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    Stop publishing entire site

    Even though i am selecting a single component to publish, sometimes, or rather most times, it will publish the entire site. The site is quite large, so it is very time consuming. Any ideas why it wants to publish all the files?
    J.R.
    Epigate Software, LLC.

    [email protected]
    http://www.epigate.com
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    Re: Stop publishing entire site

    Go to your Publishing profile and uncheck Support files. It doesn't stop everything. I commonly cancel the upload as soon as I see any graphic image file being uploaded.
    Steve Wood
    See my profile on IADN

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      #3
      Re: Stop publishing entire site

      Great, thank you Steve.
      J.R.
      Epigate Software, LLC.

      [email protected]
      http://www.epigate.com
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        #4
        Re: Stop publishing entire site

        If you are publishing by FTP and don't let it complete, the publish history is never updated for any files in the list. When you publish again, the history will show them as missing, or have the wrong publish date and will still add them to the list to be published.

        If publish support files is off, the publish will not publish CSS or images. However, JavaScript files, calendar icons, and some system files are still added to the publish list. If "Publish new or modified files only" is checked, they will still publish as the history was never updated to show they were published. If you are using FTP publishing, it should be allowed to fully complete at least one once, and probably every time.

        FTP publishing can fail if one of the files on the target is locked. While this is pretty rare, it can occur. The FTP publish will appear to run, and then stop when it hits that file. In that instance, the only good solution is to reboot the target computer or VPS to clear the locked file.

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          #5
          Re: Stop publishing entire site

          Jerry,

          It seems even if you let alpha publish everything each time you reboot or start Alpha it wants to publish all files. Again, because there are a number of different ways to publish, it's hard to describe what happens other than to call it erratic. e.g. Sometimes (but not every time) if I modify a tabbed_ui and select publish from the toolbar, it will publish all or most of the components listed in the tabbed_ui. I really, really wish that alpha would rewrite publishing so that the user has full, reliable control. I have now resorted to publishing to a local folder as if it were the server target folder. That is to say, my profile has the server aliases. At least publishing local is very fast, even if Alpha decides to publish the entire damn project. Then I use FTP to hand pick the actual updated files to send to the server. Not ideal, but saves me a lot of aggravation.
          Peter
          AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

          [email protected]
          https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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            #6
            Re: Stop publishing entire site

            So far, knock on wood, it seems Steve's solution has done the trick. I swear I looked at that dang checkbox a dozen times and it just never occured to me that it was the problem.

            I do like the Dreamweaver approach, select the individual files or choose all.
            J.R.
            Epigate Software, LLC.

            [email protected]
            http://www.epigate.com
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              #7
              Re: Stop publishing entire site

              I use an external FTP (Filezilla) for publishing and have not experienced the problems above. Since my server is in a datacenter and I do not vpn or map the drive I feel SFTP is better due to security than sending with A5 FTP which send plain text. The only drawback is you must return from Filezilla to A5 and check the box that publishing completed successfully in order to update the publishing history. This approach lets you further set filters / rules for uploading which are in your external FTP program - resulting in much better control of the uploading process.

              Brad

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                #8
                Re: Stop publishing entire site

                Brad,

                Could you describe what you are doing exactly? I assume that you still publish from Alpha? Do you set the profile to external FTP?
                Peter
                AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                [email protected]
                https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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                  #9
                  Re: Stop publishing entire site

                  Peter:

                  Yes I choose external FTP from within A5. I have created a profile in Filezilla for the from and to destinations. I actually have the login credentials saved (I use the portable version of Filezilla - and it is on my encrypted hard drive partition -- this keeps me from entering the credentials every time as long as the partition is loaded). The source and destination folders are already stored in the profile as well as the SFTP transfer protocol and overwrite options.

                  I publish what I want - this is usually New and modified files only - A5 will gather files and publish to temp location on local drive (this temp location is always the same) then I swtich to Filezilla and upload files from the temp directory. When upload is complete and error free I switch back to A5 and click on the yes it published properly. The last step will delete the files from the temp location and update the publishing history.

                  Hope this helps

                  Brad

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                    #10
                    Re: Stop publishing entire site

                    Thanks Brad. I half got what you are doing; that completes the picture.
                    Peter
                    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                    [email protected]
                    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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