original links to project resources -...
Is there a way to get the original path that I used to link to the project resources...
When I started I had several different saves and different folders for build files /tests ...
I want to move those original paths into one main folder but I do not know the original paths I used...
When I started I had several different saves and different folders for build files /tests ...
I want to move those original paths into one main folder but I do not know the original paths I used...
If I try to repoint the project resource files (Instead of having all the image folder links all over my computer I move them to a single folder) All the images break?
If I have understood correctly, the project resources are scattered in various folders in the Project Resources box, and it is wished that they be re-allocated to a single folder. I think that can be done without knowing the original location of those files on one's hard drive. I would be inclined to do it as follows.
(a) I would export the website from the RSD file to a known location on the local hard drive. That would mean that there was now a copy of those resources at that known location on the hard drive.
(b) In the Project Resources box I would create or select the folder into which I wanted the files to be gathered together.
(c) I would use the Add Files button to put into that folder in the Project Resources box the copy of the resource files generated at(a) above.
Following the above it would, of course, be necessary to reset the links on the various pages within the project to point to the appropriate files in the folder into which the project resources had been copied. After that one could remove from the Project Resources box the original resource files that were scattered in various folders.
Frank
(a) I would export the website from the RSD file to a known location on the local hard drive. That would mean that there was now a copy of those resources at that known location on the hard drive.
(b) In the Project Resources box I would create or select the folder into which I wanted the files to be gathered together.
(c) I would use the Add Files button to put into that folder in the Project Resources box the copy of the resource files generated at(a) above.
Following the above it would, of course, be necessary to reset the links on the various pages within the project to point to the appropriate files in the folder into which the project resources had been copied. After that one could remove from the Project Resources box the original resource files that were scattered in various folders.
Frank
Don't get me wrong I still really appreciate RSD and what it can do...
but say for example I had my images folder on the z drive and all the rest of my resource files are in the root of my resource/output directory... I simply want to copy and the exact same single resource folder to another spot, but all of the images break.
Technically; it should almost be possible to move the images resource directory from within RSD to another folder; no fuss no muss...
As it is now if you start a big project, make sure you keep all your resource directories in 1 main folder... because moving them is a "bit" of a problem...
Even if I could simply change a pointer link inside a setup file from z:/image to C:project/images; an exact copy of the folder should work
but say for example I had my images folder on the z drive and all the rest of my resource files are in the root of my resource/output directory... I simply want to copy and the exact same single resource folder to another spot, but all of the images break.
Technically; it should almost be possible to move the images resource directory from within RSD to another folder; no fuss no muss...
As it is now if you start a big project, make sure you keep all your resource directories in 1 main folder... because moving them is a "bit" of a problem...
Even if I could simply change a pointer link inside a setup file from z:/image to C:project/images; an exact copy of the folder should work
I agree it would be convenient to be able to shuffle items from one Project Resource box folder to another, and for the relevant pages to be updated accordingly, but that doesn't seem possible at present.
I feel sure that images are not being linked directly from the hard drive without using the Project Resources box, though it might be possible to gain that impression from the post above. Such a procedure would, of course, normally result in the exported web pages looking OK in a browser on the computer containing those images, but failing to display those images on any other computer.
Frank
I feel sure that images are not being linked directly from the hard drive without using the Project Resources box, though it might be possible to gain that impression from the post above. Such a procedure would, of course, normally result in the exported web pages looking OK in a browser on the computer containing those images, but failing to display those images on any other computer.
Frank
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