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Nicole
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Now for something totally bizarre . . . - 8/22/2007 0:12:33
A few weeks ago I created some web templates for a client to add her own content in using FrontPage 2003.
They are just your ordinary everyday web templates, they don't obviously have any FP web components or anything. My client went away and added her content and phoned to ask that she come over and show me her work before it was published to the web.
One of the first things I noticed, as she did when she was adding her content, was that FrontPage (presumably) was creating a folder for each page within her site. The image link paths thus didn't work, so I changed a link path or two to make the images show and then went to Windows Explorer to delete the unnecessary folders (that only contained the images used on each page).
But . . . when deleting each unnecessary folder to the recycle bin, it was also taking with it the corresponding html page and dumping it in the recycle bin also.
So I copied her work to a disk and transferred it to my computer and attempted to delete these unnecessary folders, but the same thing happened - it took the corresponding html page to the recycle bin with it.
Looking at the code of each page, a line of code has been added to the <head> information similar to this for each page.
<link rel="File-List" href="about-us_files/filelist.xml">
. . . and there is a lot of other rubbish code within each page.
My client had her content (and images) in a word document and was running the text through Notepad before adding it to her templates, but with the images she was copying and pasting from the word document.
I understand that copying and pasting like that will add all the Microsoft Proprietary code, but once I deleted it all, and ALL references to it in any way shape or form, and then tried to delete the unnecessary folders, it still took the html file with the unnecessary folder to the recycle bin.
My client has agreed to me cleaning up the code and add her new content in, but I'm concerned that there might be something within FrontPage 2003 that is creating these unnecessary folders and this will again be an issue when my client makes a change to her site in the future.
Can anyone please let me know if there is a setting in FrontPage that automatically makes a folder for each page within a site? If so, how can we turn this function off? Using Windows Explorer these folders only contain the images used on that page, but the html file is located in the root, i.e. it isn't inside the unnecessary folder.
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jeepless
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Joined: 12/20/2003
From: Smack in the middle of USA
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RE: Now for something totally bizarre . . . - 8/22/2007 8:39:44
While I can't speak to FrontPage and why it's creating the extra folders, I may have a solution to keep Windows Explorer from deleting the HTML pages along with the extra folders. In Windows XP (and possibly Vista) both the HTML file and its related folder are tied or managed together by default. You'll need to change this option in Windows to manage the two items separately.
In your Windows Control Panel, select Folder Options. On its View tab under the "Managing pairs of Web pages and folders" option, select the "Show both parts and manage them individually" setting. This should allow you to delete one of these items but leave the other untouched.
This only applies to situations when you're using Windows Explorer to delete files or folders. FrontPage treats individual entities as separate elements when deleting, although FrontPage doesn't use the Recycle Bin as Windows Explorer does.
Hope that helps.
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