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    1. Re: RootsWeb-Help-D Digest V01 #9
    2. Christine A. Doyle, M.D.
    3. Karen - I do understand this dilemma. I'm associate editor of a site originally done in Front Page. And when I try to WS-FTP to the site, there are *NO* directories on the remote host. There are a couple of things here that can help you out. (bear in mind I'm using WS_FTP Pro, which you can download from the ipswitch site) First, when you set up the site properties, there are 5 tabs: General, Session, Startup, Advanced, Firewall. General should list your Site Name ("Historic") then the host name/address ("freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~historic") then the host type (pick "automatic detect") then your User ID ("historic") then if you want your password. Then go to the Startup tab. The remote site folder should be something like "genealogy_html" The Local folder should be something like "C:\Program Files\WS_FTP\historic" Remember that you need the BACKslashes in this line. Then click OK. This means that when you login to the historic site, it will automatically open the correct folders/directories in both your local system and remote host. IF FrontPage is putting your files in somewhere else, then you have to find them and change the Local folder name appropriately. I don't currently use FrontPage (but am going to have to soon), but you shouldn't have to "export" the files to get WS_FTP to see them. In fact, you could just let them be in the default FrontPage directory, and specify that directory name for the Local folder. You do exactly the same thing for your other site (Nevada County Gen Soc), which means that you will have TWO sites to choose from in WS_FTP. I suspect that the problem lies in FrontPage and where it's putting the pages. I hope that this helps. Chris

    01/26/2001 04:16:16