Dustin,
Scott told me a while back to put all files into the Files folder under the website_vnu folder. I copy all images, mp3's etc here before I use them in vsd. Then vsd can always find them and you can always backup and restore the one folder knowing that you have all the files you need.

I did find that if I use mouseover on a text box vsd creates an IMG000xx file and a MO_IMG000xx file for each occurrence. These files can get out of hand. I use these things as a menu to link between pages on my band site (html://www.uphilltheband.com/) There were dozens of these files floating about. I am slowly replacing them with photoshop created images so that I can use the same image on numerous pages. (See the gigs link). Bruce gave me a hint how to remove the unused IMG000xx files.
Tim

I always place all my graphics and .vnu files in one folder and have moved those folders to usb hd's, etc and transfered from win 2000 to vista, but I always transfer them to the same directory on my hard drive and havn't had a problem.

Dusty,
Hopefully you read this before you pull all of your hair out. Recently, like you-I just moved my files from XP to Vista. At first I thought that I was in trouble, I was receiving the same errors that you did...on over 300 pages! Here's the good news, it can be done hopefully with little trouble for you, if...

If all of your image files are in the same folder on XP you're golden. This is the way I transfered my files over to Vista:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\docs\web pics
then in the web pics folder I placed my site folder (complete), the VNU file individually and all of the pics; some of them are in a folder and some are individual. It all works fine now, occasionally and I'm not sure why, I have to right click on VSD and open it as an administrator, but that's the only glitch that I see.

Hopefully I got you in time to help, good luck.

Hello Dustin,

You misunderstood the original reply slightly. Visual Site Designer doesn't care about the files it exports for your website, since it does that every time you save the VNU file. What it's looking for is the original images you added through the Picture tool in Visual Site Designer. So, if you only added 4 or 5 images to the website, it takes a matter of seconds to tell the VNU where they're stored on the new computer. Even with websites that have added dozens of photos/images it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to recreate the paths to those originals, but it can be tedious.

The problem is that you have to link every image and also remember the exact name or you are out of luck. VSD needs to have a search feature that allows you to relink. I have run into the problem when moving a project from one drive to another. Everything is the same except the hard drive letter and it cannot find a thing. Big pain.

Thanks to all of you for your help. I finally figured out how to transfer website to my laptop with vista. Although, now when I preview in browser I get pictures in places where there not suppose to be. Very frustrated. I have spent so much time trying to fix the problems with VSD, I wish I would have spent the last months learning html. This is the last straw for me. I will give up and find another program. The only bright spot with Coffee Cup is their Forums. The people who have spent their time helping people like me, I hope are very appreciated by Coffee Cup the company. I have not been happy with any of the software Coffee Cup has. What a joke!

The Ironic thing is, my desktop crashed on me today (merry christmas). Which I had suspected would happen. This is why I tried to transfer to my new laptop. No such Luck.

Lesson learned. (Do not purchase software products from small no name companies on the internet)

....huh??? Yeah, a small no name company like coffeecup that only has 3.5 million results on google???and and downloads out the wahzoo....ok....goodluck...I've using it for 4 years and have no complaints, but can always find development issues in almost any software and I would take a dare to say that several million sites have been made using coffeecup products...but different strokes for different folks...I like vsd because it gives me a way to put up a page quick, it's easy to use..

Dustin,
If you cannot figure out how to use VSD or have trouble transfer files from one machine to another there is no way you could have learned html. I suggest that you continue to use Coffee Cup and begin to learn how things work on a computer.

When I transferred everything from my old, XP machine to my new, VISTA machine, I found that everything in Vista had a slightly different path (ah, the wisdom of Microsoft). My Pictures were now "Pictures", etc. So be sure to replicate the exact path where your images lived last time and put your folder there - ie. c:\user\mypictures - and your .vnu file in the same relative position and everything will work fine.

I use all sort of programs and find Coffee Cup to be great! It pays to use some good folder strategy from the getgo in case your site gets large. I now build discrete .vnu files for each main branch of the website so I don't have to rebuild (and retest) the entire site each time I upload.

I agree that the VSD needs to have a "search" routine when the VNU files are moved somewhere else. (ie. to a backup server or another computer with a different path). When VSD asks you to try again and you pick the new folder, it should go in to that folders hierarchy and find & re-link all of the source files --- automatically.