Complete Success with iWeb 08

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Well after reading all the Horror stories here I was mucho frightened! So I of course backed up my Domain document although I knew I have a mirror Cloned using CCC thats in my Tower. The 'conversion' completed without a hitch till after the progress bar was finished. Then it Crashed and asked to reopen. When I reopened it Crashed again, so the next effort I hit close to let the app properly cycle and button itself up.
Next attempt it did reopen and stayed opened. So seeing all those 'Red" folders (6 photo pages) I hit the Publish Button on the bottom of the screen. It proceeded to do its thing, but I noticed that now there was a progress bar instead of the little Pie indicator to the right of the Site name. I simply waited.. Then the Pie progress indicator did Indeed appear, and I saw on my Net Monitor app, that the site was now uploading. It seemed to be finished but the Circle of the indicator was still appearing - So I WAITED some more and after a while the empty Circle disappeared and I got a Dialog Box that told me it was complete!
So there were 2 instances that I thought perhaps the import/conversion process was Done when in fact IT WAS NOT. I could have probably Tanked my entire site had I not waited patiently. So buyer Beware. Allow the procedures to COMPLETE, as I bet many will not, and end up with an incomplete conversion, Hence not working. I thank God I had the good sense or fortune to wait and was relieved to get a Dialog Box that told me it was completed and asked me If I wanted to close or Visit my site. I copied the web address from that Dialog Box and closed the iWeb app, opened Safari pasted the address and my full site was there. ( It opened with placeholders but in a few seconds the pictures all populated) Whew.. YMMV moral, be patient and wait a few minutes when you think its done, it may Not Be.
http://web.mac.com/eugenefields
Message was edited by: mactechconsulting

Answer 1

Glad to hear that it worked for you. But I am really starting to wonder where I went wrong then, because I did not use third-party anything with iWeb, and I can't update my '06 domain file. iWeb just freezes, shows as "Not responding" and in red in the Force Quit window. I don't believe there's any point in trying to wait that out.
And not only that, but when starting over with a fresh domain file, iWeb '08 crashes or freezes all the time too. I'm a big Apple fan, and I haven't lost anything important because I backed it all up and have a second Mac to rely on, but seriously, this is bad. It's just bad. I can't come up with any excuses for this one (or the stripped-down new iMovie, but I digress). I have a straightforward site -- based on "modern" template -- I don't understand why the new version of iWeb can't read it. I understand even less why iWeb '08 would be crashing with a brand new domain file.
My site is here: http://web.mac.com/mousie/iWeb/Site/Home.html
If anyone can see any reason why I may be having these problems, please let me know. I've tried all the tricks to "get it to work" that I could find on this forum. Thanks.