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pputnam

Hero

Working on someone else's site

I want to help someone with their sandbox site. I asked her to export her site  and attach to an email. It came as all separate pages and not as a sandbox file. Is there a way for her to send it to me so I can open it in Sandvox and work on it for her and then send it back to her?

RobW521

Hero

Re: Working on someone else's site

I wonder if it would work better if she put the site file in a folder, compressed the folder and emailed that compressed attachment to you. ??

pputnam

Hero

Re: Working on someone else's site

I think that would work better. What is the default location for the site file, do you know?

RobW521

Hero

Re: Working on someone else's site

I think the documents folder. She might not even have to put it in a folder before compressing. That's just how I usually send compressed files. Why? I don't know.

Last edited by RobW521 (May 10, 2012 6:25 am)

macdafydd

Avenger

Re: Working on someone else's site

The site file is one that ends in the extension .sandvox (note that it's sandvox and not sanbox). Exporting the site will create the equivalent of the various HTML pages, media folders, etc:, required to view the site with a browser, but not in Sandvox. Ask your friend to do a Spotlight search for .sandvox and she should be able to locate her Sandvox file that way.

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pputnam

Hero

Re: Working on someone else's site

I sent her off instructions, hopefully she will be able to find, zip and send me the file.

pputnam

Hero

Re: Working on someone else's site

She finally was able to zip and send the file, but it must have been an old copy because there was only one page attached. When does Sandvox save copies of changes to the website if we don't save? Is it when we shut down?

mikeabdullah

Administrator

Re: Working on someone else's site

That depends somewhat on what OS she is running.

On Lion, new documents are not saved anywhere user-accessible until you choose "Save" from the File menu. After that, the document is periodically auto-saved, in-place.

On Snow Leopard and earlier, documents are saved only when the user explicitly chooses to, such as the Save menu (command-s).

In either case, you can tell whether a document has been saved for the first time by whether it has a little icon in the title/toolbar. (This icon is known as the document proxy).

What might be easiest is if you ask her to close the document. If it's never been saved, she'll be prompted to do so. Afterwards, the welcome window should reappear (if it doesn't, you can open it from the Window menu). Her document should be listed at the top of the Recent Documents list, and can be dragged into a Mail message.

You can achieve the same effect by dragging the document proxy too, but that's a little more fiddly. Also, she'd have to be using the built-in Mail app, rather than an browser-based one for it to accept the drop. Isn't this terribly complicated!