"Save As" Existing Page Problem

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When I make a change to a page and choose to "save as" an existing htm file
in my directory I am getting a message that tells me it can't save it because
the file is "open." The page is not open, but somehow it thinks it is and I
have to use another name to save it, then delete the old page and rename then
new one. I just upgraded from Frontpage 2000 to 2003, never had anything
like this in 2000.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Sam said:
When I make a change to a page and choose to "save as" an existing htm file
in my directory I am getting a message that tells me it can't save it because
the file is "open."
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Strange. Try to clear the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Web Server Extensions\Cache
und %TEMP%\FrontPageTempDir directories or use a tool such as
<http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm>.
 
Thank you for your suggestion. Please be more specific. "Clear?" Do you
mean erase a file or a folder? And where is the file/folder? You're
obviously talking to someone with less experience than you. I do appreciate
your help.
Sam
 
Sam said:
Thank you for your suggestion. Please be more specific. "Clear?" Do you
mean erase a file or a folder? And where is the file/folder? You're
obviously talking to someone with less experience than you.
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Use "Start > Run..." and paste "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Web Server
Extensions\Cache" and "%TEMP%\FrontPageTempDir" there, then delete all the
content of these folders. Make sure FrontPage isn't running during this
operation.

There's absolutey no guarantee that this will solve your problem; however,
deleting temporary files will do no harm.
 
That did fix the problem. Thank you very much. However, there seems to be a
problem with FP. I made the same mistake of trying to save a newly created
page as one that exists and I left the existing page open and naturally I got
the reminder that I have to close the existing page. Well I closed the
existing page and still get the error message about it being open. I'll just
need to be careful not to make the mistake, but don't think it should be that
way. Shouldn't have to go in and clear those files everytime you make that
mistake.

Sam
 
I'm having the same problem, but when I tried your suggestion I get an error
message saying "Windows cannot find C:\Documents".

I did find a "web server extensions" folder in c:\program files\common
files\microsoft shared. It contains folders called 40 and 60. Can I delete
those?

I also have another problem: When I open a page on my website to update it,
the path in the title bar changes to a long temp directory path, and when I
try to save the revised file, it wants to save it there, rather than on my
site. Why? This is very frustrating. It forces me to renavigate to the site
to save it, and then it often gives me the error message that it cannot save
to a file name that is open. What causes Frontpage to want to name it a temp
file on my harddrive rather than keeping the original website path and name?

Thanks.
 
I don't know what suggestion you are responding to (no copy of the
previous message in your post), but I will guess that the path given was
an example, not an accurate path.
Browse to your websites in Windows Explorer and use that path.

Dot not delete the folders 40 and 60. 40 is used by the FrontPage
extensions on your machine (sounds like you have IIS installed with
FP2000 extensions), and 60 is used by FrontPage for disc-based websites.
Deleting either of these folders will mean reinstalling FrontPage
extensions on IIS, and/or reinstalling FrontPage.
 
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