i forgot to export my cs3 site definitions... - Macromedia Dreamweaver

guessing windows?

do you have the old drive's windows Registry?
On a drive you can boot up from? Or can use a Registry tool to extract the
info from a drive that doesn't boot? Or was the drive/computer just reverted
and there is no chance of recovery?

Better: Do you have the site definition information written down on old
fashioned paper so that you can recover from this by typing it in again
because it involves usernames and passwords.
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xp pro. i can use norton's recovery point browser to access files from
the ghosted system, so i guess i need to know where the site definition
info is normally stored?

and i DO have passwords etc stored elsewhere - i'm just trying to avoid
having to type them all in again.

Alan wrote:
> guessing windows?
>
> do you have the old drive's windows Registry?
> On a drive you can boot up from? Or can use a Registry tool to extract the
> info from a drive that doesn't boot? Or was the drive/computer just reverted
> and there is no chance of recovery?
>
> Better: Do you have the site definition information written down on old
> fashioned paper so that you can recover from this by typing it in again
> because it involves usernames and passwords.

They are in the Registry.

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"fithdy" <fithdy@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> xp pro. i can use norton's recovery point browser to access files from the
> ghosted system, so i guess i need to know where the site definition info
> is normally stored?
>
> and i DO have passwords etc stored elsewhere - i'm just trying to avoid
> having to type them all in again.
>
> Alan wrote:
>> guessing windows?
>>
>> do you have the old drive's windows Registry?
>> On a drive you can boot up from? Or can use a Registry tool to extract
>> the
>> info from a drive that doesn't boot? Or was the drive/computer just
>> reverted
>> and there is no chance of recovery?
>>
>> Better: Do you have the site definition information written down on old
>> fashioned paper so that you can recover from this by typing it in again
>> because it involves usernames and passwords.

sorry to be such a dolt - using the recovery point browser and opening
the ghosted backup, where exactly might i look? i DID find some folders
(with the site names and inside each one was an .xml file) and .dws
files (same name as the sites) from : docs and
settings->administrator->app
data->adobe->dreamweaver9->configuration->sitecache, so recovered them
to the corresponding folders on the new setup, but opening DW doesn't
show them in my site list. now i'm TOTALLY confused...

Murray *ACE* wrote:
> They are in the Registry.
>

They are in the Windows Registry. They are not in folders. Your only real
option would be to restore the ghosted image, boot from it, export the
registry keys, and then import them into your new boot.

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"fithdy" <fithdy@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> sorry to be such a dolt - using the recovery point browser and opening the
> ghosted backup, where exactly might i look? i DID find some folders (with
> the site names and inside each one was an .xml file) and .dws files (same
> name as the sites) from : docs and settings->administrator->app
> data->adobe->dreamweaver9->configuration->sitecache, so recovered them to
> the corresponding folders on the new setup, but opening DW doesn't show
> them in my site list. now i'm TOTALLY confused...
>
> Murray *ACE* wrote:
>> They are in the Registry.
>>

ah! okay. thanks. so what are the files and folders i copied for then?

Murray *ACE* wrote:
> They are in the Windows Registry. They are not in folders. Your only
> real option would be to restore the ghosted image, boot from it, export
> the registry keys, and then import them into your new boot.
>

> so what are the files and folders i copied for then?

You mean the ones you copied onto the new computer? Probably the actual
files that make up the various sites. It's only the site DEFINITIONS that
are saved in the Registry.

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"fithdy" <fithdy@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> ah! okay. thanks. > Murray *ACE* wrote:
>> They are in the Windows Registry. They are not in folders. Your only
>> real option would be to restore the ghosted image, boot from it, export
>> the registry keys, and then import them into your new boot.
>>

i JUST had a look at the folders - they all hold a 1kb file called
dwSiteColumnsMe.xml. there were also files with the sitename and a .dws
extension. they are all different sizes ranging from 30-20kb in size...

Murray *ACE* wrote:
>> so what are the files and folders i copied for then?
>
> You mean the ones you copied onto the new computer? Probably the
> actual files that make up the various sites. It's only the site
> DEFINITIONS that are saved in the Registry.
>

those are the site cache file which dw maintains to speed up link checking,
and the Files Panel column customization file that records what custom
changes to the Files Panel view you've made.

They are not the site definition information or the site's asset files.

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