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Patricia Lambuth

I'm having trouble getting my thread to post. I finally got smart and saved in a word doc. Here it is

I am using FP2000 and am having trouble saving a page. I've been using this page but had to make some minor modifications. When I tried to save the page I received the message:

"An error occurred accessing your FrontPage web files. Authors - if authoring against a web server, please contact the webmaster for this server's site. WebMasters - please see the server's system log for more details."

I had the file on the server and moved it to my hard drive to see if that would make a difference. I've tried to save it to a different file name and got the same message. I've tried cutting and pasting in pieces to a different page and that worked for a while. I backed out the information that caused the error and tried typing it in and it still failed to save. My file is not large. Only about 1.2 mb.

I appreciate any help you can give.
 
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Mr B

What kind of file is it that's 1.2 megs? That can't be an HTML file since HTML is just text.
 
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Patricia Lambuth

It is an HTML file. We have and index of about 500 - 600 patent cases in a table with banners intermittently to identify columns. There is also a small .gif and some hover buttons. I am linking to each of the cases pages and to published patents

I'm breaking the file into 2 files which will link to each other but it would be nice to be able to have everything in 1 file

I know there are better ways of doing this but 1) I don't know web authoring very well and 2) this web was set up this way before I got to it (by someone who knows even less than I do)

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----- Mr B wrote: ----

What kind of file is it that's 1.2 megs? That can't be an HTML file since HTML is just text.
 
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Stefan B Rusynko

There are 3 limits you are hitting
1) FP has a limit of ~ 32000 lines of html code (that's why you can't save the page)
2) FP publishing of files over 1 MB to a server can often fail
3) IMHO - Users will never wait for a 1/.2 MB HTML page to open or attempt to read it

Look at your content and consider breaking it up into LOTS of pages by some sort of category or subject subheadings and then create
an index page to the separate pages (say a 1 line link to each of the 500 cases as a page / case)
- non broadband user probably can't "tolerate" more than ~ 100KB / page
- broadband users may "tolerate" up to 500KB/page



| It is an HTML file. We have and index of about 500 - 600 patent cases in a table with banners intermittently to identify columns.
There is also a small .gif and some hover buttons. I am linking to each of the cases pages and to published patents.
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| I'm breaking the file into 2 files which will link to each other but it would be nice to be able to have everything in 1 file.
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| I know there are better ways of doing this but 1) I don't know web authoring very well and 2) this web was set up this way before
I got to it (by someone who knows even less than I do).
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| Pat
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| ----- Mr B wrote: -----
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| What kind of file is it that's 1.2 megs? That can't be an HTML file since HTML is just text.
 
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