Disappearing Pages

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JillEE

From reading other posts, I can see that other people are having the same problem I am, but no one has come up with a solution! I was using FrontPage 2000 with no problem for some time, and then one day (for no apparent reason) when I save a page it looks fine in FrontPage, but when I open it up in Internet Explorer the entire contents of the page disappear. The only thing that remains is the shared border! This is EXCEEDINGLY frustrating as one can SEE everything in Frontpage, but it will NOT save it. Not only does it not save it, all the work that I've done is lost. This has happened repeatedly. I upgraded to Frontpage 2003 thinking this would solve our problems, but alas it has not. Is there some bug in FrontPage that causes this to happen?? Clearly I am not alone in this problem, so surely someone has come up with a solution. Any and all help would be most appreciated. Jill Erickson
 
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Steve Easton

Close FrontPage.
Do a file search for files named *.web and delete all found
Then search for *.tmp and delete all found.
Clear the browser cache and history files.
Open FrontPage then open your web and recalculate hyperlinks.


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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
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JillEE said:
From reading other posts, I can see that other people are having the same
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problem I am, but no one has come up with a solution! I was using FrontPage 2000
with no problem for some time, and then one day (for no apparent reason) when I
save a page it looks fine in FrontPage, but when I open it up in Internet
Explorer the entire contents of the page disappear. The only thing that remains
is the shared border! This is EXCEEDINGLY frustrating as one can SEE everything
in Frontpage, but it will NOT save it. Not only does it not save it, all the
work that I've done is lost. This has happened repeatedly. I upgraded to
Frontpage 2003 thinking this would solve our problems, but alas it has not. Is
there some bug in FrontPage that causes this to happen?? Clearly I am not alone
in this problem, so surely someone has come up with a solution. Any and all help
would be most appreciated. Jill Erickson
 
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JillEE

Dear Steve, I tried this and now there is a bigger mess. The page on our live web page that I had been working on disappeared, AND when I try to send pages now I get a message that says "The Local and Remote webs cannot be the same location. Please enter a unique location." I've never gotten this message before, so now what do I do?? Jil

----- JillEE wrote: ----

Dear Steve, I'll give it a try. I saw you mentioned that to someone else and it didn't work, but anything is worth a try. I just tried editing in frontpage from a live web page and saving, and that seemed to work. Although why one method would work and the other not work, I don't know. Thanks for your advice. I'll let you know if it works. Jill
 
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Steve Easton

Ok I'm a little confused here??

If you're on the live site, where are you trying to "send" the page. When you
send, are you publishing to http://domainname.com

Also, what do you see when you look at the site in Folder View.


Before anything else happens, you may want to run Detect and Repair from the
Help drop down menu.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

JillEE said:
Dear Steve, I tried this and now there is a bigger mess. The page on our live
Click to expand...
web page that I had been working on disappeared, AND when I try to send pages
now I get a message that says "The Local and Remote webs cannot be the same
location. Please enter a unique location." I've never gotten this message
before, so now what do I do?? Jill
----- JillEE wrote: -----

Dear Steve, I'll give it a try. I saw you mentioned that to someone else
Click to expand...
and it didn't work, but anything is worth a try. I just tried editing in
frontpage from a live web page and saving, and that seemed to work. Although why
one method would work and the other not work, I don't know. Thanks for your
advice. I'll let you know if it works. Jill
 
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JillEE

Well, the good news is that the problem with sending web pages is over, I wasn't paying attention when I went to send. The original problem remains. The page looks great in design, but it somehow loses all the code when the page gets saved in order to preview it in a web browser, except for the bottom shared border. A very frustrating afternoon indeed. Jill
 
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Stefan B Rusynko

Validate you page for missing / broken tags

Shared borders and Include Pages are design time tools w/ the content (inside the <BODY> tags) of the Shared Border or Include page
"embedded" or included as html in your pages when you save any of the file(s) using them (or save the borders / include pages
themselves)
- you actually don't need them in a live web (unless you are going to edit the site online in FP)

FP converts your page(s) to a series of tables to include the Shared borders, (which are really just a special case of Include
pages)
But FP can not build those tables if either your shared border page content or main page content has illegal html or broken tag
pairs
- usually due to missing </body></html> tags, or unmatched table / cell tags (unclosed table / cell tags), or some other unclosed
html block element

If you can see them using File Preview in Browser they will publish in as part of your pages

If you can't see them using File Preview in Browser, it's because FP can not build the included content tables, so you need to
validate and correct your broken html






| Well, the good news is that the problem with sending web pages is over, I wasn't paying attention when I went to send. The
original problem remains. The page looks great in design, but it somehow loses all the code when the page gets saved in order to
preview it in a web browser, except for the bottom shared border. A very frustrating afternoon indeed. Jill
 
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