Publish Error Workaround - Manually Publish to .Mac

If you are having problems publishing your iWeb sites, you can manually publish to .Mac and still get all of the special .Mac-only features by following these steps:
1) Choose "Publish All to .Mac" from the file menu.
2) As soon as you get the message that your site upload will continue in the background, open Applications > Utilities > Terminal
3) In Terminal type:
open /var/tmp
4) A Finder window will open. Find the folder called "folder.SomeNumber". Open it and then open the TemporaryItems folder. In it should be several folders called com.apple.iWebSome_LongNumber. In one of them you will find a folder called "sites" that contains all of your sites from iWeb ready to upload to .Mac.
5) Copy (Option-Drag) this "sites" folder to your desktop
6) Now you can upload the contents of that folder to the proper location on your iDisk (the correct path is iDisk/Web/Sites/iWeb/)
I hope this helps some of you get your sites published. It worked for me.
-Chad

Hi geebee - bit long winded but this is the full fix that I wrote up for someone else - it worked for them so good luck.
1. To create a new login, open system preference folder and open accounts. Unlock by clicking on the padlock icon. Now click on the plus icon which will allow you to create a new login name and password. Tick allow user to administer computer. Lock the padlock again and close window.
2. Go to apple logo top left of screen and logoff your username - you will be prompted shortly with choice of logins and choose the new one - you get a fresh screen which looks like when you first switched on the mac. You can test iweb here by publishing any old template to see if it works. It should do. Assuming all is ok, this next is how to publish your existing site.
3. Go back to your normal login. Find the domain file and copy it to dvd - domain file can be found as follows: open finder > click on house icon (yourname) >click on library >click on application support >click on iweb and here you will find domain file - copy it.
4. Log out and log on to new login again - find domain file in this system and delete it then in its place put your copy domain file from the dvd. When you open iweb in this system you should see your web files and hopefully you should now be able to publish them. This is where I succeeded.
5. If successful I have since discovered that you can do the reverse - ie. delete the domain file from your main login - copy domain file from your new login and put it back in the original system. I found this shook off whatever the problem was. I have also discovered since that I seem to have lost some functionality in that the slide shows don't seem to work now so I guess I might have to rebuild some of the pages - but the important thing is it will now publish.
Hope you can follow this and hope you have the success I had. Let me know if there is anything else I can help with, and let me know if it works.
Auray
iMac duo Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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