Restoring iWeb /domain from Published Folders

Had a lightning strike and fried both my internal harddrive and my backup drive. Still 'might' be able to recover data from the external, but I'm looking for a work-around just in case.
Is there a way in iWeb (or using a 3rd party app) to convert published pages/folders back into something that iWeb can work with? I've read some older posts and it appears not, but thought maybe someone may have discovered a trick recently. Remaking them manually will be difficult, since the pages I created have many template modifications.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be glad to hear them. If not I may give up on iWeb altogether, and switch over to Dreamweaver permanently.

cwbishop wrote:
Had a lightning strike and fried both my internal harddrive and my backup drive.
Welcome to the discussions. A good reason to have iWeb Domain file backups offsite and/or on DVDs.
cwbishop wrote:
Is there a way in iWeb (or using a 3rd party app) to convert published pages/folders back into something that iWeb can work with? I've read some older posts and it appears not, but thought maybe someone may have discovered a trick recently.
It's not possible in iWeb and it's hard to imagine someone ever coming up with a 3rd party app to do that. You've probably already seen section 2.3 of this FAQ page which gives some tips on how to use published files, graphics, photos, etc., to help rebuild the site from scratch:
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebBackupretrieve.html

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