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kevincohr -> Transferring my Frontpage site from XP to Vista (4/4/2009 6:49:42)

I have a working Frontpage site, which I have maintained on my laptop under XP.

However, I just bought a new laptop which runs Vista and does not have Frontpage installed (as I understand it is no longer supported by MS).

Is there a way I can install Frontpage on Vista? (I don't have access to my original Frontpage disk.)

(Later on, I may consider upgrading to another web package, but I need to get this working asap, as I have minor edits to do on a constant basis.)

Thanks,

Kevin



coreybryant -> RE: Transferring my Frontpage site from XP to Vista (4/4/2009 9:44:37)

From reading pasts posts, people have had some issues running FrontPage on Vista. Of course, then the other issue / concern would be the licensing terms since chances are you purchased the license from Microsoft to have FrontPage run on one machine. If you are no longer running FP on the old machine, then licensing should not pose a problem.

Consider downloading / installing the trial version of Expression Web. It will allow you to publish via http to help maintain your FrontPage Server Extensions.



kevincohr -> RE: Transferring my Frontpage site from XP to Vista (4/4/2009 11:06:15)

Many thanks for the reply ... is there any conversion of my Frontpage website required or does Expression allow me to import and edit as is?

KEvin



coreybryant -> RE: Transferring my Frontpage site from XP to Vista (4/4/2009 11:54:33)

As is.... If the website is small enough, I would recommend publishing from remote server to local. This way, it will help you maintain any of the FrontPage webbots.

I have actually been toying with the import feature (of Expression Web) in the past few weeks since I was redoing a lot of larger websites. I was hoping that this import would help Expression Web recognize the files are the same and would not need to re-publish them. However, this did not work (but I was using Expression Web and relying on Expression Web as an FTP client which is a big mistake - Microsoft has yet to get a fully functional FTP client built into their WYSIWYG editor for over 10 years now). It might with FrontPage & http though.

You can copy the files over from the old computer to the new computer - open the site on the new computer & go to Tools - Recalculate Hyperlinks to fix the hidden meta information that FrontPage relies on (usually)



d a v e -> RE: Transferring my Frontpage site from XP to Vista (4/4/2009 12:45:40)

corey - couldn't you just download from the remote site to local site via ftp (a third party one such as filezilla) - would that save having to recalculate hyperlinks??



coreybryant -> RE: Transferring my Frontpage site from XP to Vista (4/5/2009 18:10:57)

Well the FTP would transfer the _vti_cnf files / folders as is, and FrontPage might throw out some errors. I know that if you transfer a FrontPage website via FTP from an older server to a new server, the FPSE won't work properly on the new site & will cause a lot of headaches.

You could probably transfer via FTP with FrontPage / Expression Web, if you have a lot of patience since FrontPage / Expression Web has a horrific FTP client



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