Xara DPX19 cannot Download All or anything into Local Design Gallery

[browj2]

Hi Acorn,

Yes, I have done Download All several times over the last year, but it has not worked for me for a few months now. John E. Baker on the Magix.info forum noted that he managed to get a download of a missing item and " it took ages to download measured in single figure B/s."

I still have problems getting to the OCC, so I finally, just now, programmed CTRL+Alt+Shift+K to a button on my ShuttlePro.

I have imported a few of the missing tables, but how does one add these to the Local Designs Gallery?

[Acorn]

Hi Acorn,
Yes, I have done Download All several times over the last year, but it has not worked for me for a few months now. John E. Baker on the Magix.info forum noted that he managed to get a download of a missing item and " it took ages to download measured in single figure B/s."
I still have problems getting to the OCC, so I finally, just now, programmed CTRL+Alt+Shift+K to a button on my ShuttlePro.
I have imported a few of the missing tables, but how does one add these to the Local Designs Gallery?

John, I didn't realise that Magix had mangled the OCC service that much.

The simplest method would be to put your items into \ local folder and use Disc designs button to add this local folder to the Local Designs gallery.
When you do this a file and a folder are created.
The file is catindex.txt with a commented first line identifying its path.
The folder is xarinfo and is blank but should hold PNG thumbs of your XAR files.
To get these thumbs, you right-click on the blue folder and pick Generate thumbs > Standard sizes or what ever you need.

If you want to get the XARs into the correct Xara folder, you need to identify the path from the OCC.
You might then have to add to the current catindex.txt file, the detail you created earlier and cross-load in the PNGs to the existing xarinfo folder if Generate thumbs is not available.

I hope this covers the issues you may face.

Acorn

[StewKriti]

Hi - I have Xara Web Designer Premium 19.0.0.64291 and have had to reinstall the program due to SSD failure...I had previously downloaded all the content to page & gallery layout but didn't realise the reinstall would overwrite the files in local user files...
Like everyone else I am unable to renew update (expired 27th July) and this website is a community project (neapoli-crete.com) and we cannot afford to subscribe on yearly basis at this time. I have now lost all the templates, photo frames, components etc. etc.
Is there any way of downloading the content from somewhere?

Many Thanks

Stewart

[handrawn]

I think the best option is to ask Xara if they can help you, via the chat on xara.com

[StewKriti]

Hi - messaged Xara and had good offer of subscription as non-profit site but need to see if I can get some funding for project...

I have done a search for catindex.txt and windows explorer found 398 files in total...I found the templates for my websites and the one I use is the non-profit one (see screenshot) and one is named OLD and this catindex :-
# @PREVIEW
# Folder Revision:58550
non-profit_about_page.xar, About Page, , P,,,,,,2049572856
non-profit_blank_page.xar, Blank Page, , P,,,,,,3768031280
non-profit_contact_page.xar, Contact Page, , P,,,,,,23930594
non-profit_gallery_page.xar, Gallery Page, , P,,,,,,1548940434
non-profit_index_page.xar, Index Page, , P,,,,,,339414610
non-profit_news_page.xar, News Page, , P,,,,,,3437109315
non-profit_teams_page.xar, Teams Page, , P,,,,,,428910800
non-profit_website.xar, Website, , P,,,,,,594592152

The template does not show up when I load the site or any other files I had downloaded before SSD failed?

Many Thanks

Stewar

[Acorn]

Stewart, my catindex.txt is the same apart from the '# @PREVIEW' statement, which is probably saying Xara needs you to access the Online Content Catalogue.

You need to search for your Cache files, the path would be C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Xara\XtremeProSu b\Sub\Cache\designs\eng\websites\businesswebsites\ nonprofit\ to find the text file.
If you have the design files, they will be in the same folder.

if you had other version back to v17, you could look there as the design has not changed since March 2020.

Acorn

[StewKriti]

Hi acorn, many thanks will post how I get on...have seen v18 for 20 euros but didn't realise they would be compatible with program.

[Initiostar]

Hi - I have Xara Web Designer Premium 19.0.0.64291 and have had to reinstall the program due to SSD failure...I had previously downloaded all the content to page & gallery layout but didn't realise the reinstall would overwrite the files in local user files...
Like everyone else I am unable to renew update (expired 27th July) and this website is a community project (neapoli-crete.com) and we cannot afford to subscribe on yearly basis at this time. I have now lost all the templates, photo frames, components etc. etc.
Is there any way of downloading the content from somewhere?

Many Thanks

Stewart

Is this the site we are talking about: https://www.neapoli-crete.com/index.htm? It looks like your site started life as a Not-for-Profit template but moved on significantly from that template with the addition of a mobile variant and new page formats. Other than the colour theme and some minor elements, you could, if you had to, start from scratch. The NfP template (with a modified Navbar to show a submenu as per your current site) is here:

Not-for-Profit.xar

Other than being a time-consuming exercise you could likely rebuild / reverse engineer your published site via access to the source code objects. Did your reinstall overwrite the backups in App Data/Local /Xara/ XtremePro/19/Backups?

In terms of other components, your site has a couple of Accordion sliders, but they can be replicated too.

Not a help to you right now, but I save all my design files and the Designs cache to OneDrive.

[StewKriti]

Hello Initiostar, Thanks for the advice and link to NFP file...

The NFP template that came with the web site designer v19 I purchased already had the mobile variant configured - that was one big reason I chose to use this website template as the basis for the site. The xar file you kindly linked to does not include the mobile variant. There were other website templates that I also downloaded in case other people wanted designs making - although TBH as a novice user this site took me a lot longer than I thought! It is just so frustrating that I am unable to gain access to these components that were downloaded and included in my purchase from Xara via Magix...I have all these listed but there is no content and as you suggested using a backup file I had hoped that these dependencies would have installed when I opened the backup - but no such luck! I have tried to attached screenshots of the trees but only to upload the one?

[Initiostar]

Hello Initiostar, Thanks for the advice and link to NFP file...

The NFP template that came with the web site designer v19 I purchased already had the mobile variant configured - that was one big reason I chose to use this website template as the basis for the site. [1]The xar file you kindly linked to does not include the mobile variant. There were other website templates that I also downloaded in case other people wanted designs making - although TBH as a novice user this site took me a lot longer than I thought! It is just so frustrating that I am unable to gain access to these components that were downloaded and included in my purchase from Xara via Magix...I have all these listed but there is no content and as you suggested using a backup file I had hoped that these dependencies would have installed when I opened the backup - but no such luck! I have tried to attached screenshots of the trees but only to upload the one?

[1] Relatively easy to provide you with a updated template that has a mobile variant if that helps?

[2] Do you have digital access to the original photos and videos? If not, and assuming you have FTP access to your site, you can download the folder "index_htm_files". This will have the photos and videos on your site - you would need to give them meaning names, but they should all be there.

[3] The site is working right now, so you have time to reconstruct it in the background if you need to; you have a Facebook page you can use to supplement the current website content.

I agree it is disappointing to lose access to the online catalogue, but there is not much on your site that cannot be reconstructed without it; there are alternatives where necessary too.

The challenge is that all this is time-intensive.