Disappearing code

[jfgonzalez]

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the correct forum, but since I do all of my development in Dreamweaver MX I figured this is the appropriate place, despite the fact that my problem may involve a Front Page client.

I design and maintain both a company intranet and internet websites. Yesterday a strange thing happened with the intranet sites, which were originally created seven or eight years ago with a FrontPage client. When I came on board a year and a half ago, I insisted on using Dreamweaver as my developing tool after having been introduced to it some years before, and I have since then worked on existing pages and created new ones using Dreamweaver. Front Page is still on my machine, primarily for the purpose of using Extensions to publish our one Internet site (the ISP that hosts it insists we use FrontPage extensions to publish, otherwise I wouldn't have it).

What happened yesterday is that around 3:00 pm all the code in the left table on my intranet web pages disappeared. The Intranet sites are pretty consistent, with a table on the left hand side displaying links to other pages on the intranet. This code disappeared, with all files changed yesterday. I'm the only one with access to the files and I was working on something else at this time. When I checked the activity log in NT I saw that Front Page Extensions ran at that same precise time, something I'm still trying to investigate why.

I was able to restore the intranet files from last nights tape backup, but I'd like to not have this happen again. I've heard that FrontPage puts a lot of unnecessary code on the pages it creates, but does it cause that much of an interference with other web developing clients like Dreamweaver? This is the first time I've seen something like this happen, and frankly I'm perplexed.

Thanks,

J. F. Gonzalez

 

[lebisol]

not much help but:
1st thing I do is remove the FrontPage extentions.....they are nothing but the magnet for "IIS haters"
sounds like you have some ftp/upload scheduled ....u should see it in application logs or in your scheduler or in your services...
All the best!

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[jfgonzalez]

That's something I'd love to do, but unfortunately the ISP that hosts one of our corporate internet sites requires we use Front Page Extensions to publish the site. This is the only reason why I'm running FP on my PC. All my development work is in Dreamweaver. I don't have anything scheduled to run FP Extensions either, which is why I was wondering if it has a tendency to sniff things out on its own.

I am running IIS on the intranet server. However, I do all my development on my desktop PC, working on all the intranet and internet files on a shared drive. Since FP is installed on my machine, it's possible the files were changed because the intranet folder is one of my network drives. That's the only thing I can think of.

 

[lebisol]

yes very possible...of the mapping of the letter changes "it" considers the root of the site to be moved.But this can be adjusted (frommDW perspective in the Site Definition; from ISS perspetive "virtual folders&quot

Also, talk to your ISP they might have done some backup-restore with a most current time stamp...which would make your dev PC think that the files on the Production Server were newer than the one u have locally..hence the "update-download" would run and download old files over your local-newer ones.....
perhaps?! I don't know...weas not there
All the best!

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