrade to get us through.

Apr 28, 2007 3:17 PM in response to coreworksnet

I described my problem and the need to get it fixed on 'http://www.apple.com/feedback/iweb.html'. I suggest that folks in this discussion also drop their problem into this feedback form. Just maybe Apple will get to understand there's a little bit of an urgency and that there are a lot of people having problems. I paid for iLife, I'm paying for a lot of .Mac space ... it's all no good to me since iWeb is basically useless.

Mark Sansone Author

Level 3

545 points

Apr 29, 2007 6:33 PM in response to Bart Kerkhofs

Bart,

I've done the same and even linked this topic. This is a good idea and I encourage everyone else does the same.

Apr 29, 2007 8:00 PM in response to Mark Sansone

I did it too! They need to know that iWeb crashes whenever you try to publish, after the blog(s) reach a moderately big zize/length/number of entries.

iWeb Crashes on Publish