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akston Posts: 117 From: Lafayette, Indiana, USA Status: offline	One Broken Hyperlink Caused Missing Pages - 3/17/2009 8:17:24 I had one internal hyperlink broken. What I did was go to Edit>Find and Replace. All pages. The link was "Art Review". Found it in all pages. Replaced it with art_review2.htm which is the correct page. Now it shows my links as: Portraits \| Landscapes \| Still Lifes \| Narrative Animals \| Drawings \| Pastels \| Sketch Book Biography \| Portraits \| Landscapes \| Still Lifes \| Narrative \| Animals \| Drawings \| Pastels \| art_review2.htm \| Contact \| Links This is obviously wrong. Worse, it's caused some entire pages, when I click on the "Next" link to have disappeared entirely--nothing but a blank page. For example when I click on the link from Narrative to narrative2.htm I get a blank page. In folder list if I click the page icon to narrative2.htm it comes up a blank page. I've gone back to Find and replace. Typed in art_review2.htm. All pages. Now there's a list of pages with red dots below Status. This is all I can tell you. It seems like an enormous task to repair all this. Is it possible to correct at all? If so, how? I do have the site published via FTP so these missing pages should be able to transfer back intact locally. Then I suppose I can start over. So then the question is how to change that art_review2.htm to Art Review and link it to the appropriate page. I guess I can't use Find and Replace since I only have the above links on the main pages, not the pages that show the enlarged images. My site is at: The Art of Robert Tracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Robert < Message edited by akston -- 3/17/2009 8:49:37 >


jaybee Posts: 14320 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: One Broken Hyperlink Caused Missing Pages - 3/17/2009 12:13:56 It's all working fine for me. I went from Narrative to Narrative1 and then Narrative2. If this issue is only on your machine, two things you can do. Publish the site back down from the host to your machine. Or try recalculating Hyperlinks. One thing to remember for the future, before doing ANY replace all, take a backup copy of the site first. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to akston)


akston Posts: 117 From: Lafayette, Indiana, USA Status: offline	RE: One Broken Hyperlink Caused Missing Pages - 3/17/2009 14:18:21 Thank you. The problem is on the links at the bottom of each main page. Clicking the link Art Review takes you to a blank page. But I suspect that by publishing back down to my machine I can fix that manually, page by page. I'm not going to try replace all on this site. I may set up a test site and try that feature out. "If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is". Indeed. (in reply to jaybee)


jaybee Posts: 14320 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: One Broken Hyperlink Caused Missing Pages - 3/18/2009 6:50:39 LOL, lesson learned. Replace all is dangerous. Replace all in all files is beyond lunacy. The problem being, as you have discovered, there's always something in the site somewhere that uses exactly the same term as you're replacing that you've completely missed. The replace replaces it, causes chaos and then you have to trawl through the code trying to find it. I only ever use replace all in all files if I'm replacing an entire line, a meta tag for example, so I'm replacing via the code tab, not some text on the view page which may well have been shoved into the HTML somewhere by the WYSIWYG. Now as to the problem with your links at the bottom of the page. The link goes to a page called art_review.htm which is blank. The page is actually at art_review2.htm _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to akston)


akston Posts: 117 From: Lafayette, Indiana, USA Status: offline	RE: One Broken Hyperlink Caused Missing Pages - 3/18/2009 7:04:41 Lunacy. Indeed. I can't claim lucidity over this matter. It's why I came here for it. And found it in you. And thank you for it again. I shall never touch Replace all in all files again. Scares me. (in reply to jaybee)


jaybee Posts: 14320 Joined: 10/7/2003 From: Berkshire, UK Status: offline	RE: One Broken Hyperlink Caused Missing Pages - 3/18/2009 8:29:55 LOL, most people would disagree with you. they're convinced I'm a certified fully paid up member of the Lunacy Brigade. _____________________________ If it ain't broke..... fix it until it is. GAWDS Now where did I put that Doctype? (in reply to akston)