Moving a site to a new computer (all)

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I just moved my sites to a new computer. When I go to publish a single changed page from this new machine, FP thinks EVERY page needs to be published, which is not the case. Right now I’m dragging the changed pages to publish them (using File | Publish, and dragging the changed files), but this is an invitation to error.

What do I need to do to set every page to “up to date”? a little VBA?

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I have no idea where this information is stored, but I eventually just let FP publish the whole site again to avoid those irritating messages. (Non-HTML assets, such as PDFs, seem to generate many more of those irritating messages for some reason.)

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What version of FP? Do you have IIS installed and you are publishing it locally? OS Windows 2000/XP? Or are you publishing it to a web server externally? If you publish the external site down to your hard drive and save the files there – when you publish again it will compare and publish only the updates you have made (and not the entire site.)

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1. 2002
2. no, and no
3. XP
4. yes
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If you publish the external site down to your hard drive and save the files there

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[/indent] That looks like a clever new wrinkle ~ the target is first e.g., c:/someplace ? And the second is the remote site?

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Save a local copy to: C:Documents and SettingsyourUserNameMy DocumentsMy Webs
You publish your entire web (from within FP) to your local My Webs folder – then you should be able to configure from Tools | options | Publish
click ‘changed pages only’ and ‘determine changes by comparing source and destination webs’

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altho it’s too late ~ I already published the entire site ~ check me on my understanding: If I publish an entire web to “C:Documents and … My Websjunk” instead of to TheHostMachine, “the date problem” is fixed? The “local copy” is actually the web “source”…

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If you publish your web from within frontpage to mywebs (it is considered a local web) then this would be your base copy that would compare with the web copy. In that capacity FP would only have to compare edited/new pages then send the changed ones. I have only used ‘my webs’ once for a web site – and it did compare My Websmywebsite with the remote website. It only uploaded new or edited pages. Now I only use IIS because it simplifies the process for me (and I have also switched to Studio MX and GoLive.)

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