Online shop's been destroyed

[plenderj]

Righty.

Big problem with our online shop. The acatalog directory was deleted on the web hosting server, and now Actinic won't upload any data - or will only upload about a tenth of the files for the site. It won't upload the index or any other files either.

I've removed the SiteHTML folder locally, and tried regenerating the site, but then end up getting a myriad of other problems.


So.
How can I, from a given set of data that I can import into Actinic, recreate the entire online shop and upload from scratch ?

[plenderj]

From what I can tell, it seems to only generate HTML files that it figures may have changed since the last time they were generated.

So, and this is just my own little theory, if the database contained 3 items :

Product A, €45.00
Product B, €55.00
Product C, €65.00

And lets say the website's working okay and just fine.
Then the acatalog folder goes missing from the webhost.
I then import that lastest data file from our suppliers, and lets say the database then looks like this :

Product A, €45.00
Product B, €15.00
Product C, €65.00
Product D, €75.00

From what I can gather, when I select to update the website, Actinic will only generate files for Product B and Product D.
It will not bother to regenerate an index page or anything like that.

I suppose perhaps I could try over-writing the DB with a completely different set of data, and then re-import over that the proper data. That would in essence be telling Actinic that all the data is new...

[chrisbrown]

Are you using 'Refresh' or 'Update'? Refresh should upload the entire site whereas Update will only upload modified pages.

[plenderj]

Ahhh. There ya go.
Thank you very much