Thread: Changed Computers, Lost Website Info.

Hi,
Our old computer is in the shop, and we lost all our VodaHost stuff for our website. I can down load BlueVoda, etc. again, but how do I get my webpages on this new computer so I can work on them & publish them?

THANKS!
Abby270

Connect to your VodaHost Control Panel, click on File Manager, and use the UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD feature to re-populate your BV Folder with everything saved on the VH servers: be careful to preserve the heirarchy of the interior folders (images, etc.).

Or, if you prefer, you can use the Blue FTP tool IN BV to download each file and item individually in the exact same manner. This is obviously more time consuming....

Navigation within either utility is effected by clicking on the labeled folders (to open, or to "go up a level").

>> Be sure that you are accessing the public_html/ directory for each domain, and preserving the folder/file heirarchy within each precisely.

When you first open these recovered pages, the images will not present (they will have a red "X" in them, due to not having a defined association with your new computer --- they still have the original path attached), and you will simply need to re-publish them to get everything back to normal. Don't worry about re-publishing, though ---- the servers know which images are stored where for each page!

You'll do fine....one step at a time!

THANK YOU!
And thanks for answering so quickly.
I'll take it one step at a time. :)
Here goes....

Connect to your VodaHost Control Panel, click on File Manager, and use the UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD feature to re-populate your BV Folder with everything saved on the VH servers: be careful to preserve the heirarchy of the interior folders (images, etc.).

PLEASE HELP ME WITH THE ABOVE DIRECTIONS!! Sorry to be so unlearned about this stuff.

I can get to the files, click on public_html folder and open it. But I don't know what to do from there. I see the upload option but no download option.

Thanks.

Abby720

Once you find the files you wish to pull back into your computer, click on them ONCE, and then using the icon/top toolbar, select COPY TO to send a copy down to your computer....(do not select MOVE, as this will remove it from the server entirely).

Do this one at a time for each of the files you choose to re-populate your new computer.

I am having the same issue. I go into file manager, click once on public_html, select "copy" on the upper right menu, and then it navigates to a page asking "where do you want to copy the folder?" What should I select to import these files into the new BlueVoda that i downloaded on my new computer?

You need to drill into your file structure on your computer (shown on the left side of the file manager) by clicking on the 'blank' folder ("up") until your Blue Voda folder (in your C:/ drive) shows......once you click on that once, it will become the destination for you to copy to....

BlueFTP is easiest to download your BV pages with, in this instance.

I keep clicking "up one level," but I don't see anything on my local computer.

In BlueFTP? (can't be....the utility is connected directly to your system)
In File Manager? (like I said, downloads of .bvp files are best via BlueFTP)

OK, I used BlueFTP. I connected, then copied all the individual files under public_html to C:\users\d\documents\bluevoda . All the individual .jpg files show up, but how do I actually get the pages that I created in BlueVoda on my other computer to show up on this one so that I can edit them? I tried opening a few of the files, and the "unexpected file format" error occurred.

Simply Publish the page once to re-associate the page images & layouts to your new BV program (it will not affect your website "as-is" for it is the same page presently up, and the server already has stored the images) ..... when you re-open them again, all will appear normal (providing your images are indeed resident on your new system in the correct path).


This has been discussed soooo many times here, I am surprised you have not done a search of the Forum to familiarize yourself with the process prior to posting....

How do I publish the pages when they don't show up in BV? I tried searching the forum for this issue, but all the threads were on slightly different issues. No .bvp files seem to have been transferred, even though I copied everything in public_html to my C drive (BV folder). Am I missing something obvious here?

In your sitebuilder:
1. Click on file - new page - from existing html page
2. Tick the button that says 'remote - (on the internet)'
3. Enter the url of the page you want, like http://www.name of the pageyouwantforexample.com
4. Click okay

This will get you your page. Some things will need adjusting, like usually the navigation, but you will get most of it back.

Do this for each page you want. It can be tedius, but it is much easier than reconstructing the whole thing

I just did the same not too long ago for almost 150 pages... Now I back up ALL THE TIME..LOL live and learn.

Good luck

Oh, so there's no way to just but the .bvp files on a cd or something and transfer them to my new computer? I was told a couple of years ago that this was possible. The html import really destroys the pages--I might as well start again from scratch, if the html import is the only option...

Originally Posted by das1989

Oh, so there's no way to just but the .bvp files on a cd or something and transfer them to my new computer? I was told a couple of years ago that this was possible. The html import really destroys the pages--I might as well start again from scratch, if the html import is the only option...

Well sure, if you have them. But I thought you said that that when you went to open them, you got a message 'the "unexpected file format" error occurred.
Guess I misunderstood.

If you cannot open the files you have, you have to do it another way.

And, BTW, the html you get is better than 90% of your page...

WEll good luck, whatever you end up doing.

OK, thanks. Everything but JPGs are preserved when I transfer via CD, and that's because I don't have the images on my new computer yet. One issue, though: when I transfer the BV files, I can only seem to save them to my desktop and when I click on them, they launch BV but don't automatically open the file that I clicked on. I have to go into BV, select Open, select Desktop, then select the files. Also, all the file names are in all CAPS, so when I try to publish from this computer, they go to different locations (ex.: survey.html vs. SURVEY.html. When I try to rename the files, it just replaces the old ones with CAPS and does not revert to lower case. Is there any way to fix this?

One more issue here. I have now successfully imported the BV files from my old computer, and resized and imported the images to my hard drive. So...images and plain html text are fine. My only problem is on my navigation links...I have hyperlinks with different rollover qualities. In BV, the text links appear (albeit with the wrong font size), so I fixed the font size and went to preview my site. Only the first hyperlinked piece of text appeared--none of the rest of my links showed up in the preview page. I don't have a traditional navigation bar--each hyperlink was put up individually by hand. Why are they showing up only in BV and not when I go to preview my site? Could this be a problem with the file transfer or is it because I have a newer version of BV on my new computer? Is there any way to avoid re-creating all these painstakingly spaced hyperlinks or is this even possible. A little bewildered...

Well..just remembered that the navigation is part of a menu bar--but each is a separate menu bar because I wanted greater spacing than was available otherwise. I still have only one of these menu bars showing up when I preview my site--very odd, because the others are exactly the same except for the actual text. I can also make new menu bars with out problem. Is there anything specific that i can do to get these menu bars to show up when I preview?

Is this a dumb question, but could you just go into file manager and copy the whole public html file back onto your computer?

Ian