Iweb photos won't publish

Photos look great in iweb but have "?'s" in the the boxes when I publish online. Been using iweb for two years never had a problem, done all I can thing of. Please help?

Have you tried asking this question in the iWeb forum? https://discussions.apple.com/community/ilife/iweb

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Some photos won't publish

i am using the Publish service (very cool!) to export photos to a specific location on my hard drive. the process is driven by a set of smart collections, and it all works great.
however, i have a handful of photos that won't publish -- they are sitting in the "new photos to publish" or "modified photos to re-publish" areas and they don't get published when i tell that collection to publish.
the publish service exports in JPEGs.
Some are NEFs, others are JPEGs, one is a PSD. All of the NEFs and JPEGs are virtual copies. the PSD is the original.
any ideas what's going on?

>@LKF: I can get CS3 to open files from LR 2, but it works differently than earlier LR releases. With LR 1.4 when I right clicked to edit in CS3 it gave me a choice of which version of the file to edit. It also paired the .psd file with the original .dng when I finished. Now with LR 2 it doesn't do either. Is this a design feature or is something hosed up.
Bug. Will be fixed in the next (first) update. For a workaround set Photoshop the be the secondary editor in the preferences and use it. If you are unclear on how to do this check here:
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b66d51/3
If you are really curious you can read a discussion of this and other 'Export to CS3' problems here:
mike beaumont, "Lightroom 2.0 will not export to Photoshop CS3" #1, 29 Jul 2008 12:30 pm
Your specific problem is discussed starting a couple of dozen (or so) messages into the thread.

IWeb still won't publish. At All. Tired and fed up

Hi, yesterday I posted a Help note saying that iWeb was refusing to publish my website. I got some advice back from James Tseng (thanks James) saying I should keep trying. Well, I have kept trying - this is a day later - and i still get the message: "An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/Site” when trying to publish.
It's like buying a new car that refuses to start. Every time I complain to the garage, they say: "Well, try again in a few hours time!". And the worst thing is about the above Apple message is that it gives you no idea what the problem is.
I have read James' suggestion and read web.mac.com/mark8heaton/iWeb/PublishErrorsHelp/Publish%20Errors%20Help.htm and l have managed to publish to a folder. But I'm not confident about following the other suggestions as I'm not a technical person. I also run my own business and don't have the time to keep trying all these alternatives. I bought what I thought was a professional package - iLife (iWeb) and a year's .Mac subscription; I spent three working days working on the website. Yet nothing works. It just doesn't publish. At all. At any time of day or night (I got up in the middle of the night to try again - but got the same error message again).
What am I doing with this half-cookedbaked product and service? It's completely unacceptable.
Answers? Suggestions? Before I go back to the London Apple store and politely request a refund...?
Thanks
ADrian
G4 867 Dual processor Silver Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi
Please don't cry, I'm sure you'll get sorted out - there's plenty of people on this forum that can give you good advice.
If you only bought subscription to .Mac yesterday are you sure it's up and running? Try logging in to your account on
http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/Welcome.woa/wa/login?aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en
If you can't log in then you'll not be able to publish.
If you can log in you can get some info about your account by clicking on the little house symbol at the left of the blue header bar ... I'm looking at mine now and the system status window does state that today "Web Services were unavailable for 2 hour(s) to all .Mac Members." Doesn't say between what times though.
Your iDisk is basically your personal storage space on Apple's Servers (.Mac).
When you (finally) publish your iWeb site, the uploaded files will go into certain folders on iDisk.
The iDisk on your desktop is just a copy of the iDisk on .Mac
The two iDisks synchronise with each other whenever you make changes:
You can manually make changes and add files to iDisk on your desktop, and it will synchronise with the one on .Mac - you can set it to do this either manually or automatically.
Hope that all makes sense.

IWeb still won't publish

Too bad they tied iPhoto to iWeb, because it just isn't working. It used to be so simple and easy to publish. Now I can't get iweb to work no matter what. I have deleted all the files (iweb)on my dot mac (read that helped someone else around here) I have taken my G5 off the router and gone direct to the broadband hook-up in my house (that helped someone else). No good. iweb hangs every single time. I had published about 5 times since I upgraded a month or two ago. The past week, it will not work.
Any idea why this is happening? I see other threads on it and suddenly things seem to start working. Is Apple messing and locking off bandwidth or something?

Mark.... two things always get in the way when publishing. Bandwidth/cpu usage and preference files that are corrupt.
PREFERENCE FILE CORRUPTION
First... if iWeb is open, save your changes and quit... then follow this path to Hard disk/users/username/library/application support/iweb/DOMAIN
When you get to the DOMAIN file, click on it once while holding down the CONTROL key.
Select SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS.
Inside this first folder, or an interior folder you will find a file called "assets.username.plist"
username in this file will be replaced by your user name on your local computer.
Drag this file to the trash and throw it away. if you preferences file is not corrupted it will be rewritten when you reopen the application, if it is corrupted, which appears to happen a lot, it prevents you from uploading successfully.
BANDWIDT/CPU usage.
I've personally found that using your bandwidth, or someone else in your house using your bandwidth, can cause "time out" issues with an upload. I'm suspecting that it's at Apple's end, and that their server times people out if they don't recieve data in a minute or two. So.... if your spouse or kid is surfing the net, or downloading songs from itms.... then it will cause a publishing error. It's happened to me.
CPU usage also will cause your computer to slow, especially those of us in the g4 camp. So turn everything else off. Also... go to your system preferences and set your screen saver to NEVER, along with your energy saver settings to NEVER. Both of these didn't play well with iWeb 1.0, and still seem to cause problems with 1.1
Well, that's it, these two have always worked for me. and I publish a large (1gig) site.
Jim
20" Imac 1ghz (lmpstd), Mini, G4 Dual 1.8, G4 400, 12" Powerbook, ibook, eMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

IWeb 08 won't publish

iWeb 08 version 2.0.4
I was registered with MobileMe and had a MacMail email account, but when Apple decided to end MobileMe and replace with iCloud, my IT person said not to upgrade to iCloud as there could be conflicts with my software.
I managed to retain my MacMail accounts which are working fine now, and I did follow the instructions for iWeb before the changeover.
Since the changeover from MobileMe to iCloud, I find that I can no longer publish iWeb, and when I try to access my website on Safari it comes up with 'Service not available'.
I have been in touch with my IT person and my web hosting company and have spent the last few days trying to get this sorted, all to no avail.
When I try to publish my iWeb site, a dialog box comes up with 'Publish your website to MobileMe" and then it takes me to iCloud and of course it cannot be published. Does this mean I'll never be able to make any more changes to my website? I could just live with that, or would it be worth considering upgrading to iWeb 09 or is that very painful? I'm very concerned that if I did upgrade to iWeb 09 from 08, that all my pages might change drastically.
Hope someone can help me please through this very traumatic time.
Thanks

Its hardly worth your while upgrading to iWeb V3 since a lot of the features are redundant now that MobileMe has closed...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/mountain-lion.html
For less than the cost of an out of date iLife disk with iWeb V3 you can buy a new application that is actually being developed!
In the meantime, publishing your website to a local folder has the added advantage of allowing you to add tags for SEO ...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Tags.html
... and optimize your files for faster download...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Optimize.html

My iWeb site won't publish

Figuring I've seen some reasonably nice looking sites published via iWeb, and having all the tools supposedly integrated to incorporate podacasts, movies, etc., AND having been a .Mac/Mobile Me subscriber since 2005, with rather little relative benefit compared to other cloud/hosting services I could have used, I decided to give iWeb and Mobile Me a spin with a real project, something sort of arty. So, fine, I have created a Site, and created decent workflows for a very frequent podcast, and hit the "Publish" button.
And waited.
As typically happens with me, I have added a challenge to this mix, in that I have another domain which I would like hosted via MobileMe, so I looked up the directions for the redirect, and dutifully edited the DNS registry for that domain to get aliasing (CNAME: web.me.com.) to work, which according to everything I can see, has. Two days have now passed, and still no site on either the MobileMe address or the aliased domain.
I believe I have done everything correctly. ANy suggestions as to how I can get my site up and running?
Thanks in advance!

Here's how to have multiple sites in a single MMe account with one or more sites having a domain name.
A. All sites are in the same Domain.sites2 files
1 - only one site can use the CNAME method of domain name forwarding and it must the top site in the left hand pane of iWeb.
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2 - the other sites must use URL domain name forwarding which directs the domain name to the site's full MMe URL, http://web.me.com/MMe_Username/Site_Name, or, if there is no domain name, just MobileMe's full URL.
B. Each site is in its own Domain.sites2 file.
Again, only one site can use CNAME forwarding. This presents a problem since CNAME forwarding directs the domain name to the basic MMe account URL: http://web.me.com/MMe_Username/ which uses an index.html file in the root folder of the account, iDisk/Web/Sites. Each time a new site is published or an existing site uses the File->Publish Entire Site a new index.html file is created in that root directory, iDisk/Web/Sites folder, directing the browser to that particular site. This file is what the CNAME method uses to find the site it represents. Therefore some steps must be taken to assure that the index.html file in the MMe Accounts root directory always points to the correct site. This can be accomplished is three ways.
1 - don't use the CNAME method. Just use URL forwarding . This, IMO, is the simplest method as it doesn't requre any additional effort on the user once the domain name has been set up.
2 - use the following method suggested by Wyodor in this topic: Is it possible to have multiple sites when using ur Domain name?
In iWeb domainfile 1:
Create a dummy site : _dummy
with a blank page.
Create your working site : Whatever
Add pages
Publish both Sites to the same same location on the same server.
Your _dummy site is now the default Site.
Check.
In iWeb domainfile 2:
Create/Use your CurrentSite.
Move a page to the top of the Site and back. Publish the Site.
iWeb will create a new index.html file in the root of the server and from now on CurrentSite is the default site.
Check.
From now on, never move your Whatever Site to the top of the list in the iWeb sidebar and never change the page in the _dummy site.
Simply do not touch your _dummy ever again. And never forget that.
3 - use Ethmoid's suggested method in Using two sites - setting one up with separate domain? or republishing the entire site that uses CNAME forwarding. Just making a minor change and publishing the site changes does not create a new index.html file.
The entire site must be republsihing in order to get that new site.
Or keep a copy of the CNAME site's index.html file on your Mac and replace it manually in the iDisk/Web/Sites fodler when necessary.
NOTE: the CNAME method provides a shorter URL: http://www.Domain_Name.com/Site_Name/Page_Name. CNAME does not have masking.
The URL forwarding displays the full MMe URL:   http://web.me.com/MMe_Username/Domain_Name/Page_Name.   With domain name masking that will be shortened to:   http://www.Domain_Name.com for every page of your site.
However, with masking visitors will only be able to bookmark and enter at the first page of the site. If a page is refreshed the visitor is taken back to the first page. Also search engines will only be able to index the first page of the site.
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IWeb suddenly won't publish

All of a sudden, when I try to publish my site, .mac tells me to sign in. I type in my password, but nothing happens. Please help!

I have been having this problem for the past month.
My iWeb sites are published to Mobile Me. I update them at least once a day. Every week...usually on a weekend, I have experienced the same error described in this thread. The fact that is almost always happens on a weekend is suspicious. The only other time it happened was at 5AM on a Monday morning.
I have stopped believing that it is somehow related to an error on my computer. I tried deleting preferences in both places (the "ByHost" folder that is inside the user's Preferences folder and the regular iWeb preferences file inside the user's Preferences folder. I can publish to a folder and then drag the files to my iDisk without any problem. In the end, if I wait long enough, the problem seems to go way.
I can't be sure, but I believe this problem began when I upgraded from Mac OSX 10.5.7 to 10.5.8.
To the people who have been having this problem, I can only say that I don't think the problem lies with you and your software.

IWeb updates won't publish to my mobile me domain. Help!

Part of my site successfully posted, and several updates successfully posted as well. But recently when I've logged on to the URL independently my site does not show these updates. When I "visit my site" from iWeb, all looks good. Also, at some point I was able to make the site private (password required), but this does not show up when I log on independently.
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Are you emptying the browser cache before visiting the published website? Either that or add a ? at the end of the URL.
Dragging a media file onto an iWeb page requires that it load with the web page in the browser and also that the visitor have the QuickTime plugin. Uploading the files via FTP to the server and calling them up with some code allows the webpage to load faster. You can also set the media players to play the files in all browsers and devices.
Flowplayer, for example, is really easy to implement for both Audio and Video but the media files and the player assets have to be uploaded to the server.
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http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Upload.html
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IWeb photos won't download to download folder

I've enabled downloading on a few of my photo pages, here's one: http://gobophoto.com/GoboPhoto/Divas_%26_Dames.html However, when I click the download button, it doesn't send the photo to my download folder. It just opens a larger picture on a new page. What do I need to do to get the photos to drop right into the download folder when that button is clicked?

No, you've not done anything incorrectly. Unfortunately that's how iWeb works. In iWeb the only way to get a file to download when a link to it is clicked on is to have that file zipped or compressed. The iWeb slideshow coding does not do that.
The MobileMe galleries allows photos to be downloaded directly to your hard drive but it's coded for that: MobileMe Gallery - Space Station Photos
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IWeb 08 won't publish my site when "private" - "Publish Error"

I have created two sites in iWeb. The first is for general viewing, the second (still under construction) is to be restricted by "Make my published site private" username and password. I can publish both sites as "open sites" without problem, but when I try to publish after I check the privacy box for Site 2, I get a "Publish Error" during the publishing process. Any thoughts appreciated.

Welcome to the discussions. This Apple doc may help:
MobileMe: Troubleshooting iWeb publishing issues
And perhaps the "Fix iWeb" section here:
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebTips.html
If not, MobileMe live chat support is now 24/7 — see this announcement. Other Apple support options are here.

IWeb 08 won't publish my website

I haven't used it in a while, now I am trying to build my website again,
but I keep getting an error, my .mac account is up to date and I use my .mac email daily.
Where can I start troubleshooting?
Thanks,
Alex N.

This solved the problem:
Quit iWeb, go to Home Folder/Library/Preferences and delete the com.apple.iWeb.plist.
Relaunch by double clicking the domain file for the site that is causing you problems.
Please let all the users know this solution.

Won't Publish

I deleted an entry from my Blog by going to the entries page and simply clicking Delete entry. Now I try to Publish the site again so that the changes occur, but I get a message saying that there was an error publishing. So it just won't work. What am I to do?
thanks

i can only tell you i have had very bad luck making iWeb publish. I could tell a few things that seemed to have helped other people:
1. discount a router if you are one, direct connect to your high speed connection (if you have one)
2. delete the preferences. See other post here for directions. See the 'iWeb Still Won't Publish' thread.
3. do not have any other network activity going on. No iTunes, no mail, no downloads ETC.
4. reinstall.

TS2167 I put some audio and photos on my iWeb but it won't publishing thru. What can I do?

I put some audio and photos on my iWeb but it won't publishing thru. What can I do?

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Iweb is leaving out photos when I publish...

iweb won't publish all the photos in an album. It is leaving out any new images I am trying to add. Blank spots for some and question marks for others. Any ideas? Thanks.

Publish your site to a folder on your hard drive and check it locally with Safari to see if the photos are present. If they are then we know it's an uploading issue. It they are not in the local version it's an iWeb issue.
Have you tried the File ➙ Publish Entire Site menu option?
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Error message when I try to publish an iWeb photo album with audio to Mobileme:

I get the following error message when trying to publish a photo album with audio from iWeb to Mobileme. I've checked my account and I have plenty of available space on Mobileme and have logged in there.
An error occurred while publishing file “/private/var/folders/qg/qg-Qwo-82RWdDU+8ZNhusU+++TI/TemporaryItems/com.apple.i Web_9121_TEMP_344183369_3/sites/Site/Grand_Canyon_11_Slideshow_part_1_2_files/or iginal_2.jpg”. Try publishing again later.
Is there a problem with my photos or other content (I've added some songs to play in the slideshow)
Dan H.

First see if you can publish your site to a folder on your hard drive. You can select the folder by clicking on the site's folder in iWeb and using the Publish To: menu.
If that's successful try the following:
delete the iWeb preference files, com.apple.iWeb.plist and com.apple.iWeb.plist.lockfile, that resides in your Home() /Library/Preferences folder.
go to your Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete its contents.
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launch iWeb and try again.
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