Expression® Web Design
New Computer with FrontPage
Saturday, December 13, 2008
More and more users are buying a new computer. Unfortunately there are some hassles that come with this purchase - like moving your data over from your old system to the new system. If you copied the FrontPage website from one computer to another, you might see a few problems, like FrontPage is not able to open the website or it does not recognize it as a website.
One
of the ways to get around this is by creating a new website in FrontPage.
Once this is done, delete the index.htm page (or any page that it might create).
Now locate your "old" website and highlight all the files / folders (CNTL-A).
Then copy or CNTL-C. Go back into FrontPage and right click on the folder
where it says the location of your "new" website. When you right click on
that folder, one of the choices should be Paste as a choice. Choose this and
FrontPage will copy (import) your files and folders to the website. You might get an error message about no files to import, choose OK - this is just the meta data that FrontPage uses to help maintain the website. FrontPage will re-create this data for you on the new website. When you are finished "importing" the website, go to Tools - Recalculate Hyperlinks in FrontPage.
When you are ready to publish, the time stamps might be incorrect unfortunately and FrontPage might need to overwrite some or all the files on the server.
You can also watch a video tutorial of creating the website and copying the files to your new FrontPage website.
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