Recovering iWeb Page

I do not go very often to my website which I designed and published from iWeb earlier this year. Until now when I have had to make minor tweaks, I've just opened iWeb and the site I designed appeared automatically. However, now it doesn't - all that appears is the page for starting a new site. iWeb's menus do not have any "Open" or "Recent File" functions and I cannot find a trace of the site stored on my computer or my external hard drive. I am wondering whether there is a way to import my published site back into iWeb and thereby be able once again work with it. Or is there some strange place that I may not have looked where the files and resources are likely to be stored?

Do you have a file titled Domain.sites that's located in your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder? If you find one there double click on it to open it in iWeb. See what happens. If there's no .sites file in that folder download and run Find Any File to search for "Domain.sites" on your hard drive. FAF can search areas that Spotlight can't.
If you don't have that file or a backup copy of it that contains your site you'll have to start over from scratch.
Chapter 2.3 on the iWeb FAQ.org site has tips on using some of the existing files, image, audio, video, etc., from the published site in the recreation of the site.
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Code in a domain file - really? That is not possible because the domain.sites file does not contain any html or css code at all - the domain file is your iWeb data file and you won't see any code until you publish your website.
If you can see html code, then you have the wrong file and it is a published version of your site which iWeb can do nothing with - iWeb has no import facility so cannot open any html files.
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Ok, here´s my case.
Last Sunday my MacBook died. Trust me. It died. No one could save the information and the hard drive had to be formatted. And there was the Murphy´s Law factor. I was preparing my files to back up and then, CRASH! After 3 days at a specialized service center it had to be formatted, no information could be saved and when I turned my MacBook on and installed the system, again, it was like the first time I ever used it, like it was just out of the box. No applications, no files, no photos, no music, nothing.
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Greetings from Mexico City.

Actually my boss had that idea. There´s a folder in my iDisk named iWeb and I had noticed before that all my webpage´s files were there. Every time you click publish in iWeb, all your files are uploaded to that folder.
As I said before. With Dreamweaver, if you reinstall you can set up again all your access and you can recover your files via FTP and keep working with them. If I downloaded the files contained in my iWeb folder in my iDisk, and put them in my iWeb library, would that work? Would it be the same as the example I´m saying? Could I work using my existing webpage files?
I´m at work now and there´s no iWeb in this computer so I have no idea if it´d work fine. Any ideas?
I mean, there has to be a way.
I´ll give it a try at home as soon as I can and I´ll keep you all informed.
Thanx everybody!

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Please pardon the reply delay--a big project deadline had to be met. Now back to this work:
Yes, the text in the oval object had a drop shadow (the oval object itself did not). I removed the drop shadow from the text, but the image file icon stayed in the right corner of the oval object. I deleted the text and then the image file icon disappeared. But as soon as I typed text again inside the oval object (not even pasting the previous text) the image file icon appeared again. I deleted the oval object entirely and simply typed the text inside the main text box itself. The image file icon that was attached to that oval object is gone (along with the oval object).
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Hello,
and welcome the Apple iWeb Discussion Forum.
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