Backing up my iWeb site file?

A couple quick, related questions...
Where does iWeb save my site files? I don't mean the "published" stuff in the folder, I'm talking about the working document. I don't see them anywhere, and there's nothing in the menu to allow saving a copy for backup. So how do I make a backup?

You can just drag and drop. However, to make it easy to backup after each session in iWeb download the Automator backup application created by Varkgirl. You can get it at Varkgirl's iWeb Tips and Tricks site.
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  • I had a drive failure and lost the iWeb file along with other things.   I did manage to save a lot of user file documents but I don't see or   recognize the my iWeb site file. It was on a 15" G4 Titanium pb. I'm trying to find a way, using version 2.0.4

    I had a drive failure and lost the iWeb file along with other things. 
    I did manage to save a lot of user file documents but I don't see or 
    recognize the iWeb site file. It was on a 15" G4 Titanium pb.
    I'm trying to find a way, using version 2.0.4 of iWeb on a different 
    pb to recover the file into the iWeb app or a way to download the site into iWeb.
    There are 6 pages of images and text, and it 
    would be a task for me to recreate the whole thing again. I did 
    download the site but I don't know how or if I can get iWeb to see it and open it.
    Does anyone have any knowledge about this? The link to my site:
    <http://web.mac.com/danauerbach>
    Any suggestions will be most appreciated.
    dan auerbach
    [email protected]

    Unfortunately iWeb cannot read or import previously published files, only generate them.  You'll have to recreate your site from scratch.
    However, 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.
    OT

  • I imported my iweb site files from my desktop to my laptop and now they wont open up in iweb

    Hi,
    I imported my iweb site files from my desktop to my laptop and now they wont open up in iweb.
    I can see the files in the home/sites folder but cant seem to be able to replace them with the site that is already in iweb?
    I have just upgraded to lion on the macbook pro and was using 10.4.x on the desktop.
    Is there any way to replace the files and work on the web site on the MBP?
    And I dont see the library/application support/iweb folder anywhere.
    Much appreciate the feedback.
    Thanks

    As I said earlier, iWeb does not open/import webpages.
    And yes, you need the domain file. The movie demonstrates how to move them to and from the default location.
    And the page explains how to open the hidden library folder in Lion. Which is also discussed in the Lion forum and extensively in this one.

  • Warning:  Backing up your iWeb 'Domain' file will not save you.

    Here's the transcript from my chat with a MobilMe Support Rep. after losing (they simply disappeared) all of my blog's very valuable comments (hundreds), for nearly two years of blog entries.
    I have many backed up 'domain' files, and each shows the comments that have been received and saved for all the entries when iWeb first starts up. But then, for some reason iWeb scrubs them (they just disappear) and when I "Publish All" to the web, the entries are published but not the comments attached.
    Read MobilMe's response and consider yourselves warned. Backups won't save you. They simply won't. And yet . . . I was actually told I should have backed up. When I told my tech rep I had, then the reality of the situation came out. This is amazing to me.
    Read on . . .
    You are chatting with Omran A, a MobileMe Support Representative
    Hi, my name is Omran A. Welcome to Apple!
    Omran A: How are you?
    Omran A: I see that you have lost your comments.
    Omran A: Correct?
    Perry: Yes. Phone just rang, so my responses will be a bit slow for a few
    Omran A: I apologize for the inconvenience.
    Omran A: Have you upgraded iWeb recently?
    Perry: Yes, Omran, is there any way to retrieve them?
    Omran A: I am sorry this has happened to you. Losing comments tend to happen when upgrading iweb:
    Perry: I'm running the latest version, and have been since it came out. Had problems with people even leaving comments for a while, as did everyone who was using iWeb, but that had become an issue of the past for a few months as memory serves.
    Omran A: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2094
    Omran A: Please let me know if you can view the link
    Perry: We are well past the info in this upgrade doc. Upgraded long ago
    Perry: Yes, I've got it up
    Omran A: I just wanted to show you that upgrading iWeb tends to delete comments
    Perry: I am at step 6, contact MobilMe support.
    Omran A: Can you please give me a link to your site?
    Perry: http://web.me.com/davidperryphoto1/GardenBlog/APhotographers_Garden_Blog/A_Photographers_GardenBlog.html
    Omran A: Can you please give me a link to your site?
    Omran A: Thank you
    Omran A: Please hold while I do some investigation
    Omran A: Did your comments get deleted after updating to iWeb 2.0 or did happen month after that?
    Perry: More than a month afterward. Just a week or so ago
    Omran A: OK
    Omran A: Thank you
    Omran A: Please hold while I do some further investigation
    Perry: Still there?
    Omran A: Yes
    Omran A: I am still performing a investigation.
    Omran A: Please give me a few more minutes.
    Perry: Thanks. I'll just keep on working here...
    Omran A: Thank you for your patience
    Omran A: I am terribly sorry. I search all over the servers and I am not able to recover your comments.
    Omran A: I suggest backing up comments regularly.
    Omran A: I suggest backing up comments regularly.
    Perry: When I start up iWeb with my saved "domain" file, I see the comments, but then, within moments, the program scrubs them, because, apparently they are no longer out there on the web. Is there anyway to recapture them from the saved domain file?
    Perry: How the heck do I back up my comments if they are stored in some obscure place on one of your servers and seperate from my website?
    Omran A: So you see them and then they disappear
    Perry: yes
    Omran A: OK
    Omran A: I believe the following link shows you how to backup to save comments
    Omran A: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2094
    Perry: Omran, look. I have a backed up copy of my domain, just as they direct. When I start up iWeb with this file, I see the saved comments. But when I publish all, as directed, I get the blog but I get no comments published. That's why you and I are talking. I've apparently got the comments still in some form in my saved domain, but the program, or .ME scrubs them. What the **** good does the backed up file do me if I can't get Mobil Me to recognize the comments and re-post them? This is my issue.
    Omran A: OK
    Omran A: I am sorry I did not fully understand you
    Omran A: One moment please.
    Omran A: I am sorry even though you are able to see the comments for a split second. You can not recover them from the domain file.
    Omran A: Just for clarification
    Perry: Can we agree that this is a gigantic "cluster #@$*" and that this wonderful new opportunity presented us in the form of MobilMe has been very painful and expensive for many of your loyal customers?
    Omran A: You see the comments with the domain file you backed up in iweb but can not see them once you published them to the internet, correct?
    Perry: correct.
    Omran A: Do they disappear in iWeb ?
    Perry: But the program or something tends to scrub them within a minute or so of the program starting up. They are there, in all the entries dating all the way back, and then they are not. They just disappear.
    Omran A: I am sorry the domain is there but We can not recover the comments. I am sorry that you have had a bad experience with MobileMe. We have given our loyal customers a 90 day extension for your patience with us.
    Perry: Do you or anyone there know of a resource that I can send the domain file to take it apart and retrieve the comments. Someone has to know how to burrow into the file and pull that stuff. Anybody there know of a resource?
    Omran A: Let me check
    Omran A: I just checked with my supervisor and he checked the servers and said there is no way to recover your comments.
    Omran A: My sincere apologies. I understand loosing comments that span for two years is very sad.
    Omran A: If there was a way I would let you know.
    Omran A: I am sorry that you experience with MobileMe has not been that great, you may leave a feedback and let us know what issues has frustrated you
    Omran A: MobileMe feedback
    Omran A: Upper manager reads the feeback
    Omran A: Feedback
    Perry: Thanks to you personally Omran for your efforts. I'll be saving and perhaps publishing this dialogue between us on the blog as a warning to others, along with a few choice words and pictures illustrating my newly formed opinion of MobilMe. Watch for it.
    Omran A: If you select the blue close button and you will receive a survey.
    Omran A: Please note that the survey reflects only me.
    Omran A: I am sorry that I was not able to help you.
    Perry: NO worries. Thanks!
    Omran A: If you create the blog can you change my name to something else
    Omran A: It would be horrible to have people coming in and saying oh no it is you!
    Perry: Why, you were awesome. It is iWeb and this new, rammed down our throats long before it should have been, MobilMe that is the problem, not you. You were a real peach.
    Omran A: Thank you Perry
    Omran A: Thank you for chatting and I hope MobileMe services improve to meet your needs
    Omran A: And have a great day
    Perry: You can be certain that I do too! Thanks again!

    Yeah, if your Domain won't fit on a CD or you don't have space to save it, at LEAST set up Backup to annoy you at regular intervals. Once you've clicked cancel a few times due to wanting to get something else done, perhaps it will begin to wear on your psyche and guilt you into going ahead and doing it!

  • HT4898 how do i back up my iWeb site to my mac before the MMe Termination in June??

    I have an iMac & iPhone 4s.
    I am on iCloud, finally. sheesh
    I have a Mobile Me iWeb site blog that I want to keep after June 2012 and publish to a book about a personal story.
    How do I save the iWeb site to my computer or is it saved on my external Iomega 2T drive if I am using Time Machine?
    THEN, how do I upload it to another website/blog host? (who is the best for video/photos, since I am loosing GALLERY!!??)
    What blog site can I find that will allow me to print my story from a blog? (are there any??)
    What blog site host APP will allow me to upload my blog posts to my blog site from my iPhone 4s? (or does this exist?)
    <breathe>!!
    thank you for any input!!
    Kentucky Mom

    See: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4686
    Wordpress is probably the best, most popular blogging software. http://wordpress.org
    To convert iWeb to Wordpress see: http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-to-wordpress.html

  • Finding where my iweb site files are saved

    I need help. My original hd crashed so I have a new one to run my computer. I dragged and dropped all my apps to the new hd as told by a I.T. friend and now I am supposed to format the old hd to use a storage space. Will my website files be gone. Are they actually saved online. Where would I located the actual page files so I can copy them over or did they when I dragged the files over. I have a feeling I am going to have to reinstall all my ilife 06' software but I don't want to start from scratch for my website. I also had to archive and install the new hd because my old one eventually did something to where I couldn't even start from the new one.

    As Roddy was trying to tell you, if you found the "domain" file and it's the right one (double click on it and it will start iweb) you can move it to the same folder on the new drive.
    Actually you can store it wherever you want. Iweb will look at the last file loaded.
    Hopefully what you found is the right file.
    If it is BACK IT UP!!
    good luck

  • Site files moved to new (identical) server; now iWeb gives "Publish Error"

    Our school district just replaced the web server where our teachers publish iWeb sites. All user accounts, passwords, IP addresses, and content moved over just fine, but now when teachers try to publish updates to their existing sites on the new server, iWeb throws a "Publish Error: Unable to communicate with FTP server..." error. Test Connection in the publishing settings works fine, as does logging in to the server using an FTP application, so we know the user accounts are okay.
    An interesting twist: I published my existing site (that was experiencing this issue) to a local folder on my desktop, and used a standalone FTP application to upload and replace my iWeb site files manually; when I went in and set the iWeb publishing settings back to FTP server, it was again able to publish updates to the site without issue.
    We're looking into a permissions problem on the files that were moved from the old server but so far have not been able to find any differences.
    Does anyone have any ideas what may be going on? We have a couple hundred people this is affecting and if it's something we can fix on the back-end instead of having to manually replace all of those site files, that would be a great thing!

    The only time that I had to move a bunch of sites to a new server I was instructed by tech support to download all the sites/files and upload them to the new location.
    I would assume that, if you don't do this, the permissions could get messed up.
    My hosting service uses Webshell4 to manage files on the server. To change permissions you need to select the site folder in Webshell4 and click the "CHMOD" button to get a window that allows you to do this.
    Read permissions should be checked for User, Group and Other.
    Write permissions would normally be set for User only.
    You could try this with one site to see if this is what's required but your hosting service tech support should really help you with this. That's what they are there for.

  • How do I back up my iWeb files?

    Hi...Well I have been having problems with finding information on how to back up my iweb's files. Not the program itself but the websites that I have already developed. Any help will be appreciated...
    PS: I don't have an iWeb folder under Application Support.. ~Library/Application Support/iWeb
    The only folders available are iWorks, iMovie, Adobe etc...

    It sounds as if you're looking in the wrong Library folder. You're probably looking at the top-level Library rather than your own, Home Library folder. Switch to the Finder and open a new window. You'll see an icon that looks like a house in the side bar, with your User Name beside it. Click on that to view the contents of your Home folder. That's where you'll find the appropriate Library, which will bring you to the iWeb folder inside the Application Support folder. Keep a copy of 'Domain' which you see there. That's your backup.
    For future reference, it's common practice to use ~ (the tilde character) as shorthand for your Home folder, so if someone tells you to go to ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb, they intend that you begin at 'Home'.
    [ Visit here for iWeb Tips, Tricks and Hacks ]

  • HELP! can't find my iweb domain file anymore

    tried to back up my iweb domain file. located a file called 'domain' (in the library--> application support--> iweb folder) and opened it to check the contents (it seemed too light). it was the wrong file, an empty one not the domain i have been using.
    when i migrated to this machine, i must have renamed my good old domain file, put it somewhere and set iweb to run with it.
    the problem is now that i accidently opened the wrong domain file, iweb is set to run with this empty domain file. i.e. all my pages and sites appear gone.
    i have no idea where my real domain file is.
    "spotlight" or "file-->find" are no help whatsoever in locating it (heck, they could not even locate the other 'domain' file... does spotlight not search in the library area of the HD?? seems really lame). it must be somewhere. it was just here a second ago. it's not in the trash either (which i have not emptied for a while).
    any help?

    hm, i tried Cmd-Shift-C and typing "sites2" in the search field.
    searching 'this mac' and 'file name' or 'contents' turns up nothing.
    i tried typing 'domain' in the search field also.
    also tried to search by 'kind' typing in 'iweb domain'. turns up nothing.
    not even the domain file which i know is there (the wrong one, in the library --> iweb folder) and is called 'domain.' and which get info tells me is of the kind 'iweb domain'. ireonically, only its alias comes up (which is not in hte library folder).
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    is it just me or is something wrong here? if you search for a file that is clearly there, but search does not turn it up, wouldnt it follow that the search function is no good?
    i also tried searching as 'contents' a phrase which i know is in on one of the pages in the domain. but no luck either.
    i have not deleted the domain file. i am positive about that. i just opened a different/wrong domain file. that in itself should not delete, damage or hide my domain. its just misplaced. the frustrating thing is of course that the sites are still all there published online! but i cannot change or update them without the domain file... (of course i have a backup from a few weeks ago, but would be nice not to have to start from that again...)
    any more suggestions on more effective searches? e.g. i know that the 'kind' is called 'iweb domain'. any search program that could do anything with that?
    thanks for the cmd-shift-c hint btw. will come in handy in other ways im sure.

  • Retrieve iweb site from godaddy

    I had to do a clean install on my mac pro - so could not alter my iweb site which is hosted on godaddy, using fetch I retrieved the all web site files in one folder, but cannot seem to get iweb to run them.
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    iWeb won't 'run' those pages because iWeb has no import facility so is unable to open html files and a published site, which is effectively what you have downloaded from GoDaddy.
    Did you not backup your hard drive before you did a clean install? Did you not back up your domain.sites file to be precise? This is where iWeb stores all its data and is the file that you need to be able to make any alterations to your site. It is located under User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites. Make sure it is your User Library that you look under and not your System Library, as you will not find iWeb there.
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    Today I brought home my IMac with it's new hard drive because the old died. I've been restoring from my external and while daunting, it's going okay.
    When I click on my IWeb icon in the dock it opens as if I don't have a website already built. My IWeb site is still active, but I don't know how to get it back to IWeb so I can work on it or make changes. The pages are listed on my .Mac account. Any help would be appreciated.

    I'm wondering if you backed up your iWeb "Domain" file to your external drive? iWeb saves all the information about your sites in a single file called "Domain". This file would have been located on your old hard drive in the Users/username/Library/Application Support/iWeb/ folder pathway. This is the only thing that constitutes a backup of your iWeb work. Without the "Domain" file, then there is no way to get your existing online site back into iWeb for further editing or publishing.
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  • Importing an iWeb site..

    My mac mini went nuts and I ended up reformating it. But prior to this I saved my website. Now how do I import the site into iWeb? I really dont want to rebuild it again.

    Joop,
    Welcome to Apple's iWeb forum. Cool site you have there; I'm sure all your buds appreciate the work you have done getting this online.
    Problem is, you can't import published stuff back into the iWeb app. You see, iWeb doesn't even write html until you click a publish command; then it draws on a single file, Domain.sites, which is where it stores everything you create in the app, and then generates the code necessary for rendering your pages on the web. It's not a true html editor like Dreamweaver or Golive.
    Sorry for the bad news, but you will have to recreate the site. You may consider just creating a new site altogether, and having links in the new site back to the old one; but most definitely, from now on, back up this Domain.sites file so you don't run into this problem again.
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  • How to copy iWeb blog to new iWeb site?

    Hi Folks,
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    I've tried to copy files in the iWeb site files, and then reopen iWeb, and I can't see the blog page listed.
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    Thanks,
    Inoshi

    To be able to drop and drag from one site to another in iWeb, you firstly need to have iWeb 09.  You then need to open the relevant domain.sites file and you need to have the sites underneath each other, so Site1 above and then Site2 below and all you do is just click on the Blog page on Site1 and just drag it over and down to Site2.
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    I would also advise that you don't use the iWeb blog, as it is not that good and there are better alternatives out there.
    You might like to look at some new software too such as EverWeb - http://www.everwebapp.com.  It is very like iWeb, but is actively supported and developed whereas for the last 2 years, iWeb has not been and has not been sold by Apple either.
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    Think about changing before iWeb becomes unusable.

  • Can you link back to an iweb homepage from a .mac gallery?

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    On my page the link to the dotMac webgallery opens in in a new window. So there's no need to link back. Just close the window.
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    You cannot add a link anyway, since there's no page to edit. The page(s) are created bij dotMac.
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    I am trying to find out if an iWeb site could be viewed in a local computer kiosk environment.  I know that you can export your files, but are iWeb site files "self-supporting" in a browseer or do they require a connection to the internet to be viewed properly?

    iWeb is an application to create simp,e straitforward webpages with.
    The pages are published to a folder called a  site.
    Every page is selfcontained, with the exception of the photoalbums, which need a few files from the Apple Server.
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    BTW, Wuala is an alternative to DropBox. Safer too. No Government agents have acces to private files.
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