Help! Lost all my data!

I saved my work then restarted my computer. I tried to re-open Iweb but it said that it needed a domain, it said domain.sites is not valid or something. I was trying to choose one but I didnt understand what it wanted me to choose. All of the sudden I guess it went back to default settings, now it opens but everything that I was doing, working on 3 sites (spent about a month on this so far), is gone. I did save it in folders but I don't know how to put it back on. How can I retrieve my work??

I just went through a real frustrating and similar issue.
iWeb stores key sets of info in different places:
1. The actual data files are the Domain.sites (or Domain.sites2 if you are in the iLife '08 version), which is located in the User->Library->Application Support->iWeb folder. That is the actual file that iWeb needs to access for things to work, and the file that I didn't back up properly before I updated to iLife '08 and lost all my website data in the switch.
2. Many of the preferences that make things behave poorly are in the preferences folder in your user library. Trashing the "com.apple.iWeb.plist" file can get rid of some preferences and help. It didn't do a thing for me, but reading the other posts, it helped some people. It's just a preference file, so iWeb will create a new one as soon as you open it back up.
3. There also seems to be bunch of the actual files created by iWeb on my iDisk in an aliased folder called "Web" but I'm not sure where the actual info resides. That Web folder contains a folder called "Sites" which contains folders for each of my published sites. Again, not sure where the actual info resides, or if it is necessary to back any of it up, but you might look into that if you know more about how .Mac shuffles its paperwork.
Good luck. In the end, it was much faster for me to just remake the few websites I had. I'm happier with the new versions anyway, but it still ****** me off to have to take the time to do it. It sounds like the Domain.sites file is the main one you need to back up frequently, but that probably won't help you now.
Steve

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