Domain file deletion

hi
i deleted the iWeb folder in Library/Application Support when i was trying to solve a problem with iWeb. what should i do, and how do it do it? i've made a new website in iWeb...
thanks

Try using an application such as Data Rescue or FileSalvage.
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    For opening your domain file 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
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    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.
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    Although some of the following will be a repeat but try the following:
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    go to your Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete its contents.
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    launch iWeb and try again.
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    move the domain file from your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder to the Desktop.
    launch iWeb, create a new test site, save the new domain file and close iWeb.
    go to the your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and delete the new domain file.
    move your original domain file from the Desktop to the iWeb folder.
    launch iWeb and try again.
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  • Accidentally deleted domain files trying to create a second site...

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    I back up with Time Machine and have an extensive elaborate website I created in iWeb '09 over a couple months and publish to a local folder and then upload to my server, but in the last few days I notice certain pages (that I haven't even worked on or touched) somehow become corrupted or "cross-contaminated" with elements and images from other pages.  Once I see they are corrupt I make sure not to publish them (if the current published versions are the correct, non-corrupt versions) or if they did get published I can use Time Machine to retrieve the .html file and page files folder for that specific page and replace it in my published folder/server so it shows correctly on the Web.  However, that does not replace the corrupted page(s) you see and work with when you launch iWeb and try to edit or continue working on that page.
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    Do you Twango?

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    Put the copied domain file somewhere, or rename it and put it in the Application Support/iWeb folder, and double-click it.  That should open it.

  • Multiple Domain Files

    A lot of questions are asked in this forum about managing multiple domain files and splitting existing ones.
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    When I first loaded iWeb '08, I kept a copy of a blank domain file and use this to start a new site by duplicating it into a new folder and double clicking it to launch iWeb.
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    UUIDs are like finger prints in Domain.sites2. There are ways to start new Domain.sites2 without duplicate an existing one:
    1) move the last accessed Domain.sites(2) from its location, or rename the holding folder.
    2) change com.apple.iWeb.plist setting, I post the procedure here:
    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6007612&#6007612
    This can be done with AppleScript or Unix shell script. Doing so will get you new Domain with new UUID.
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  • Missing domain files and how do I find them?

    Two related questions and I will try to be brief. both are related.
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  • How can I find iweb domain files?

    Hi everyone.  I'm in a bit of a state!  I built a fairlybig website with iweb 1 - http://www.lakesweddingmusic.com - on my old Macbook (10.4.11) which died a few months ago.  I now have a Macbook Pro(10.8.2) and have imported iweb 3.0.2 (I think that's the version) from an iLife '11 disc, along with iDVD.  I tried the newly imported iweb 3 and it worked well. However, my mistake was to test it out:  I opened a new file from a template and called it 'blank'. Now I want to get rid of this test file and load up my already created website -lakesweddingmusic.com.  However, now that I've traced my old Domain files on my old Mac's hardrive, which fortunately, was left intact after the rest of the computer died, I can't get rid of this test file I created.  My problem is I can't find the new domain file that I created in order to test out iWeb 3.  If I delete the file in iWeb, iWeb won't close and neither will the mac Pro close, unless I do a 'start button shut down', which seems to be the only way to close iWeb when there are no files in it.  Then , when I reboot and open iweb, up comes the test file which I deleted!  So it's got to be somewhere on my new Mac.  I've searched Users/Me/Library/Application Support - but the only iweb folder there is the one I created which houses the Domain file which I copied from my old Macbook hard drive!  I've tried searching for 'domain' but only get the file with my website on it.  I simp[ly cannot find or get rid of this new file.  Any suggestions as to where it might be hiding would be most welcome.

    In Lion and Mountain Lion the Home/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 Mountain 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 in your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder that 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

  • Publish Error after copying domain file from one mac to another

    Hello there,
    so here is the problem: I have had iweb installed on a MBP, and a website up and running. Now that I just bought an iMac I wanted to transfer all the iWeb over to the iMac and make it the main machine. I was doing all the transfer work manually rather than using the migration assistant or time machine.
    I have copied the domain file in the iWeb directory over to the iMac. iWeb starts and displays all the pages and sites normally, but when I try to publish I get the " Publish Error. An unknown error occurred" message.
    On the MBP everything was/is working normally.
    I have tried to copy the same file again, no change. I have deleted the preference file, no change.
    I have tried publishing to a local folder, and get the same error message.
    Does anybody have an idea how to get this fixed? I browsed through the discussions here but couldn't find anything regarding this specific issue.
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    Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Try the following:
    1 - delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder.
    2 - go to your User/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete the contents.
    3 - reboot.
    4 - launch iWeb and try to publish.
    If that doesn't help continue:
    5 - move the domain file from your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder to the Desktop.
    6 - launch iWeb, create a new test site and save.
    7 - go to the your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and delete the new domain file.
    8 - move your original domain file from the Desktop to the iWeb folder.
    9 - launch iWeb and try again.
    OT

  • 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!

  • How do jpg files in a iWeb domain file get corrupted?  How can I stop it?

    I opened up my Domain file to work on my site and several photos were replaced by a grey box with an X and a question mark in the middle. I close iWeb right click the domain file and "Show Contents". When I inspect those files i get this message.
    *"Couldn’t open the file. It may be corrupt or a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize."*
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