Erasing domain file on iDisk

My domain file on my hard disk is 483 megs. The domain file on my iDisk is 913 megs . I have synchronisation problems. I am planning to erase the domain file on my iDisk in order to cure that. Is that correct ?
Thanks, I am beginning to use iWeb...
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Did you copy your Domain file to your iDisk? Have you been using it from there? Just make sure that the most up-to-date copy of your Domain file is actually on your hard drive in the following folder path: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/iWeb/...
If it's there, then I think it's safe to delete the Domain file from your iDisk. I don't think it's a great idea to work off the iDisk like that anyway....at least in the case of iWeb and the Domain file. And there's no reason to take up space and eat up bandwidth that way, too.

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IWeb domain file in iDisk

Hello. Is it possible to keep and open the domain file from the iWeb on my iDsk space? and access it from 2 different computers?
Thank you

Yes, but see NOTE 1 here:
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebTwocomputers.html
There's also this alternative:
Managing an iWeb site from multiple Macs with Dropbox

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.
More information here:
http://rfwilmut.net/missing2

Accessing domain.sites file from idisk

Hi, all! Merry X-mas!
I just got a new MacBook (yay!) and I would like to work on my various websites. However, my desktop with my files on it is 3,000 miles away. Is there a way to open iweb on my new computer and access my various domains here using my idisk?
Thanks! And Happy Holidays!
Lisa

Hi Lisa and Merry Christmas!
If you had copied your Domain files to your iDisk, you could download them to your new laptop and open them with the iWeb application. Beyond that, unless you know a way to hack into the system on your desktop machine...
I keep mine (Domains) on a usb thumb drive that I always carry with my laptop. You can even click on them straight from the drive and iWeb will open them for editing and publishing.
Mark

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.

Multiple Domain files, Multiple Sites, Publishing Problems

I am frustrated beyond belief. I'm an old hand-coder, coming from BBEdit, but I've been using iWeb almost exclusively since its release, because it really is a great product for quick, easy, stylish designs.
However.... In that year, my collection of sites has grown to 12. Discovering that iWeb becomes a major dog when dealing with that much material, I found and followed the instructions - today - to separate my sites into individual domain files, and edit them individually. iWeb is much snappier and publishing goes much more quickly.
The problem? Well... after editing, "Publish to .Mac" rarely works. Only "Publish All to .Mac" will get the site online (something about an error with the index.html file). But "Publish All to .Mac", I've just discovered, DELETES the other websites that I have previous published. All day I've been doing updates and publishing my sites, only to discover that the uploads have all been wiped out by the most recent one!
I'm a big enough fellow to admit that my knowledge isn't total nor perfect - so please, would someone out there with a better handle on iWeb than I (preferably someone who actually deals with multiple domain files rather than someone who thinks they can guess the problem) please clue me into how we make use of this program non-destructively?
I suppose I could always publish everything to folders and upload it to my iDisk (which itself remains ridiculously slow after how many years now? Sheesh!), but that detracts from the elegance of the .Mac integration, the counter features, - not to mention the little fact that I'm a paying .Mac customer and this darn thing should just work, no?

Mark:
I was where you were also. You should give iWebSites a try. It's to iWeb what iPhoto Library Manager is to iPhoto.
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 Domain.sites files before starting the splitting process.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want. Just remember to put a copy of your current Domain.sites file somewhere else on your HD in case the splitting gets messed up. It went very smoothly for me and I now manage 19 or so sites.
Do you Twango?

Question about Domain file size...

I have a dot Mac account, and my iDisk capacity is 1 Gb.
As I regularly back-up my Domain file from my G5 iMac to a FW external drive that sits on my desk, I have just noticed that the file size is now just over 1 Gb.
Can someone please explain to me why I still have almost 700Mb left on my iDisk, yet my Domain file size is over 1 Gb?? Obviously, there must be 'internal' files that aren't copied to the iDisk.
Thanks,
Rachel.

Wow, that's quite a discrepancy. 1gb Domain vs. 300mb site? Well suffice it to say that the Domain file contains all the information that is needed to generate your site. But it makes me curious too why you have such a large discrepancy. Do you have a lot of video on your site?
My site is only about 50-60mb and my Domain is roughly the same size. When I first started using iWeb, I used to poke around inside the Domain file quite a bit more than I do now. You can open up your Domain file by Control-clicking it and selecting "Show Package Contents." At one point early on when I was blithely dragging and dropping stuff into iWeb and publishing just for experimentation, I noticed that even after I deleted images or EVEN WHOLE PAGES, that sometimes the Domain file would still contain images and quicktime movies left over from the deleted pages. I didn't know what was going on and actually tried to delete the "old" items from the Domain file, but I ended up with a non-functional Domain file...lots of error messages saying it was missing this and that. So I started over completely with a new Domain file. I also noticed at the time that my Domain file was several megabytes larger than my site.
Since then, I have been very careful only to drag items to iWeb that will actually be used. The Domain-to-site size ratio has stayed pretty much 1:1. So I chalked up my earlier experience as a fluke. I don't know. Maybe there is an inconsistency somewhere. In fact, do a search here on "Domain file optimizing" or "Domain file bloat" and you may be able to find my questions about the issue. I never did get any responses, though.

"short" urls and multiple domain files

In http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=655367&tstart=0,
Apnewbie said:
"If you have separate sites with separate Domain files and published separately to .Mac, they will be listed on your iDisk in alphabetical order and your short .Mac url will point to the one at the top of the list on the iDisk."
I'm thinking about splitting my domain file, as my sites are growing large and it is time consuming for iWeb to recreate all the pages when I've only changed one site. I'd like to keep a particular "site" (consisting of one page with links to my other "real" sites) at the top of the list so it is always what appears when folks go to my short url. Are than any non-alphanumeric characters that I can use at the begin that won't cause problems for browsers?
Does this mean that if my preferred "top site" is in domain file A and I publish domain file B after I've published domain A, the "top site" will still be the site at the short url?
Also, can somebody please remind me again how to use a link in the forums here but have text other than the full url show up? I think I've done it before, but I've forgotten.
iBook G4 14 in Mac OS X (10.4.7) iMac 400 MHz G3 OS 9.2.2

Apnewbie said:
"If you have separate sites with separate Domain
files and published separately to .Mac, they will be
listed on your iDisk in alphabetical order and your
short .Mac url will point to the one at the top of
the list on the iDisk."
I spoke too soon on this and a correction is needed. When you publish to .Mac using individual Domain files, your short url will point to the most recently published index.html file, which will then take you to your most recently published site. I tested this just prior to that last statement in that post and my browser cache tripped me up here.
I'm thinking about splitting my domain file, as my
sites are growing large and it is time consuming for
iWeb to recreate all the pages when I've only changed
one site. I'd like to keep a particular "site"
(consisting of one page with links to my other "real"
sites) at the top of the list so it is always what
appears when folks go to my short url. Are than any
non-alphanumeric characters that I can use at the
begin that won't cause problems for browsers?
I don't think that's necessary; you can keep a copy of the index.html file which points to your preferred site and place it back on your iDisk after publishing any site to force your short url to point to the site of your choice.
Does this mean that if my preferred "top site" is in
domain file A and I publish domain file B
after I've published domain A, the "top site"
will still be the site at the short url?
Again, the short url will point to the most recently published index.html file in .Mac. Sorry for the confusion.

Image colors depend on the computer that publishes my Domain file?!?!

Here's a weird one... First, the setup.
My site is published from two different computers both using iWeb '08, using the same Domain.sites2 file that's passed from computer to computer using my idisk. The Domain file is always copied down to a local computer before new changes are made and published. Recently, I've noticed, that publishing from one of the computers (but not the other) results in overly intense colors, especially in the red tones. This I tested by accessing my site with Safari and opening one of the overly intense images. Leaving the browser page open, I then republish my site using a different computer, accessed the page again... and the images is normal! On screen you see the previously published image beside the newly published image, and the color deffirecenes are obvious, even though the same file was being published without modification.
Can anyone think of why this is happening? I can't imagine iWeb treating the publishing of images differently from computer to computer, unless there is some other weird computer-dependent processing going on.
Thanks for any ideas!
John
aking the same Domain file, and without replacing the

Unfortunately, the issue is not with which pages get published (that works fine), but with the amount of color in the images that are published.
Imagine this...
You have a JPEG photo of a sunset that is stored on an idisk. The photo is downloaded to Computer A, placed onto a page in iWeb, and published to the web. Here, the photo appears on the web site as one would expect (blue sky, subtle oranges and reds, some purples). The Domain.sites2 file is then copied onto the idisk.
Now, on Computer B the Domain.sites2 is downloaded from the idisk, and opened in iWeb. A change is made to the page (not a change to the photo) and the site is republished. When visiting the site a sunset still appears, but the blue sky is now really, really blue, and the subtle oranges and reds are now intensely red. It would appear that a significant amount of contrast and saturation has been added to the photo.
Something about publishing is different on Computer B.
Here's some additional interesting data.
The original photo file is 1024 x 656 pixels and 391K in size.
The photo is sized in iWeb to be 605 x 388.
After the initial publishing from Computer A (the one in which the image looks fine), and upon investigating the Site folder created on MobileMe, the photo file has been resized to be 605 x 388 and now occupies 108K. After publishing from Computer B (where the image is contrasty and oversaturated), the dimensions of the file are still 605 x 388, but the size of the file when published from Computer B is 111K, so the file as published from Computer B is clearly different.
I'm guessing that this has something to do with how iWeb treats rescaling an image on one computer (or, maybe, version of Mac OS X or Quicktime?!?!) to another.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Thanks!
John

Old Domain Files- New hard Drive

Apple just replaced my 120gb hard drive in my Powerbook. Successfully transfered files from an external bootable clone. The clone was about a month old, but I also have regular backups on external drives, including iLife backups. Trouble is, I tried to use "Backup" to restore the incremental backups but the program seems to hang indicating that it is locating backups??? I'm looking right at the backups on two different external drives. I even clicked on the incremental backup to start the "Backup" program.
Please help getting the incremental backups added to my existing hard drive so that my files will be current? I'm very concerned that my domain files are not current, so I can't publish any new iWeb work. The Domain files on the new hard drive are not the most current--publishing will actually erase some of the published work currently on the web. Anyone?

Double clicking the incremental backup file should bring up the Backup 3 window. After a short pause you should get another window - iWeb Backup - or whatever you called your backup plan.
This window has a "Restore" button.

Please Help! Can't Find iWeb Domain File!

Hi! Need to know if I'm jacked up or if a miracle can occur!
I created a website in December using iWeb. Site was published and everything was fine. When I went to update it yesterday, it no longer shows up in iWeb! All of the supporting files are on my iDisk in the Web/Sites folder. However, when I searched for the domain in the ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb files and double-clicked it, a different site that I was training on opens up. The training site's supporting files are in their own folder on iDisk. Also, the training site was named differently than my published site. I did a search for all domains and opened them, but none are my published site.
Is there a way to get back the domain file or do I have to recreate the site again?
Any help is appreciated--thanks!

Roxanne, when I do a search via spotlight mine doesn't show up either. Your domain.sites2 file is likely seen as a system file. Have you done a search via finder for a filename 'domain' that is of the kind 'system'?
If not, then do this. From finder, select command+F. When the finder window opens, search 'this mac'. Click on the 'kind' button, and if it is available select 'system files'. If that is not an option, then at the bottom of the list select 'other'. That will open up a new menu of items to include under your search items. Scroll down until you find 'System files'. Select the check box to the right of 'System files' so that they will show up in your search results.
When you go back to your search window you will now be able to search for files with the name 'domain' in them. Select 'System Files' in the 'kind' drop down menu, and then make sure you select 'ARE INCLUDED' in drop down menu right next to where it shows 'system files'.
If you'd like, click on this link for a screen shot of my finder set up to search for a system file with name domain.
I hope it turns up for you!
http://www.indy-archer.com/downloads/finder_screenshot.jpg

Merge two domain files?

so i mainly work on my home computer with iWeb, but ended up having to create a site on my laptop. how or is there any way to merge or add it to my home computer domain file?
better question is to avoid this could the domain file live on my idisk and iWeb accesses it there?
thanks

effendrew wrote:
how or is there any way to merge or add it to my home computer domain file?
See this old thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9836922
NOTE 1 here may also be relevant:
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebTwocomputers.html
effendrew wrote:
better question is to avoid this could the domain file live on my idisk and iWeb accesses it there?
iWeb wouldn't be able to access the Domain file residing on your iDisk. I suppose there's a remote chance iWeb could access the Domain file residing on a +synced copy+ of your iDisk on your Mac's Desktop — but I wouldn't advise such complications.

Error when compressing domain file

This is probably a rare one, but I'll give it a shot anyway.
I just recently started getting an error message stating +"An error occurred adding "" to the archive"+ when compressing an iWeb domain file. Long story short, I pass this file back and forth with a business partner, and to help maintain its integrity, and to be able to upload it to and from iDisk, we compress it first.
Here's a screenshot of the error... http://gallery.me.com/airrocker#100141/Picture-201&bgcolor=black
Logging out and back in will allow the file to be compressed with no issues.
I'm running 10.5.8 and iWeb '09 v. 3.0.1. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

This is probably a rare one, but I'll give it a shot anyway.
I just recently started getting an error message stating +"An error occurred adding "" to the archive"+ when compressing an iWeb domain file. Long story short, I pass this file back and forth with a business partner, and to help maintain its integrity, and to be able to upload it to and from iDisk, we compress it first.
Here's a screenshot of the error... http://gallery.me.com/airrocker#100141/Picture-201&bgcolor=black
Logging out and back in will allow the file to be compressed with no issues.
I'm running 10.5.8 and iWeb '09 v. 3.0.1. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

Can't copy domain.sites from iDisk to harddrive

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.
How can I get my domain.sites file of the POS iDisk and back to my harddrive?
Thanks everyone

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.

Accidentally deleted domain files trying to create a second site...

This is my first post so please be merciful
I used the freeware iWebsites (that some of you know) and I was attempting to create another website with a different domain name for our church. I accidentally deleted the domain files BUT not before I published a backup to my desktop.
Now when you type the address:
http://web.mac.com/elementpicturesmaui/
You get the template for the church site:
http://web.mac.com/elementpicturesmaui/iWeb/New%20Site/Welcome.html
But this is the one I want to keep for my business:
http://web.mac.com/elementpicturesmaui/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
So how do:
1. I get the first address to go back to my third address.
2. Create a new web.mac.com address for my church
3. I guess also to delete that second address?
Thank you very much for taking the time to help.

So how do:
1. I get the first address to go back to my third address.
Modify the index.html file on the .Mac server. First, navigate to your iDisk files using the Go menu in Finder, and drag the index.html file to your desktop so that it is copied there.
Go/iDisk/MyiDisk/Web/Sites/index.html
Make a folder and place this copy inside for safekeeping. If anything goes wrong you can put it back on the iDisk.
Launch your Text Edit.app, and under preferences, in Text Edit, check the box for Ignore rich text commands in HTML files.
Now choose File/Open/iDisk/Web/Sites/index.html. You should see this (or something very close to it) in a Text Edit window:
You will change it to this:
Note that not very much changed here...just the name of the site in the url. Your old site is simply named, Site, in your iWeb application. You are just changing the index.html file to point to that site versus the New Site. So really, all you will do here is delete the word New in the index.html file. Now, File/Save. Not Save As...; just File/Save. Now your short .Mac url (web.mac.com/elementpicturesmaui/) should point to the correct site.
2. Create a new web.mac.com address for my church
You will need to buy a Domain name and forward it to your web.mac.com address; you could also use the .Mac hosting via a cname alias if you want. Purchase your Domain name from a registrar like Yahoo or GoDaddy.
3. I guess also to delete that second address?
You can delete these files from your iDisk by simply dragging them to the trash.
-Mark

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