index files - images (FrontPage 2002)

A

Allen

Upon trying to publish updates recently, I get noticed that my destination
website (server) has index_files/images which my editing website doesn't (or
no longer does). In other words, it's as if my FP editor is losing files. I
can't see any visual differences however. When asked whether I want to delete
those on the server, I've been opting for 'no' because I don't know if I
might be deleting necessary files. I suspect it has something to do with
'thumbs.db' but it doesn't say. This has never happened before (in 3 years).
I now have 16 images (under index_files/images) on the server which I don't
on my editor although the actual folders (publishable) are identical to each
other. Is there a FP mechanism that might automatically delete
index_files/images? The unused ones perhaps?
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

If you're sure you don't need the ones on the destination web then let FP
delete them. It's not losing files, what it's telling you is that you've
deleted something on one web and not the other...if you work on the local
web and you delete a file and you go to publish and it tells you that that
file exists on the destination web and not on the current web (in this case
the local) do you want to delete the file on the destination?...usually yes.
 
A

Allen

Thank you for your answer but it is like I'm 'losing' files because I have
not deleted any images on my local web in weeks. Yet, only in the past few
days a difference occurred in the number of images between the destination
web and my local web. In checking, the destination web now lists 15
index_files/images whereas my local web only lists five. While deleting an
image and updating the destination web is nothing new to me, but having files
existing on the destination web which my local web doesn't have... is new.
Unless there was a glitch, I can't see any possible way the destination web
could have MORE files. Unless, of course, my local web is automatically
deleting them (but, in the last 3 years, I haven't seen FrontPage do that
before)
 
R

Rob Giordano \(Crash\)

The easiest way to tell is do a full publish from whichever web is correct
to whichever web is incorrect.
 
S

Stefan B Rusynko

File created in a folder like index_files/images are clusters files associated w/ your index.htm page which FP hides (they are
created from Word/Shape Art or depending on your setting PC from files w/ images created from Word or Excel or PPT)




| Thank you for your answer but it is like I'm 'losing' files because I have
| not deleted any images on my local web in weeks. Yet, only in the past few
| days a difference occurred in the number of images between the destination
| web and my local web. In checking, the destination web now lists 15
| index_files/images whereas my local web only lists five. While deleting an
| image and updating the destination web is nothing new to me, but having files
| existing on the destination web which my local web doesn't have... is new.
| Unless there was a glitch, I can't see any possible way the destination web
| could have MORE files. Unless, of course, my local web is automatically
| deleting them (but, in the last 3 years, I haven't seen FrontPage do that
| before)
|
| "Rob Giordano (Crash)" wrote:
|
| > If you're sure you don't need the ones on the destination web then let FP
| > delete them. It's not losing files, what it's telling you is that you've
| > deleted something on one web and not the other...if you work on the local
| > web and you delete a file and you go to publish and it tells you that that
| > file exists on the destination web and not on the current web (in this case
| > the local) do you want to delete the file on the destination?...usually yes.
| >
| >
| > | > > Upon trying to publish updates recently, I get noticed that my destination
| > > website (server) has index_files/images which my editing website doesn't
| > > (or
| > > no longer does). In other words, it's as if my FP editor is losing files.
| > > I
| > > can't see any visual differences however. When asked whether I want to
| > > delete
| > > those on the server, I've been opting for 'no' because I don't know if I
| > > might be deleting necessary files. I suspect it has something to do with
| > > 'thumbs.db' but it doesn't say. This has never happened before (in 3
| > > years).
| > > I now have 16 images (under index_files/images) on the server which I
| > > don't
| > > on my editor although the actual folders (publishable) are identical to
| > > each
| > > other. Is there a FP mechanism that might automatically delete
| > > index_files/images? The unused ones perhaps?
| >
| >
| >
 
A

Allen

I would have already done that if I could find any differences but, after
hours of comparing the webpages of both the destination web and local web,
their images and directory (root) folders, I could find no differences at
all. Still, it seems, one must be right and the other wrong (for whatever
reason). The unknown is what makes me hesitate deleting the 'excess' files. I
seems almost related to how 'thumbs.db' once irritated me but hasn't for
almost a year. Yes, I learned just to ignore thumbs.db and delete those
files. I have another destination web on my own computer to serve as a backup
which still has these additional files so I can always use it to replentish
my editor (local) web. Hummm... I wonder if my FrontPage 2002 was somehow
automatically updated which eliminated the thumbs.db craziness and now it is
doing this? I'd rather have the stupid thumbs.
 
A

Allen

Thank you... to whatever degree they are 'associated', in the past 3 years
my local web has never deleted them automatically before (or perhaps it was
an unintentional glitch). No sweat tho, I have a backup local web which still
has these 'excess' files so I guess I'll just wait a few weeks to see if any
differences show up.
 
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