Opening Outer Layer from new site snapshot

[RuralWeb]

I have been playing with importing a V8 site snapshot with a custom DW outer layer into a new site.

I wanted to see if the design could then be exported back into DW to enable changes to be made to the outer layer - this simulates me getting a snapshot from a new client who has or has had another designer build the site and for whatever reason wanted me to carry on the design.

Based on my previous attempts to export the standard Actinic designs into DW I expected it to fail but it did not, it worked very well. I double checked some standard layouts and they opened showing the usual mess so what is the difference?

I cannot see why my design would export ok but all the Actinic designs fail - anyone else tried this yet.

[wjcampbe]

Malcolm,

Could your DW | Actinic be saving a setting | registry entry | flag somewhere that identifies the design to your machine?

May be worth having someone else attempt this with the same snapshot to verify - or obtain a second party snapshot to try yourself.

[RuralWeb]

Maybe - I will try it on a clean PC

[RuralWeb]

Just tried it on a PC that has never had Actinic on it and the outer layer opened perfectly in DW - so why dont Actinc standard designs do the same?