Publish Export Problem

[CrashMatRob]

Hi,
I have been publishing a site with no problems in the past,"file publish website"
but all of a sudden it as stopped publishing and coming up with a export problem.
So this is what I do
file - publish website
"you need to export the site first" OK to a temp folder, (this works ok and the site in the temp folder works)
but then WDMX "error you must export your website before you can publish"
After a dozen attempts with changing some settings still not working

I have read the thread "Export and Upload probs"

is this a common problem?

Cheers Rob

[gwpriester]

Not a problem. It is the method Xara uses.

Even though you are publishing your site to the web, Xara published first to your computer and then publishes these files to the server. Yes, it's an extra step and a bit of bother, but that is just the normal publishing process.

If you have opted to publish changed files only, Xara compares the files published to your computer to those on your web host's server to determine what has changed.

[CrashMatRob]

Thank you for your reply,

But the problem is that the website does not publish, it shows the error above in the pic, you click OK and return to WDMX without publishing.

[gwpriester]

Hmm.

OK. I just tried to publish a current site and got the first message then the second.

Have you checked your publish settings in Website Properties > Publish to see if anything has changed?

I have not encountered this problem but there are always things that crop up for unknown reasons.

Try copying a page and pasting the page in a new website document.

Then using your current settings see if you can publish the page. You don't need to go beyond the saving your file stage. If this is successful then there might be something that is corrupting your file.

[CrashMatRob]

OK I have sorted it now,

Done what you said Gary with 2 pages, latest page and older page, but the problem was still occurring, not publishing.
Now then I had been exporting the site to "C:\temp\export" for some reason it did not like this location, so changed to a export folder on the desktop and all working now.

Thanks for your help Gary.

[gwpriester]

Doesn't sound like I was all that helpful, but I'm glad it worked out.