Location of iweb file

I purchased a new mac pro tower. I removed the drive from my previous mac pro tower and installed it in the new tower. I started the new mac pro tower and at the appropriate locaiton asked to have my previous files and settings transferred to the new computer. All seemed to work well until I started working with I web.
I opened I web and there was my site as it should be. I made changes and uploaded over several days. Still all is well. I then decided to work on my mac book pro while on vacation so I found the domain.sites2 file in the user folder (after having to make it visible on Lion) and copied it to my laptop. Upon opening it was the wrong file! I did several copies and all of the results were the same, some much older version of my site.
I removed the file from the new tower and opened iWeb and there was my site Still !! It did not take long to find that iWeb was using the file on my backup drive instead of the user folder on my new tower.
Somehow the utility to move data to a new computer did not move the file at it should have but told the new iWeb to use the file on the old drive.
This seems to be the only location you can report bugs?? Please post a reply if there is a better forum/location to report bugs.
David

In Lion the Finder folder is now invisible. To make it permanetely visible enter the following in the Terminal applicaiton window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
To opening your domain file in Lion for the first time or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an applicaiton.
Just launch the applicaiton, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. The script modifies the iWeb preference file when it's launched so one can open the domain file the first time under Lion or switch between domain files.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
OT

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what's the save location for iweb files?

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http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/iWeb-Tips.html
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Wyodor:
Thank you for the link. The information is very helpful and I have already moved the domain file as the article suggests. It works great.
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When I go to the program it doesn't show any files even though I know they were saved.
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Jeff

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Recently my harddrive crashed and i had to rebuild my computer. I retreived most of my files but i cannot find where my iweb files are located. Does anyone know where iweb saves files or how to retreive my domain files from the web (if at all possible)?
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AYetis wrote:
Could there be other location for the iWeb files?
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