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Joe Hussar -> File delete prompt when publishing (9/6/2008 13:23:48)
Hello ................ I've been publishing with FP for 6 years........ just 2 days ago, during publishing FP began asking if I want to delete (certain) files that are in my shopping cart folder, because they are not also on my local computer (from which I publish updates). I believe these files are generated and used for purposes of processing customer orders in my shopping cart folder, they are generated dynamically, and I can't understand why FP thinks they should be deleted - I don't know why FP would even look at them (again, this has never happened before) These files have nothing to do with the publishing of the web site .......... the files are always changing because people place orders all the time. Here is an example of the "error" message: 'cgi_bin/cart/carts/118.100.81.56Mozilla4.0compatibleMSIE6.0WindowsNT exists on the destination server but does not exist in the current Web site. Would you like Front Page to remove it from http://www.candylandcrafts.com'? (there are literally hundreds of these file "snippets" generated in the live web site every day. The files on my local computer in the cgi_bin/cart/carts folder will never match the web site. In fact, there aren't any such files in the local web at all. How can I get Front Page to stop asking to remove these files? Any guidance is really appreciated.

treetopsranch -> RE: File delete prompt when publishing (9/6/2008 16:33:49)
quote: How can I get Front Page to stop asking to remove these files? Racking my brain here to try to remember a fix for that but it escapes me for the time being. I think I remember creating a different folder by FTP on the server for stuff that wasn't on my local files but not sure if that will work for you. Anyway click "No to all" when it asks you if you want to delete those files and see if it remembers that for the next publish update. The only other recourse is to FTP and upload just the files that you want uploaded but that will honk up extension dependent stuff you know so be careful with that. You can ftp php files without messing the extensions. I use filezilla for that.

Joe Hussar -> RE: File delete prompt when publishing (9/6/2008 17:14:13)
Hi...... yes I certainly can say "No" (if I forget, or slip, there goes my shopping cart - ugh), but if there are files that are, in fact, not needed (say an image no longer linked), I don't even have the option of being selective - when FP tells you there are files to (possibly) delete, it's all of them or none of them. And unfortunately, even though FP hasn't done what it's doing now in 6 years, now it remembers every time.................. If there was a way to tell FP not to publish an entire folder I think that would fix the problem, because then it would ignore the folder everytime.... but I only know how to tell it to "not publish" a specific file. Is there possibly a way to not publish (mark as such) a whole folder??

treetopsranch -> RE: File delete prompt when publishing (9/6/2008 22:09:50)
quote: Is there possibly a way to not publish (mark as such) a whole folder?? No, but you can go into that folder and mark the files that you don't want published. If it is all of them, use CTRL A to highlight them. Then right mouse and click "Don't Publish"

Joe Hussar -> RE: File delete prompt when publishing (9/7/2008 6:25:35)
Hi...... Yes that makes good sense....... Of course that still won't help when FP finds files (in that same "folder" we're talking about) on the server (which I don't have) & asks me if I want to delete them. FP can't live with it or without it [8\|] Thaks again.

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