Domain sites on idisk

I consider myself an apple addict. Love Apple.
For the last year I have known that apple was moving from the .mac to icloud. I thought our data/mail would be moved from idisk to icloud. I know, silly me. Now, I can't access my files, photos and domain files for the many websites I have made the last decade. This move is like me telling my husband that I am going shopping next June without letting him know I am going to wipe out his bank account at the same time.
Please give me suggestions on how I can access my iweb domain files and idisk files to save to another location.
In the future I will not put so much trust in Apple. Am pretty sure that if I put all of my files in the iCloud, that one day soon it too will just disappear for the next great thing. Anyone heard of the word MIGRATION? AND to think.....I paid good money for a service I did not receive.
Thanks in advance for your guidance and support. I really appreciate all of the experts out there who take the time to address our questions and attempt to relieve our frustrations.

If you migrated your MobileMe account and have Lion, your Mail, Contacts and Calendars would be migrated. You signature says you have 10.5.2 - is this correct? You cannot do anything with iCloud on Leopard except access your email, for which you will need to set Mail up manually:
Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard
As announced in various emails and notices on the site, the iDisk was not transferred to iCloud, which does not provide an equivalent service, and it is now closed and the contents deleted. You had over a year's warning to download your files - but you have not been charged for MobileMe since your last renewal date: it was extended for free until the closure.
Any files which were on your iDisk and not also on your computer are irretrievably lost, I'm afraid. However your sites should still be visibile in iWeb as long as you have not lost the Domain file which lives in (user)/Library/Application Support/iWeb. iWeb should open that automatically. (The Domain file was never stored on the iDisk unless you put it there yourself, and downloading your site's pages wouldn't do you any good because iWeb cannot open html pages.)
You will need to find another hosting service - there are plenty to choose from - and you can publish your iWeb site to that, using the FTP option in the Publish pane on iWeb '09 and above, or with earlier versions you will need to publish to a local folder and upload that using an FTP program such as Cyberduck.
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I thought it would be a good idea to move my domain.sites file from my local hardrive to iDisk so I could work on my web site while on the road.
I was wrong. It was a lousy idea. It takes forever to load, save, and publish. What a pain.
Now I want to copy the domain.sites from the iDisk to my harddrive but it won't do it. I get a message saying I don't have permission to read some of the files. ***! It's my darn file, I shouldn't need permission, but that's besides the point.
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Yeah, the whole Domain file on the iDisk idea always seemed iffy to me. Sorry to hear about your troubles.
Try this....try selecting your Domain file on your iDisk, then do a Get Info on it (Apple-i or File>Get Info). In the window that opens, look all the way to the bottom where it says Ownership and Privileges. Click on details. Click on the lock to make changes. See if you can change the ownership to yourself or maybe some of the read/write privileges there.
I wonder if this will make a difference. Let me know.

Domain Splitting and iDisk issues

First, my apologies if my question has been answered previously. I did search the forums, but didn't find anything promising.
I have split my large domain.sites file into four separate domain.sites file, following the guidance of folks on this forum. Each domain.sites file contains two sites; a one-page "index" site with links to all my sites and one of my "real" sites. (the index site has a slightly different name in each domain.sites file so I don't ovewrite).
But now I'm having a dickens of a time keeping all the sites online at the same time. I did some searching in these forums and discovered that I have to do two rounds of "publish all." Since these were existing files, the first time I told one domain file to "publish all," it erased the sites I had deleted from that file. After the second round of publishing, the sites have all come back (except for my biggest one, which I haven't published a second time; I'll do that overnight).
It looked like I have everything working...until I synced my iDisk. Then one of my sites disappeared again! Plus, some of my sites that I can access on-line don't show up on my iDisk.
I typically leave my iDisk mounted on my desktop. Do I need to change this if I'm working with multiple domain.sites files?
Thanks for any help you can provide!

Thanks to both of you for your help. I after one last publish last night, I got all my sites on line.
Syncing my iDisk didn't work as well, though. Somehow I ended up with two copies of my iDisk on my desktop: one with the typical globe icon and another with a generic "drive" icon. The globe one was supposedly the current one, saying it had sinced this morning, but it only had some of my sites on it. (Oddly enough, it had each of the index sites, from all four domain.sites files, but not all the "real" sites from those files) The plain "drive" icon idisk had all the files on it. I couldn't get rid of either of them without restarting. But restarting seemed to set things to rights.
I've taken Varkgirl's advice and don't have my iDisk on my desktop. I didn't really access it much anyway.
Would it be of benefit to others for me to spell out the steps I took to split my domains and have a site index always show up as the site for the short url? I'd adjust it with some of the things I've learned in the process. I know there are good instructions for domain splitting in this forum already, but I don't know that my approach to a sites index with multiple domains has appeared on the forums before.

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TextEdit is what is says - it is an html editor so that you use it to edit html code, so not url will show up as it does in Safari etc. Safari is a browser and TextEdit does what it says on the tin - edits html code.
The easiest way is to go back into iWeb and open your domain file with the site on it and re-publish all of that site and it will be back at the top again. That is assuming that you have the relevant domain fiel and have not deleted it?
If you publish another site in iWeb, assuming that they have different names, they will not cancel each other out, but what will happen is that the second published site will be at the top, so all you need do is re-publish your original site from iWeb and it will be back at the top again.
You can always get to all your iWeb sites via the url http://web.me.com/username/sitename so Site1, Site2 etc.

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I just reformated my mac, so everything got erased. But my iDisk has my site still under iDisk -> Web -> Sites and then has my site. So how can I get my iWeb 09 to import the site from my iDisk to the actually iWeb so I can start editing it and etc..

No, because it is not part of your published site, rather it is an iWeb file and can be found under User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites.
Anything on your iDisk or under MobileMe is a published site that iWeb cannot open and it is the same if you publish to a folder, the site is published so iWeb cannot use it.
In this case, you will either have to locate your domain file or re-build your site.

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Is there a way I can back up my entire site on iDisk so I can access it on another computer?

You can drop your Domain file into your Documents folder on your iDisk, if you want, and download it for editing anytime. Actually, I think you could probably open it on the iDisk with iWeb. (I think I tried this once).
It will be slow, but you could do it. External drives are much better.
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Can't open file "~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain.sites"

I was working on iWeb today, doing the usual adding pictures, and gave a few pages some color, and a few pictures here and there.
I restart my computer, because as usual, I almost have no memory left. When the computer is running again, I opened iWeb, and I get this odd message:
Can't open file "~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain.sites"
Why is this here? I didn't do anything weird to trigger such message. The site was working perfectly fine! I tried taking the domain file to the desktop, then opening it once iWeb launches from there, and same message appears. I put it back to its place, and tried putting the iWeb plist on the desktop, and same deal!
Everything is back in its place, I haven't changed or triggered anything to deserve this. I ran Onyx, full optimization update. I restarted computer, and conducted a full disk permission repairs. Only 1 error found out of another app.
My computer is healthy, my programs are running fine. What is going on? Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Hi
Whaow 3.1GB. I'm sure iWeb has problems with that. I have the same problem with my iWeb. I have about 100 BLOG pages with a lot of pictures. Although iWeb scales the pictures when publishing (good!) it does not scale them when they are stored in the domains file/dir (bad!) So if you have an 8MP camera, this adds up after a while.
You can open the comains file and try to figure out what causes the trouble. (Right click/CTRL click, open content) sort on size to see if you have some extremely large stuff in there (Movies???) Take them out and try to make them smaller.
Good luck!!
Walter

Keeping multiple domain.sites on the same computer

Based on reading the help info, it seemed that if I had several domain.sites in DIFFERENT folders, I could open them separately and thus keep several different sites on the same computer (which I want to do to keep my student's work). However this doesn't seem to work. Even if I rename the "main site" (in application support) something else, like domainX.site, the copy domain.site which I have on my desktop (or in another folder) remains in sync. It doesn't matter which I change, they both remain the same. So I do not see how I can do what I need to do . . . any suggetions? I am using iweb 06

Select the domain file hit command(Apple)+d
The two domain files (domain.sites and domain copy.sites) are completely independent from each other.
To edit one of the two simply double click it.
If you duplicated the domain files (command(apple+d)) changes to one will not apply to the other.
Regards,
Cédric

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I've looked over a lot of postings, but I can't figure out what I should do once I have the Domain.sites file, and I've put it in the same place on my new computer but I get the message: "Can't Open File."
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What system are you running on your new Mac?
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Ha
Thanks for the responses - I think I have it now.
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I was working on a webpage that I publish to my MobileMe account. Created the Welcome page, no problem, when I got to the "My Albums" is when my crashing problem begain. Something regarding a Kernal Exception (SGID).
These were the steps:
Created Album on "Sites" list in iWeb.
Selected a template from presets.
(this is where the problem began). I dragged a MobileMe Gallery I created in iPhoto, into the templates "drag and drop album here" element on the Album page in iWeb.
The Domains.site2 file it was using, would crash iWeb everytime.
I deleted (moved Domains.site2) to trash, and iWeb would once again, load.
I created another site, saved it, then moved it to another folder, so I would be prompted by iWeb to create or choose a domain site.
I chose the Domain.site2 file that had been causing the iWeb crashes, and it loaded.
When I attempted to select the album page under "My Albums", it would crash everytime. But I could at least still load iWeb. But there was no way to remove the "corrupt?" album page from Domains.site2. So basically, I had to start over.
Now, I go to create a new Domain site, I publish it to my MobileMe web/site. But the Domain.site file could not be found anywhere! Perhaps, instead of using ".site" or "site" as the root name, I named it "The Art of t.king", caused this?
So my question is:
1.) How do I avoid creating corrupt Domains.sites? can I not use Galleries created in iPhoto that are MobileMe sync enabled? I "thought" it would be nice, if the website album auto-updated content when updating the MobileMe Sync'd Gallery in iPhotos.
2.) Do the suffices of Domain.Sites have to be "sitesxxxx"? is this why I lost my last Welcome page / Domain.TheArt_oft.king? (it shows on mobile me browing "/web" contents.

InterAd wrote:
How can I find the real domain file? or is it gone?
Welcome to the discussions. Try using Spotlight to search for the latest Domain file. ...It has an extension (usually hidden) of:
.sites2
But Spotlight doesn't look in all areas of the hard drive — so if no luck, download and run Find File to search for ".sites2".
InterAd wrote:
Can I recover the file from the published site?
No.
Or do I have to rebuild it from scratch?
You'll have to if you can't find the Domain file.
And it's not only your Domain file that you may lose; as someone wrote:
"Be very careful with those domain filed. You lose them and your toast."

How to move iWeb site with missing Domain.sites file

I've been asked to host a friend's iWeb site now that MobileMe is no longer an option. The problem is that the MacBook it was created with is long gone and the only original files remaining are the image files for the site. No Domain.sites file. They are also not sure which version of iWeb was used, if that even matters. Initially I was thinking we could just access the existing site using ftp and go from there - upload the site to my hosting account and use Dreamweaver to maintain it, but everything I've read seems to point to 'Not gonna happen that way'.
Is there a way to transfer an existing iWeb site hosted on MobileMe to a new hosting account and be able to work on it with another editor, all the while not having the original Domain.sites(2) file?
Thanks much,
Mark

Quite a few people are moving to other drag and drop style editors like Sandvox and RapidWeaver although they aren't really any better - just more expensive.
I advise people not to use iWeb for new sites and just to keep it going to update existing ones until they are defunct or rebuilt some other way.
I quit using iWeb about a year ago due to the fact that it, and similar apps, can't create responsive designs for mobile devices although I did figure out a stop gap design for iPhones...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Mobile-iWeb.html

How big domain.sites can be without problem?

Ok. My site right now is just 60 MB so I wonder How bigger can it get?
Because until now I haven't had any problem using iWeb but people frequently is posting problem with publishing and alike.
So sometimes I'm afraid of getting in problems if my sites get larger.
Can you show me how big is your website in iWeb please?

MacFirePro2:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. I have a number of iWeb domain files that are above 100 MB going up to 256 MB. I use iWebSites to manage multiple sites.. It lets me create multiple sites and multiple domain files.
If you have multiple sites in one domain file here's the workflow I used to split them into individual site files with iWebSites. Be sure to make a backup copy of your original Domain.sites files before starting the splitting process.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want.

IWeb 1.1(.1) and multiple Domain.sites

There are (still) a lot of references to Domain.sites resides in ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder, this is no longer true with iWeb 1.1(.1).
iWeb 1.1(.1) can handle multiple Domain.sites, and once you double click a Domain.sites outside of ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder, ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder is no longer needed (unless you double click the Domain.sites inside ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder, again).
Once you double click a Domain.sites outside of ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder, you can move iWeb folder out of ~/Library/Application Support folder, and iWeb WON'T create another ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder.
huh?

iWeb 1.1.x multiple domains handling is quite low
key, and for a good reason. Although, iWeb 1.1.x can
handle multiple Domain.sites, however, there is no
way (that I know of) to create a fresh Domain.sites
from iWeb.
Some one prove me wrong, please.
Hmmmmm, I AM able to create a new Domain.sites file using iWeb 1.1.1; see this Apple support article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303670
I've got a number of different sites that I had been keeping in different folders in a new folder that I named "Sites" that I kept where the default Domain.sites file was stored, i.e.,
for "Site1": ~username/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Sites/Site1/Domain.sites
for "Site2": ~username/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Sites/Site2/Domain.sites
etc.
Prior to version 1.1.1, when I'd open one of the Domain.sites files, iWeb would automatically create a Domain.sites file in the ~username/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder, then when I was done making changes to that file, I'd have to copy it back into the subfolder. Now with version 1.1.1, iWeb does NOT create a new file but rather just uses the Domain.sites file from where it is opened and makes that the new default location. To create a new site, just move this folder containing the Domain.sites file that iWeb now uses as the default to a different location and start iWeb by clicking on the iWeb application: you'll then get a new site. If the last opened Domain.sites file was in the username/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder, then moved to a different location, and then you open iWeb by clicking on the iWeb application, you will be prompted to either "Quit", "Create Domain…", or "Choose Domain…"; click "Create Domain…" and you'll then be asked to choose a location for a new Domain file; select a new location then iWeb opens with a new site.
Hope I'm making sense.
Bob
20" iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5; 1 GB RAM

Domain.sites" could not be opened. After power loss

Oh sht have i got a prob.
I'm getting this message after a power loss, iweb will just not open anything............
The document "Domain.sites" could not be opened.
IWEB
Can’t open file “~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain.sites.”
I have main site posted, so need to get that back into iweb of course. But I've also been working on new part to the site. It looks like I've lost everything and of course it's on the one drive I don't back up!!!
Can anyone help with what this could be?!?!
Thanks
Rob

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