IWeb file transfer

Hi all,
I've produced a website with iWeb'08 on my old mac book (mac os 10.4.11) a couple of years ago. Does anyone know how to transfer the iWeb file from this mac to a newer one (with mac os 10.6 and iWeb'09). I've tried a few times, but wasn't successful so far. Any ideas?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Will you be using both Macs to manage the web site or just the new Mac? If it's both this MacWorld article might be of interest: Managing an iWeb site from multiple Macs.
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    Yes, you can transfer the files, but you will be unable to open them, because as you have found, new Macs have not shipped with iWeb installed on them for a long time now - iWeb as you may or may not know is very old software now that has not been sold or supported by Apple for at least 3 years.
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    How to transfer iweb files from one mac to another?
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    I saved the folder I published to, and transferred it to my new mac, but it won't open in iweb on the new computer. There seems to be no option to "save as" in the iweb on the old computer, so I can't find where the iweb files are to transfer them. Can anyone help?
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    D

    I hope you still have your old mac!!! It sounds like you do...
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