Uploading an older version of my site

[graememac]

Hi - i am having trouble uploading my site after making ammendment - the issue is basically that an older version of the site is being uploaded. I

ts very strange - as if none of the files in my SiteHTML folder are being uploaded. However, I cannot resolve the issue and have resorted to manually uploading from my SiteHTML folder to the /acatalog folder via FTP - i know something is up - can anyone enlighten me

Graeme Mackay

[jont]

Are you making the changes inside Actinic or manually changing the generated files?

If you are changing the same files your are uploading via FTP then these are changed outside of Actinic and it will not know that changes have been made.

[graememac]

Hi - I am uploading outside Actinic because a site refresh or upload will not update my site correctly - older versions seem to be uploading. However, when upload from the SiteHTML folder via FTP (outside of Actinic) the correct pages are loaded??

[Mike Hughes]

Actinic creates the files in the sitehtml folder based on the templates and then uploads them to the server.

Are you editing the files in the sitehtml folder (wrong) or the templates (right) ?

Mike

[graememac]

Definitely the templates - however since upgrading to version 7.0.4 I get the following warning when attempting a site snapshot:

Warnings
The following files have been found in the site folder, these files have the same name as a generated file which is referenced by one or more templates.
fooddrink_supplements.html
Light_Heart_Single_Essences.html
Skin_Care_Products.html
Aus_bush_Single_Essences.htm
Living_Essences_Individuals.html
FlowerEssences.html
dessert_alchemy.html
Composite_Formula_Essences.html
South_African_Single_Essences.html
Original_Product_Range.html
FES_quintessentials1.html
Light_Heart_Flower_Essence_Combinations.html
Aus_bush_Comb_Essences.htm

Can you help here - not 100% what its telling me but I suspect a conflict of some kind

[Mike Hughes]

Sadly, a feature of actinic is that if you create a direct link within a template for navigation then actinic wants to copy the file linked to into the snapshot, even though it's a file that actinic creates itself.

Usually the error is that it cannot find that file, though these warnings are benign.

I can't think why it's looking in the sitehtml file for those files though.

If I were you I'd delete all the offending file names from the sitehtml folder. It appears that sometimes the 7.0.4 upgrader copies the wrong files in there (or the site1 folder?). See: http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=15380

Mike

[graememac]

Hi - so you mean i should delete all files that appear in the snapshot warning from my site 1 folder?? Will this deal with my first enquiry - that of older versions being uploaded

[Mike Hughes]

Yes, I would delete the offending files if they appear in the the site1 folder as the chances are that actinic is uploading them instead of from the sitehtml folder.

If you have any doubts then copy them into another folder before deleting them. Better safe than sorry.

Mike

[graememac]

Thanks - yes deleting seems to have done the trick - not quite sure why all the Site html file were thrown into the Acatalog folder though -