How I restore my iWeb site?

Hi!
I have made my site with iWeb one year ago.
Now I had to make fresh install of OSX so how can I restore all material
back to my empty iWeb?
Az

Unless you have a backup copy of the Domain.sites2 file that resided in your Users/Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder you will have to rebuild your site from scratch. Chapter 2.3 on the iWeb FAQ.org site has tips on using some of the existing files, image, audio, video, etc., from the published site in the creation of the new site.
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As you already found out you'll have to rebuild from scratch. However, Chapter 2.3 on the iWeb FAQ.org site has tips on using some of the existing image, audio and/or video files in the published site in the reconstruction of the site.
Also it might be a good time to develop a backup strategy.
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When you want to publish an iWeb site to some place other than MobileMe, then you publish to a folder of your choice on your hard drive and iWeb will create all the files needed. It will create one folder that has the same name that you called your website inside iWeb plus an index.html page. So if you called your site Site in iWeb, then when you publish to a folder, your folder will be called Site, plus the index.html page.
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THrough sheer ignorance, I created a "new Site" in iweb, not realizing it would replace my exiting website, which is far more important. I want to restore my old site. I am able to access the old site through idisk, but have no idea how to relink it so that it reappears as my website. (Someone suggested opening the index.html in plain text editor and correcting the URL, but I have no idea how to do that. Tried opening it in "text Edit" and no URL is there)
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The only inane question is the one not asked. The best way to backup your web site is to make a backup copy of your Domain.sites2 file that is in the User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder. Varkgirl has an Automator work flow that will copy it to another location of your choice. I believe you can find it on Varkgirl's iWeb Tips and Tricks site or use this link to directly download it: Click Here. I believe it makes a zipped copy of the domain file and moves it to the location of your choice. It can take a while depending on the size of your site.
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The disk doesn't know it's a website.
Your webpages have to be viewed in a Browser.
And as long they do not contain outside links, there's no need for an Internet connection.
Practice with a RW disk. Then you can erase the disk and start over.
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Anything I can do besides spending an entire day to rebuild from scratch?
By the way, how does Apple not recognize the ABSURDITY of not being able to save a file of your project?
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Unfortunately if you don't have a copy of the Domain.sites2 file you will have to rebuild your site from scratch. Chapter 2.3 on the iWeb FAQ.org site has tips on using some of the existing files, image, audio, video, etc., from the published site in the creation of the new site.
By the way, how does Apple not recognize the ABSURDITY of not being able to save a file of your project?
That's what backups are for, either for the whole drive or selected files/folders.
It's also RIDICULOUS that you buy the iweb software but apparently can only design and upload 1 website.
Where did you get that idea? I have domain files with 5 or 6 sites in them. However, only one can be published at a time. The capability of managing multisites in iWeb has been around since iWeb Version 1. Here's the contents of just one of my many Domain.sites2 files:
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I have just had to re-install OSX to my iMac. Bare metal restore.
In the process, I did not have a proper backup of my website created with iWeb. The site was published to both .MAC and to my proper domain name site.
I need to be able to use iWeb to edit and add to the site - however, I can find no way to get it back 'in' to the iWeb app, as the program always wants me to create a new site - or it quits.
How can I do this??
Thanks in advance,
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