Where do the web files live prior to conversion to html?

[Ken Gaskell]

I think I am close to solving my own problem. I have discovered that though I have created my own web folders, it nonetheless saves the important file in a folder called "my web sites". Though interestingly, it doesn't have the ending .web instead it has the Web Designer 6 icon. That is the problem solved on my old computer which uses XP.

I am now searching my new computer which is Windows 7. I haven't found the file called "my web sites"; or its equivalent. When I have found it I will post it here. In the meantime, if anyone knows where it is, please point me in the right direction.

Ken

[steve.ledger]

By default, Windows does not show file extensions, this is very bad policy imho.. I recommend you enable file extension in folder options.

There's an incredibly cool and free tool to help find everything on your PC. Funnily enough it's called 'Everything'
Do a google search for 'download everything'
It's takes literally seconds to index your entire HDD, once done it's simple to find any file even using partial names and the * wildcard to file the spaces. ( example *site*.web will find everything which has the word 'site' in it no matter what the other letters are and which ends with the extension .web)

[zaphodeist]

Hope you don't mind me making a suggestion Ken. When saving .web [or .xar in XDP6] I put them in a folder I made specifically so I always know where they are. I'm not that tidy in non-virtual life though

[Ken Gaskell]

Eureka. I copied the “My Web Sites” folder from my old computer and pasted it into the "My Documents" folder on my new computer

I selected "open" in Web Designer 6, went to “My Web Sites” and inside there, clicked on the named folder I wanted. Inside there, I clicked on the name of the website. This didn’t end in .web but it did have the Web Designer 6 icon attached to it.

As if by magic, I am now back in business. I have also set the computer to show file extensions. Thanks for that tip.

I have also learnt I only need to carry across the folder with the .web files. When I opened the .web file and then went to publish, it asked me to create the additional folder again for all the files I need. I now know it keeps the files in one location and the .web file in another location.

Anyway, "mission accomplished - Bradford!" I am now no longer in the dark.

Ken