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I have been having difficulty getting the whole newsletter

 

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I have been having difficulty getting the whole newsletter up on the website. The homepage went up and the face page for the newsletter. But the pdf of the newsletter will not load.
It sends me a box saying
“Publish Error
There was an error communicating with the FTP server.
Try again later or check with your service provider.”
I have tried again. I called my service provider and there is no problem with the connection; I can access ours and other websites. The people at Roadrunner said ask Apple what the problem with iWeb is. I will do that tomorrow.

 

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I have been having difficulty getting the whole newsletter up on the website. The homepage went up and the face page for the newsletter. But the pdf of the newsletter will not load. It sends me a box saying “Publish Error There was an error communicating with the FTP server. Try again later or check with your service provider.” I have tried again. I called my service provider and there is no problem with the connection; I can access ours and other websites. The people at Roadrunner said

Submitted: 349 days ago.
Category: Mac
Value: $68
Status: CLOSED
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Expert:  Mike the MacMedic replied348 days and 23 hours ago.

Who is your hosting provider?

Customer replied348 days and 22 hours ago.

Road Runner. I called them yesterday and they checked the circuit out and said it was fine. Also, when in iWeb I click on the public_html to look at the Site Publishing Settings, I click on "Test Connection," it tells me that the connection is good and that I can upload my file. Also, the size of my PDF file is about 6 megabytes. In other months I have had bigger. PDF files. The website is this: www.hilophotoclub.org.

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Expert:  Mike the MacMedic replied348 days and 22 hours ago.

I need some information and I also want you to check some things that may or may not be affecting the situation :

Please go to the Apple logo on the upper left of the screen, go to About This Mac (DO NOT Select More Info), and tell me the Version (under Mac OS X), the Processor and the Memory, it is all right there.

Click on the first icon in the Dock the "Finder", then click on Go at the top of the screen, you will see a drop down menu, go to Utilities. When that opens double click on the application called Disk Utility. When Disk Utility opens you will see your hard drive (usually Macintosh HD) on the left. Highlight your hard drive and click on Verify Disk on the far right. If that is OK in green type, then click on Repair Permissions on the left.

Note: If Verify Disk is not OK try to Repair. If Repair is successful then Repair Permissions if it is not successful let me know.

Customer replied348 days and 20 hours ago.

Mac OS X Version 10.6.8.

I clicked on Disk Utility and Verify Disk, and after a while it showed me a box that said "Disk Utility stopped verifying "Macintosh HD" It said I need to start up the computer with another disk (such as the Mac OS X installation disk) and then use Disk Utility to repair the disc.

I do not have the start up iNstallation disk, and will have to have it sent to me in the mail which may take a few days, so I will get back to you when I am able to do that. I am using my Photo Club's laptop and the Club president has that disk.

The disk definitely needs work. Good so far.

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Expert:  Mike the MacMedic replied348 days and 20 hours ago.

Ok let me know

Customer replied348 days and 2 hours ago.

Hi

I followed your advice. Got the installation disc, held down c when I started the computer up, Verified the Disk, Repaired the Disk, and then Repaired the Permissions. Got everything nicely cleaned up. Then I went ti iWeb and tried to Publish the Entire Site. I did not get a popup right away that there was a problem, so I went away while it was supposedly publishing the site, and when I came back, there was the popup box saying the same as before “Publish Error There was an error communicating with the FTP server. Try again later or check with your service provider.”

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Expert:  Mike the MacMedic replied348 days and 2 hours ago.

Go here and download FileZilla choose the Green button at the top and try to connect to your ftp server let me know what happens:

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Expert:  Mike the MacMedic replied348 days and 1 hours ago.

Were you able to connect to your FTP?

Customer replied346 days and 1 hours ago.

I downloaded FileZilla and attempted to use it. First I clicked on the green button at the top left and that did not do anything that I could see. The I finally figured out how to fill in the blanks and almost got there but It kept saying that my password XXX incorrect. I made various attempts to use a different password XXX also to go back to the regular password XXXX has been used for the past year. None of them worked.

Then I went back to iWeb and again tried to upload it. A box popped up that I could not connect with the Internet because my password XXX incorrect. Nothing i could do would make it work, including reentering what was the actual password XXXX had worked all along.

So here I have the situation that I attempted to follow your advice and somehow corrupted my password XX now I cannot even upload part of my iWeb website that I was able to load before. I looked in iWeb help to see if I could change the password. It gave me instructions that were impossible to follow because it told me to access the privacy settings that are supposed to appear somewhere on the screen when you access the Site Publishing Settings in iWeb. Those privacy settings do not appear.

I do not want to incur another charge from you by asking how to change, the password XX iWeb, so I am going to ask the question on Google. When I figure that out, I will get back to - which is that I have followed your advice and not been able to get my PDF file to load.


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Expert:  Mike the MacMedic replied346 days and 1 hours ago.

Can you browse the internet?

Customer replied346 days ago.

Yes I can browse the Internet. I also, before the password XXX screwed up, was able to test the connection in the in the site settings and a box would tell me I was ready to upload my web file. I would try it and It would only partly load and not load the PDF. Also remember, I said that I had in previous months used PDF files that were larger than this month's file.

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Expert:  Mike the MacMedic replied346 days ago.

Yes but now you are using a totally different FTP client and the password XX XXXXX wrong. Go to Utilitites folder and open Keychain Access go to Keychain Access / Keychain First Aid and run Repair let me know if there are any repairs done.

 
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