Cannot view published site - images blocked?

Hi

I've been working on a site and all was well until the last test publish ie export website.

If I click on the index.htm file, I can use the navbar for just two buttons. Then the navbar locks. In Windows Explorer a yellow banner appears across the top saying that some images have been blocked to prevent the sender etc. As far as I know, I have done nothing new or special. One minute it was working, the next not working. It failed after I'd added one of the new smart photo galleries. That may be a coincidence.

In Windows Explorer I can see that the files have a weird icon - not the normal one for HTML files. Anyone had this? How do I fix it? AM REALLY PANICKING. A deadline will kill me unless I can fix this.

Please help?

Thanks.

Ali

Hi Ali, can you attach a sreengrab of the 'strange icon'?

EDIT: I suggest you do a Google search for "some images have been blocked to prevent the sender".

One result gave:

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This is to help protect you against potentially malicious functionality accessing your computer. When the html is located locally on your computer, it is possible for the server where the images is located to read certain details about your computer.

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Where are these images located?

Thanks for responding. I am very grateful. I have no idea what this is.

I attach a screenshot of what appears in Windows Explorer. I have no idea what they are on about. The site is full of the usual kinds of images and was working properly until this happened. I published to my hard drive, look at the site, and then test it. But I can;t do that because my system has decided there is something weird about the images. If I publish to the web I still get a locked nav bar. It is a problem with the nav bar. The site was full of lots of images, from testing new components, so I saved a version and optimised before exporting. Still wont work.

Any and all ideas very welcome.

Ali

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Hi Ali, can you attach a sreengrab of the 'strange icon'?

EDIT: I suggest you do a Google search for "some images have been blocked to prevent the sender".

One result gave:



Where are these images located?

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What's odd about your screengrab is that your index_htm_files folder wouldn't normally contain these .htm files. EDIT They don't!

I suggest you delete all related files from your hard drive & republish. See if that solves the problem, if not get back.

EDIT: The Icons just show a broken image/file links.

EDIT EDIT: Why is the screengrab showing a BURN folder?

Did you upload the entire site? As Egg points out if the images are not in the index_html_files folder then you can get what you are seeing in your screen shot.

if what egg sugessted does not work:

you can try:

in IE go to internet options, advanced tab - scroll down the settings to the security section and make sure 'block unsecured images with other mixed content' is not ticked


you can also try ticking 'Allow active content to run in files on my computer' - you will need to reboot the computer after this is done for it to take effect

if you run windows defender you could check to see if it is the cause if the above do not work - NOTE: whlist changing the IE settings probably won't affect your security significantly as long as you have something like defender in action, disabling defender features might well

this is not a cure, just might enable you to carry on working...

EDIT - FWIW I agree with both egg and gary who know far more than me about websites building; everything needs to be in the right place...

Just an idea. Seems you use FireFox 57. I am too, and recently my ransomware protection started silently blocking FireFox when loading files from local disc. I had to add FireFox to the trusted programs list to get it working again. Maybe its something similar?

Totally OT but there's a lot of us Europeans up very late tonight. Normal for me but what's keeping the rest of you up?

Hi Egg,

A deadline was keeping - is keeping - me up!

I think I had two issues. The nav bar was a bit mad on one page. I got the site working by stopping repeating on that one page, and pasting in a new nav bar. Then the site worked. The other issue is a Firefox or Windows problem I think. I suspect Firefox. Thank you to whoever pointed this out - can't see the thread from here. And to everyone else who went to the trouble of helping me.

Fingers crossed I can get finished now.

Ali

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Totally OT but there's a lot of us Europeans up very late tonight. Normal for me but what's keeping the rest of you up?

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@Ali good luck - hope it all goes well

@Siran not had any issues like that with my FFox 57 - I use eset and acronis for security...

@egg - the short answer: normal for me too - the long answer: just bought a midi controller for adding sountrack to animation; came with free ableton lite which is a step change up from music maker in terms of complexity.. a lot to learn...

Hi all,

I’ve put the site up, even though I’ve spotted a couple of things. It’s almost there. But it’s taking too long to load on both safari, Firefox... Can you spot anything? Should the header and footer banners be on the background? I optimised the images. Still taking too long. Galleries created from Content gallery seem particularly slow. All advice welcome.

What can I change?

Www.tranquilityhairstudio.co.uk

Thanks.

Ali

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Originally Posted by Artyboots

Hi all,
I’ve put the site up, even though I’ve spotted a couple of things. It’s almost there. But it’s taking too long to load on both safari, Firefox... Can you spot anything? Should the header and footer banners be on the background? I optimised the images. Still taking too long. Galleries created from Content gallery seem particularly slow. All advice welcome.
What can I change?
Www.tranquilityhairstudio.co.uk

Thanks.
Ali

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Ali, I am getting sub-second rendering here so there is no delay here,
Acorn

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Originally Posted by Acorn

Ali, I am getting sub-second rendering here so there is no delay here,
Acorn

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Thanks egg. I think it’s populating a bit better. This morning it was terrible. Now to make the other variants.

Thanks aga8n.

Ali

That was Acorns answer Ali :)

I see no slow loading of your Gallery page either, downloads fast for me too.

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

That was Acorns answer Ali :)

I see no slow loading of your Gallery page either, downloads fast for me too.

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Thank you all - so very much.