Archiving old iWeb projects

Can I save old iWeb projects to iCloud? If so, how do I do that? Or must I save them to a new web host ? Thanks.

No. To archive your websites make copies of your Domain.sites file that resides in your Users/Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder. That's the file/package that iWeb uses to create and publish your website. Keep copies of it to preserve the website at the date the copy was made.
If you're running Lion read the following:
In Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
To open your domain file in Lion or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
You can download an already compiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
Just launch the application, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.
OT

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Import old iWeb project

iWeb no longer shows my web site. All the files that made up my web site are on my iDisk. Is there a way to have iWeb import my old site or some how get the files into the program from my iDisk?
Thanks

I'm afraid if you did not have the "domain" file backed up and it's gone for some reason your out of luck.
If you have it in another location than username/library/application support/iweb double click on it or move it back

Reload iWeb project after reinstall

I reinstalled my OS, as I do frequently to optimize computer performance. However when I now try to continue working on my iWeb project I'm stuck. I've made backups of my website folder but I can't get it to reload in iweb.
Is there any way to get my old project back on track by using my backup:ed files?
Otherwise this means that EVERY time I reinstall my OS I have to rebuild my site from the top. This seems ridiculous! I have to move everything I have to Dreamweaver and STOP using iWeb, It's no point if you lose your work when you reinstall your system. Come on apple, you can do better than this, it's ridiculous.
Please please help me if you know a way around.
/Erik

Hello Erik,
You do not need to reinstall the OS to optimize performance !
In fact : do not do this !
Every Mac comes standard with 3 scripts to optimize your machine.
All you have to do is run them !
If you do not feel comfortable to run them yourself, there are many tools that will do the trick for you. Ex. OnyX (freeware, search on www.versiontracker.com)
If you've done an install as you did so many times before, all your files should be as they were.
If you did an install with "erase old install", then you better have a back-up on an external disk...
Using Dreamweaver over iWeb will make no difference here, they'll both be gone
Now, let's hope you have a back-up on an external disk (or an other uninfected partition on your internal drive) :
iWeb saves everything in the file "Domain.sites2" on your disk.
The default location is : /Users/yourusername/Library/Application Support/iWeb/
Restore the file Domain.sites2 from your Back-Up and you're back in business.
Kind regards,
Leo
PS: just out of curiosity, where did you get the idea to reinstall the OS to improve performance ?
If you like to experiment why don't you clone your internal HD to an external HD and then boot with the external HD to experiment and boot with the internal HD for serious work?
The tool to select the boot disk is installed on every Mac : System Preferences / System / Startup Disk
There are some freeware tools to clone your internal disk to an external disk.
Do a search on versiontracker or a similar site.
Ex.: Carbon Copy Cloner will do the trick.

How can I save an iWeb project as a single file so that I can easily upload it?

I am trying to upload an iWeb project that I made to space on our campus server, but I need to rename it index.html. Is there any way to save the project as one file that I can name index.html and then upload it to our organization's space?
Thanks!

A site iWeb publishes is not a single file but a folder with content. The folder contains a lot of files.
And iWeb also creates an index.html file that redirects to the first webpage in your site.
So publish to a folder and then examine the content of the folder with the sitename.
If you mean by project, the domain file iWeb uses to store its assets, then simply make it an archive. There'se no need the rename it index.html, first of all because it's not a webpage. The extension "zip" is enough.

Trouble opening up old iDVD projects after upgrading

Forgive me if this has been discussed but I took a quick look through the messages and I didn't find what I needed.
I have some old iDVD projects that do not open under iDVD 6.01 (yes, I have the update.) It is as if my old themes (specifically "Baby Blue") have been erased. Is there some way to download them from the Apple site?
Also, if I may, I want to pick a nit about iDVD. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it is wrong for the program to force you to use a pre-defined theme, even if it is customizable to the point of non-recognizition. If you somehow loose the old template or move the file to a new machine with no old templates, you're screwed unless you want to go through all the work of redoing your project.
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iMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Many people have had troubles with older projects opening in iDVD 6...including my one left-over project that was finished.
This is one reason you should finish a project, create a disk image, save the disk image, before "upgrading."
If you somehow loose the old template or move the file to a new machine with no old templates, you're screwed unless you want to go through all the work of redoing your project.
If you creat an Archive of the project, it should contain everything you need.

P6 archiving old data

Hi,
Does any one have any experience of archiving old data to a read only database? Currently using SQL2000 and P6. Interested to know about problems encounted and any data integrity problems. Thanks

We suffer the same issue with archiving. One of our DBs is roughly 50GB in size and the time to restore it from backup alone is +6 hours , which does not include the time to pull tapes from off site. Our standard IS backup retention policy is only 6 months so what I end up with is literally hundreds of archive copies of a 20K+ activity schedule living in the production database (hence it's large size).
What we have done to try and contain the growth is every 6 months an Admin sends out an email to all users with a list of archive projects questioning which ones are still needed. Our end users then mark the archives for deletion or export. If deletion is selected the schedule is simply purged from the database. Export means the archive project is dumped to XER and burned to disc. The hope is that should we ever need to review an old archive copy that we can import it into a recent copy of the production DB. Luckily the need to bring one of these back has yet to occur.
Note: by archive project I am generally referring to either a baseline or what-if copy of a main schedule.

How can i transfer iWeb projects to a different computer?

This may be a simple question, but does anyone know how I can transfer an iWeb project from one computer to another, so that I can work on the site from a different computer than the one that created it?

The same way you transfer all your other documents.
~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/

IWeb projects from two computers. How do I combine onto one machine.

Hi,
I have been working on five sites in total. Three of them were satrted on my iMac G5 and recently I have just started two more but on my new MacBookPro.
They are all published, but I now want to combine all of the projects onto my MacBookPro. After some research it seems that iWeb saves one file called Domain in the iWeb folder. I can't have two Domian files in the same folder (one replaces the other)
Question is, how do I combine all of my iWeb projects together into one Domain file?
Any help appreciated.
Keith

I was wondering the same thing, for the same
reason...it sounds as if the separate domain files
must be maintained separately [maybe in separately
named folders in AppSupport/iWeb? and then just
switch between the separate folders to be able to
edit on one machine....but then be careful when you
do an Announce, because it'll only send
http://web.mac.com/nameofuser to the people and it
might open up Site #2 and not the one you sent,
right??
This is the reason there are applications like iWebSites (http://mistergregg.com/cocoadrillosoftware/) that help you to switch in and out different domain files. With multiple sites, you must specify the longer URL in order to get people to the specific site. I don't think the Announce email function is really up to snuff in this regard.
Any easy way to cure this issue of being able to
easily announce Site 2 to some and Site 3 to others?
without visiting sites and sending the LONG link????
that's inelegant.
See my post to you about subdomain forwarding in this thread...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=619363&tstart=0

Can you archive old calendar items in Entourage so you don't run out of space on your Blackberry?

Hi everyone,
I have a Sprint Pearl 8130 and I am syncing with PocketMac to Entourage 2004 on an iBook G4 running OS 10.3.
Most of my syncing issues are minor (for some reason, in contacts, work and home email addresses switch fields, but I can live with that) and I don't have too many complaints about PocketMac for now....
My question is - Does anyone know how to archive old calendar items so that my Blackberry doesn't run out of space? I have calendar items going back to the beginning of 2008. I don't need past calendar items on my Blackberry, except for reoccurring items, like birthdays and such, and maybe a month's worth of old appointments just for reference. My Blackberry has run out of space a couple of times and when it deletes the appointments from my Blackberry, syncing wants to either delete from the Mac or restore to the Blackberry. I know you can do this with a Palm and their Palm software, since I used to have one and I was able to archive items older than a week. Then you would be able to access them in a separate archive profile.
I have searched everywhere and the closest thing I can find is to purchase Missing Sync and set to match my sync date range. https://support.markspace.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=327. But that doesn't really solve my issue of running out of space on my Blackberry. The other thing that I could think of is to export the calendar items into a .rge file, then delete the calendar items from there, sync, and have PocketMac remove items from my Blackberry, but it would be a pain to easily access old calendar items.
I appreciate any thoughts, ideas and especially solutions!

I have the exact opposite issue you mentioned
my client wants his archived calender items to be synched to his 8830 world wide ed.
he is running RIM software (DesktopManager) v 6.4
BES 2007
current issue is that his archived old calendars are not synchronizing to his handheld; we tried to force his PC to synch those items manually through cable, which didn't help, since our BES policy force waireless synch policy to the device and wireless synch never can see the archived items files
I think if you can set the option on your device so it turns on the calendar wireless synch, and also make sure MAC does not select archive to synch
Calendar > Options > General settings or /Wireless synch set to ON;
if you running BES set Calendar Wireless synch off

How do I find the 'name' of a photo I've used in iWeb project?

I've built an iWeb project. I've used a certain photo as a background. I've got three versions of that photo, almost identical, in my 'photos' folder. I want to find out which was the exact one used. Is there a way IN iWeb, while working on a project, to get the names of the various elements being used, specifically the photos?
All ears,
Ben

In iMovie 9, look in your iMovie Events and iMovie Projects folders.
In iMovie 10, look in your .imovielibrary package (right click & select "Show package contents")
The default location of these is in your Users / ,user name> / Movies folder.
Geoff.

How to decompile an old director project?

how can I decompile an old director project?

Thank you for the reply...
The disc was created in April 2004 with probably the latest version of Director at that time. We created the CD for one of our clients that now wants to make changes...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Import previous iweb site from the internet? No old iweb files

My mac crashed and I lost all the information I had stored in it, including the iweb files of the blog I created using Iweb. Is there a way to import my iweb blog into a new Iweb in the mac I purchased? The iweb site I created is still up, so I am wondering if I can import the entries from my old iweb blog into my new mac/iweb using RSS or some other mechanism to capture the text and pictures in my old iweb blog and transfer them to my new mac. I also use idisk, so when I log in to mobile me I see links to my old iweb blog under if I click on Idisk and then go to "site". Any ideas about how I can import my old iweb blog from the internet?
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Jorge ~ Welcome to the Support Communities. Apple says:
"iWeb stores everything in a Domain file, normally located in the ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder (although it can be moved). If you no longer have this file, you can view your currently published pages and manually recreate them within iWeb, but there is no way to import published pages back into iWeb. You can manually back up the Domain file, or use Backup to back it up.” (Source)
...If you don't have a backup of your Domain file (e.g. via Time Machine), paragraph 2.3 of this FAQ page gives some tips on how to use published files, graphics, photos, etc., to help rebuild the site from scratch:
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Backup_retrieve.html

Photo management and iWeb projects

I'm not in direct contact with the project but an individual has told me that the photos that are searching for that are contained in an iWeb project are not located in iPhoto. We are looking for the photos that wound up in someone's iWeb project.
What happens upon the import of photos into iWeb:
Is a copy made of the original at a reduced resolution? Where would these be located?
Can any of these imbedded images be exported out to a determined location?
Is there a way to trace where an image came from?

Everything you add to a iWeb project is saved in the domain.sites2 file here:
~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/
where ~ is your Home Directory.
Right-click the domain file and choose *Show package content* from the menu to peek inside.
Everything is saved in its original format. Only the published images are sized to the dimensions on the webpage or the settings. The published images are in the Sitename folder on the webserver.

Don't auto archive old topics, because I might return, some day

Here is a suggestion: Don't auto archive old topics, because I might return, some day. It is really annoying, that after couple of months or so I come back, and my threads have been locked. Also the message of locking is very small, hard to notice. I just try and try to post, but nothing helps. Then I find out, oh, the thread is convieniently locked. At the very least, the message should be more clear, and different icon for locked messages.
Thread about this at user forums http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2392195&tstart=0

Hi Barbara,
For some people it is a useful thing.
The Example I linked to is in iSight's forum and if you go there you will see it not that far down the Topic List.
Mostly I have seen nice comments or very late thanks as in the Example.
Currently at the top of the second page in iChat 3 forum is one I used a similar technique on myself. It is the one with the red Title. (iChat 3 is currently getting more posts than iSight is so it has progressed further down).
It is an archived thread so even further Helpfuls and Solved stars cannot be awarded ...
I will leave you to work out what I did and how it could be abused.
10:13 PM Saturday; September 11, 2010

Deleting old iWeb Pages

Hi there.
I've used iWeb from more than one computer with different iWeb domain libraries in the past. Deleted all the old pages & sites I don't need via iWeb but loggin on to me.com shows a lost of old pages that are still up there. Some from even very old iWeb libraries.
Tried manually deleting these stray pages via ME interface but can't delete files that way. Any advice on how to reset and clear my iWeb pages on the ME iDisk?

From Finder press Shift/Command/I to go to your iDisk. Enter your login credentials if necessary. From your iDisk you can view your published files. Select the folders/files you'd like to delete and press delete.

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