Started with .html file A. Made radical changes to A using "Save" but not "Save As". Though there was no change in file name, the change was so comprehensive that I will call the final A'.

Published with .jpg difficulties mentioned previously but overcome with repeated "saves."

Returned several days later to .svg (.ims) file X --- and I call it X because that is how far away it is on table of files from A. I called up X and, low and behold, I got the original A instead. I lost my "post haste" page.

The world will believe that I copied A over X inadvertently with "Save As". I say, "no way" in this case.

The task bar at the top was all scrambled suggesting a "sick file."

I understand well your need for repeatability. Unfortunately all I offer you is my considered judgement that there remains

a) a publishing bug in "T"
b) a "save" or "book-keeping" bug

most likely to arise the longer you are in a data set, and the greater the number of changes you make, compounded if you add .jpg files.

Publishing is to ISP. Save is to sub-directory of "My-Site."

Muzz

Robert C. Smith

OK -- it probably happened like this; and I regard "this" as a design flaw in "Save As."

If you call up a new data set from the file drop-down menu, and then go to "Save-As," you will find your previously used file entered in the field.

I would rather find the field blank. I.e, Unless you can assure me, that the file I have claimed from the drop-down menu, and which is sitting in my work window, is the file name I am going to find in "save as," then I would rather find a blank field ALWAYS. Please idiot-proof it or force me to search for the correct file name (or type it in). Leaving me the option of being trigger happy and copying over an existing file leaves unhappy campers, very annoyed at themselves.

I used to back everything up to hard disk and zip disks with batch files in Win 98 SE before I ever published...Guess new techniques are in order as the back-up is AWOL.

As to why I use "Save-as" more than once, I have learned than it is a solution to publishing problems---it seems to put your "house in order" in a manner that "Save" doesn't.

Muzz

Robert C. Smith

Checked other programs I use frequently. "Save As" either returns as a blank field or with what is in the work window.

Muzz

Robert C. Smith

OK, thanks for that Muzz, we'll look into it.


- Derry