Slow response moving pages

[billybarty]

Opening folders and navigating through pages on one of our sites through Frontpage the response is fine. When dragging a page and moving it to another folder I get a message that the file is being renamed and it takes about a minute to move 1 page to another folder. The problem just started yesterday and it is not machine specific. Anything I could check?

 

[Noconi]

When working on a live site or remote server, the variables on 'slowness' depend on the activity or resources on the server. The process of dragging one file to a different folder and "renaming" is actually a process of FrontPage making a copy of the page to your temp folder on your hard drive and then importing it back from your temp folder on your hard drive to a new folder ('renaming')and then updating all of the FrontPage navigation data so that any links to the page at the prior location will be updated to point to the new location.

If you do this on the server during high traffic times, it will take longer for FP to do all of this. Maybe if you tried it during non-peak hours it would be a faster process, with less activity or system resources draining the server from other activity.

HTH
Tiffany
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[billybarty]

These moves and updates are constantly going on with all of the sites we host at all hours of the day. The only response time problems we are having is moving the pages of this one site. Also, the problem just started to happen a few days ago so I thank you for your response but I don't think that making these changes at a different time of the day is feasible workaround. If you have any other ideas of areas to look at it will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Garridon]

A possibility is the size of the site. I have one that's over 1,000 files. It was horribly slow. FP apparently has trouble if the site is exceeds a certain size (there are some past messages here on this). I broke it down into several subwebs, and the slowness cleared up.

Another thing you can try is recalculating the hyperlinks.

 

[Noconi]

Breaking the site into subwebs is something I have seen suggested before. For me, that wouldn't be feasible in many cases either.

Along with recalculating the hyperlinks would be good. Also try deleting your temp FP files - you can do this from FP
TOOLS > WEB SETTINGS > Advanced tab - click delete files button.

You might also want to try:
1) In Windows Explorer Find and delete all FP Temp Files
2) In Windows Explorer Find and delete all hidden *.web files


HTH
Tiffany

 

[DRowland]

Another thought, grasping at straws...
Do you have some large graphics on the pages in question?
If so, re-size them to speed up the action and reduce the file size of each page.