Re: FP 2000 and Corrupted Files

From: JA (jarmour_at_kc.rr.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:08:05 GMT

The 4 new programs have had full read/write permissions set on their
folders. My ISP thinks maybe that conflicts with the FP extensions?

"JA" <jarmour@kc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:Ytz8d.58611$B51.45639@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com...
> Hi,
>
> I just installed 4 new asp/html programs on my FrontPage 2000 site. The
> company that makes them insisted that they need to be FTPed, rather than
> imported through FP, so FP wouldn't "change the code". I do use FTP at
> times, and it doesn't cause any problems, so I did it. Everything was OK,
> and I was trying to get the correct permissions set on the folders. I
hadn't
> opened anything in FP or Notepad (default for ASP pages), only in my
> browser.
>
> Suddenly, one of the four (interconnected) programs had broken images,
some
> pages pointing to a messed-up url (so did the images), and one of the
pages
> lost it's formatting (it's tables, it seems).
>
> I reinstalled the program, and eventually reinstalled them all. The other
3
> were ok, until suddenly the very same things started happening on another
of
> the programs.
>
> *After* it happened, I recalculated the hyperlinks. No change. I
reinstalled
> the programs. No change. I recalculated again. Nothing.
>
> The company that makes the programs are trying to blame it on FrontPage,
and
> it's re-writing of code. They have gone in, and say that the urls in html
> template pages have been changed. That could explain the bad urls, but not
> the lost formatting. Plus, I know FP can change code under certain
> conditions, but I've never heard of it changing a url!
>
> I am having my ISP check the FP extensions, although everything else seems
> to be working fine.
>
> I have another new little asp program. You enter your email address,
choose
> an option button, and press submit. You go to a page that redirects you,
> based on which option you chose. What is happening is that you go to the
> redirect page, and stay there, and it is blank. You shouldn't see the
> redirect page, except maybe for a quick second.
>
> Could the 2 problems be inter-related? Does anyone have any ideas if this
> could all be being caused by FrontPage?
>
> Thanks for any light you can shed,
>
> JA
>
>

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