My Webs folder corrupted?

How can Frontpage just plain refuse.....

[Sabanity]

Ok, here's what happened. Saturday night I finish working on the new layout for the company website. Shut down the machine and we all leave. Next day at about noon the gals simply press the button to turn on the system and it hangs. It's been doing that off and on for about a month. No viruses, no errors in scandisk (windows version), defrag'd hard drive.

I cannot open my pages from the C:\My Documents\My Webs at all. I can open them from cd backup or other folders on the hard drive. So at this point of doing all diagnostics that I can think of with Norton and Windows 98se I find that there were the usual windoctor broken links found and fixed but nothing else. I have used the Repair install with Frontpage 2000 and an uninstall and clean install of the program. I got caught up to where I was and put the new files in the C:\My Documents\My Webs folder and they won't open. The program just hangs on the hourglass and stops responding.

Any clues at all? I know that there can still be a bad sector on the hard drive on or around that folder and the last thing to do would be an fdisk and redo of the system. We are avoiding the redo as there are at least 4 people that use that computer in that office (small office and it's the best we have)

Any help would be appreciated. I'm hoping it's just a Frontpage 2000 issue and easily fixable but I am not a FP guru as I am more used to working with DW.

Thank you in advance. </screaming_crying_kicking>

[justa]

Are you trying to open the pages in the browser or in Frontpage when it hangs?

[brotherhood of LAN]

I use Frontpage, glad to say this hasnt happened though similar annoying things have

1. try copying and pasting the web folder contents to your desktop and run it from there

If all else fails make a new folder elsewhere, then copy and paste the html to the pages of your new folder. The hardest thing with this is retaining the directory structure and file names so your directory structure still works

OR

If you havent updated (or updated much) you can get some software to copy the contents of your published web site on the web to a local folder on your hard drive

hope this helps in some way!

[Sabanity]

Yea, the directory structure can be a problem. I made a My Webs Backup folder and copied the contents sub directly to My Documents (without the root of My Webs in it but recreated it, then copied all subfolders there, then deleted the files from the my webs, not folders but just files. Then put in the new site (new layout for the same 115+ page site), worked on it friday night, saturday afternoon and evening, shut down..... you know the rest. I can do all that but man, for the life of me I haven't had to deal with corrupt files and such a situation since Win3.11 7 years ago.

Thanks for the suggestion. Now all I have to do is figure out why it happened and still happens. That's what made me think bad sector. But usually with that you can't write to the drive in that area? The files will open in IE but not in FP.

[Xoc]

If you can't do anything with the file, then rename the folder. Create a new folder. Copy the files back into it.

[bill]

If this is not strictly a disk based web, you've probably messed up your PWS's FP server extensions by copying and pasting stuff all over the place. In FP it is best policy to publish your webs to new locations.

Try a full reinstall of FP and see if that doesn't fix things. Otherwise I'd suggest looking thru the MS KB [support.microsoft.com] to see if they have any solutions on file.

[Sabanity]

the folder in which I keep the website on the comp at work is just there fore updating dated pages and content, then I put it up on the server via ftp. I'm going to try the renaming of the My Webs folder if it doesn't mess anything up there. I haven't thought of touching it in that manner before.

Bill, I'm going over to the kb now. I did a full install sunday and it didn't work. Thanks for the tips guys.