believe me I know how you feel! I have gone through it many times! haha but in the end its a good habit to do. I run several companies off of my comp, so the rebuilding used to takes several days, I have gotten it down to a few hours now.
heres what i do go get a stack of cdr's then I make a folder on my desk top and start copying the files i need into the folder. I make special note of coping the WHOLE Inetpub files as well so I dont lose any of my sites and my db folder. all the other stuff I have is pretty easy to find and copy to the folder. the biggest problems I have are (1) my emails. I use outlook express or outlook. I recent found a program that makes a real nice back up of them and saving them all and restoring are a breeze. and (2) losing my settings in DWMX. Use this free tool to save exactly how you have DWMX set up. http://www.joexx.de/DW-Exporter/download_en.php AWESOME tool!! and free too. then start burning that file to disks. The other thing i do is I went to a computer store and asked if I could have an extra copy of the 2 disks that come with a new hard drive. They are nice cause you just put them in and its completely sets up your hard drive ready for the install. Dont have to debug & fdisk when you use them. Most people will just give you them for free. then do your install and put on IIS and them studio or DWMX whatever you have then CFMX . Then take your disk that has your saved Inetpub on it and copy it over the existing one. THEN BE SURE TO SET YOU FILE PERMISSIONS FOR SHARING!!!! Then I install the http://www.joexx.de/DW-Exporter/download_en.php and copy the back up to my documents and import the settings back into dreamweaver and then give it a try. Almost always runs like a charm. That way you have it up and working before anything else and it shouldnt have any conflicts the rest of the way. One thing i have noticed is that a lot of people have trouble with DW but it has rarely been because DWMX was the problem. Most always its xp pro, IIS or some 3rd party server like apache. Sometimes I have to install and reinstall IIS a few times. But my problem lies with it having troubles running ASP pages not Coldfusion. I actually install CFMX to run on IIS, instead of standalone. And the funny thing is that a lot of times the asp pages wont run but the coldfusion ones always do. hope it helps and you get back in the swing! dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 9:10 AM Subject: RE: Macromedia DONT help me now. so where do i turn now? > Yes, thanks Dave, and the others who are giving me the benefit of their > experience in these things. Dave I did see your advice about > rebuilding the system. I took so long to build it the first time - only > a couple of months ago, that I really want to exhaust all the other > possibilities first. That's a BIG job for me - not really up to speed > on XPPro things. However I'm fast running out of other things to try. > > This machine isn't just used for my web development. I have a really > tiny business - just me - this machine does a multitude of jobs for me, > my business, my family etc. Rebuilding it isn't a trivial task, but as > I said, there aren't many other possibilities left to try. > > > Thanks for your suggestions, and thanks for giving a damn. > > > Cheers, > Michael Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP Webworks. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2003 12:32 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Macromedia DONT help me now. so where do i turn now? > > a clean install is the best way to go, as I suggested too you a few days > ago. > but xp also has a repair feature to where it goes over your install and > fixes its files but I'm not sure I'd trust that. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:40 AM > Subject: RE: Macromedia DONT help me now. so where do i turn now? > > > > I'm starting to think that perhaps the problem might lie in the > Windows. > > Does anyone know if there is a self-repair kind of thing in WinXPPRo? > > If I do a reinstall, will it safely install with all my tweaks and > > setting or will it take me all the way back to the initial > installation > > again and I'll have to reinstall all my apps again? > > > > > > Cheers, > > Michael Kear > > Windsor, NSW, Australia > > AFP Webworks. > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2003 4:02 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: Macromedia DONT help me now. so where do i turn now? > > > > I'm just thinking along the lines that there may be something wrong > > with the computer, maybe a corrupted nic driver, or a somehow broken > > IIS install...I've seen both of those cause many strange problems. The > > Metabase can get corrupted, but IIS will still function to a point, > > and corrupted nic drivers can cause all sorts of odd things to happen. > > > > I've installed MX on 3 machines, some old, some new, and had problems, > > but nothing like what you are seeing, and haven't seen people > > mentioning this kind of problem, so the problem would seem to be with > > your setup somewhere.Trying to install on another system would at > > least give concrete proof that the problem is with the computer if it > > succeeds. At which point I'd say it's time for a Windows reinstall, or > > at least download a copy of Metaedit to make sure your IIS metabase > > isn't corrupt, and reinstall the nic drivers. > > > > Forgive me if I'm off base, I've followed the threads but there have > > been quite a few and I may have missed some relevant point. > > > > -- > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Monday, March 10, 2003, 11:30:08 PM, you wrote: > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
