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Sounds like something's wonky in the site setup, but hard to tell exactly what. When you say you have to go up a level, do you mean on the local side, or on the server side?

If the paths are all pointing to your hard drive, you're going to have to either do some find-and-replace work on the paths, repair manually, or start over from a back-up. Even on the local side, the file paths should be relative to your web-root folder, just like it will be on the server. If that's not the case, then something's wrong. Are you always working on the pages from within the site window? Are all the files and images being linked to also within the Files tab of the site window? Are there any special characters (apostrophes, slashes, etc.) in the folder names all the way form your computer hard drive to your web root? If none of those are true, the next best guess would be that your Preferences are corrupt, or your site file is corrupt (and you'd need to create a new site file by importing from your web-root folder).

Nate

thanks for your reply. Im starting over.. used "new site from existing content" but set up a new folder on the hard drive side.

Now when It opens, Im workin on the pages from within the site window. I think it will work this time - hopefully.

on the harddrive side, I have externalHD/site2/site

BUT because I used "new site from existing content" (I assume) its only referencing the original content? is that right?

because there are no other files or folders under "externalHD/site2/site"

all the images etc are still located under externalHD/each folder (eg images, pages etc)

in other words the first attempt was dropped right in "External HD"

the new attempt has put the site file two tiers deeper;

external/site2/site -- apparently with reference to the first site.

is this going to cause more grief when uploading?

should I move all the original files into the new folder (site2) eg settings, data - including images and pages? - right now its on the actual site file that is in the new folder #2.

thanks for your help

.. when you upload, do you need to upload anything else besides, index and images? - last time I uploaded everything.

best, M/

It kind of depends on what you meant by having to go back a level to get to your files (Files tab, or server files, or?).

yes, on the original version, I had to go up a level to access the pages to edit. This evoked the Local Browser so in fact I guess I was working on pages on the hard drive, not from the site window.

Im afraid this might happened again, unless I drag the original files onto the new site2 folder

but Im also concerned that using the original files might bring across the properties of some corrupt files.

would that be correct?

ok, I moved the other files over - images, data etc into the new folder

now when I open the site, there is nothing in the site window other then the index page.

of course, when the index page is opened, nothing is referenced, no pictures etc.

in order to re-link these, I have to click the up button, which bumps me out of the site window into the local browser and were going in circles again.

ok, I don't know about the structure on my HD but I had to put everything back the way it was in order for me to be able to work within the site window on the program.