NOT CATALOG folder missing

[oracle]

With the first site I built in v8 using a design created in Dreamweaver, Actinic created a folder called NOT CATALOG and placed all my dreamweaver files in there.

I have just started building a new site using v8.0.2 (which I have now upgraded to v8.0.3) and I have noticed that there is no NOT CATALOG folder this time.

Before I upgraded to v8.0.3 the images importing didn't go too smoothly and I had to manually copy all the design images into the Site folder.

Has the NOT CATALOG folder been scrapped?

It seems to be working mostly ok but I am having a problem with any CSS styles that use a background image. These images don't show up in the page preview and I have had to upload them manually to get them to work on the site itself.

[RuralWeb]

Actinic created a folder called NOT CATALOG

Its never done this in any of my sites I just bung the images in the site1 folder as we did with V7 and jobs done.

[completerookie]

I am one of the guilty owners of the NOT_CATALOG directories and the entries contained therein are normally images that are being used within products that reside outside the Site1 (or equivilent) directory and its sub-directories.

At the moment, I'm playing and I click on any image that pops into my head. that includes ones that are "off site1"
when you play with snapshots and re-import them, it tells you that some of your images are "off site1" and offeres to fix their paths.

It seems that "oracle nd ruralweb are perfect whereas I am not !

[completerookie]

I forgot to add, I think background images contained within css are not automatically detected, and that you have to add them to "additional files". Those "additional files" are then uploaded to the web.
I don't think they are uploaded to the internal preview directory and you need to transfer those by hand - another buggette??

[pinbrook]

I am one of the guilty owners of the NOT_CATALOG directories and the entries contained therein are normally images that are being used within products that reside outside the Site1 (or equivilent) directory and its sub-directories.

this is correct, if you keep any content outside of site1 then a snapshot should put all this content into NOT CATALOG

[RuralWeb]

then a snapshot should put all this content into NOT CATALOG

Ah I understand now - its at the snapshot stage that this is happening. This is good and an improvement on V7 BUT to make life much much easier the habit of always putting images in site1 is IMO the best.

[RuralWeb]

don't think they are uploaded to the internal preview directory and you need to transfer those by hand - another buggette??

Dont think so - keep them in site1 and this will not happen. The vast majority of image problems like this are related to images being outside the site1 folder.

[completerookie]

its like I said, I'm just playing, pointing clicking (not caring which images were on a particular page) and seeing what happens - hence so many problems

out of habit, any images for the real site always goes into a SINGLE directory. this way, there are never any name conflicts which could/may occur when you use more than one directory.

I'm still not 100% convinced about all required files are automatically copied to the preview directory - I'll keep an eye on that one but I hear what you say.

[pinbrook]

I must admit I put all my stuff into site1 as it gives me an easy life.

Images referenced within css need to have single quotes around them to get uploaded.

and no not all images get copied to PreviewHTML for local viewing, often you need to copy them there yourself, although I don't know the circumstance under which they don't get copied (I use Norman's collapso menu and part of his instruction is to manaully copy the images into PreviewHTML)

[completerookie]

Images referenced within css need to have single quotes around them to get uploaded

thats a new one, needs to go in to the AUG - its the advanced user that needs to know this.

[cdicken]

Yep - I'll add this one in.

[oracle]

I'd forgotten that background images in stylesheets needed to be in single quotation marks - you did point that out a couple of months back Jo, thanks for reminding me.

I created a snapshot, imported the snapshot, removed all my design graphics from the Site folder, did a purge and refresh and everything seems to have worked fine. My CSS styles are working, I have a NOT CATALOG folder and I didn't need to copy any images into the Site folder or add any files via Additional Files. Yippee! Seems like Actinic has managed to import all the files from my Dreamweaver folder without any manual intervention.

I found out when building the last site that this process works much better if you put all your design graphics in the root Dreamweaver site folder and not inside a separate folder called 'images'.

Thanks for the help guys.