2 unrelated questions

[Andrew G]

I am finally upgrading this week from shopsite 4.1 to 6.2.

In the meantime I have made the mistake of trying to use 'power edit' to
change alot of shipping weights all at once for about a 1000 products. This
seems to have caused problems because my site will no longer publish
correctly. It hangs during 'partial re-index.' The result is I can't publish
any new changes, be it new products, price changes, removing out of stock
items... Totally screwed basically. Does anyone have any suggestions on how
to give shopsite a little kick to get clean through my store generation?

The second question is this, because shopsite uses CGI to generate the html
pages, when I delete products, it leaves those pages sitting on my server
collecting dust and unfortunately collecting search engine hits as well. I
took over the site from the previous webmaster and soon realized there are
about 200 or so of these orphaned product pages and their corresponding
product images choking my server. So here's my question, does shopsite 6.2
or any future planned release have a solution for deleting unwanted HTML
along with deleting it's corresponding image and database entry?

Thanks

Andrew Greaves

Webmaster
electroline4u.com

[Andrew G]

Ah I think I solved my first problem!

But if anyone knows about question #2, I'd be very interested to hear....
thanks!


"Andrew G" <andy@electroline4u.com> wrote in message
news:b16i6f$v1s$1@support.shopsite.com...

I am finally upgrading this week from shopsite 4.1 to 6.2.

In the meantime I have made the mistake of trying to use 'power edit' to
change alot of shipping weights all at once for about a 1000 products.
This
seems to have caused problems because my site will no longer publish
correctly. It hangs during 'partial re-index.' The result is I can't
publish
any new changes, be it new products, price changes, removing out of stock
items... Totally screwed basically. Does anyone have any suggestions on
how
to give shopsite a little kick to get clean through my store generation?

The second question is this, because shopsite uses CGI to generate the
html
pages, when I delete products, it leaves those pages sitting on my server
collecting dust and unfortunately collecting search engine hits as well. I
took over the site from the previous webmaster and soon realized there are
about 200 or so of these orphaned product pages and their corresponding
product images choking my server. So here's my question, does shopsite 6.2
or any future planned release have a solution for deleting unwanted HTML
along with deleting it's corresponding image and database entry?

Thanks

Andrew Greaves

Webmaster
electroline4u.com

[Brian Williams]

I periodically delete all html pages and regenerate. That way all of my
pages are current.

I have no solution for the images. I just manaully delete them one at a time


Brian

"Andrew G" <andy@electroline4u.com> wrote in message
news:b16p98$vf9$1@support.shopsite.com...

Ah I think I solved my first problem!

But if anyone knows about question #2, I'd be very interested to hear....
thanks!


"Andrew G" <andy@electroline4u.com> wrote in message
news:b16i6f$v1s$1@support.shopsite.com...
I am finally upgrading this week from shopsite 4.1 to 6.2.

In the meantime I have made the mistake of trying to use 'power edit' to
change alot of shipping weights all at once for about a 1000 products.
This
seems to have caused problems because my site will no longer publish
correctly. It hangs during 'partial re-index.' The result is I can't
publish
any new changes, be it new products, price changes, removing out of
stock
items... Totally screwed basically. Does anyone have any suggestions on
how
to give shopsite a little kick to get clean through my store generation?

The second question is this, because shopsite uses CGI to generate the
html
pages, when I delete products, it leaves those pages sitting on my
server
collecting dust and unfortunately collecting search engine hits as well.
I
took over the site from the previous webmaster and soon realized there
are
about 200 or so of these orphaned product pages and their corresponding
product images choking my server. So here's my question, does shopsite
6.2
or any future planned release have a solution for deleting unwanted HTML
along with deleting it's corresponding image and database entry?

Thanks

Andrew Greaves

Webmaster
electroline4u.com

[Ben Ziegler]

Another way to get rid of your old html pages that is not quite so "scary"
(to me, deleting all html pages of a running website seems a little scary)
would be to first do a complete republish. Then, if you have ftp access to
the htdoc folder on your server, view the folder by date created, and your
new pages will be at the bottom or top, and all with nearly the same
date/time stamp. Simply delete all the other pages, and you should be free
and clear. As for old images, i've no idea how you would go about deleting
them except by manually looking to see which are getting used.
The database should be cleared of old products if the products are deleted
from Shopsite shouldn't they?

Ben Ziegler
Sewvacdirect.com
Avid Shopsite user and fan

"Brian Williams" <netwerksguru@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b16qn9$vhk$1@support.shopsite.com...

I periodically delete all html pages and regenerate. That way all of my
pages are current.

I have no solution for the images. I just manaully delete them one at a
time


Brian

"Andrew G" <andy@electroline4u.com> wrote in message
news:b16p98$vf9$1@support.shopsite.com...
Ah I think I solved my first problem!

But if anyone knows about question #2, I'd be very interested to
hear....
thanks!


"Andrew G" <andy@electroline4u.com> wrote in message
news:b16i6f$v1s$1@support.shopsite.com...
I am finally upgrading this week from shopsite 4.1 to 6.2.

In the meantime I have made the mistake of trying to use 'power edit'
to
change alot of shipping weights all at once for about a 1000 products.
This
seems to have caused problems because my site will no longer publish
correctly. It hangs during 'partial re-index.' The result is I can't
publish
any new changes, be it new products, price changes, removing out of
stock
items... Totally screwed basically. Does anyone have any suggestions
on
how
to give shopsite a little kick to get clean through my store
generation?

The second question is this, because shopsite uses CGI to generate the
html
pages, when I delete products, it leaves those pages sitting on my
server
collecting dust and unfortunately collecting search engine hits as
well.
I
took over the site from the previous webmaster and soon realized there
are
about 200 or so of these orphaned product pages and their
corresponding
product images choking my server. So here's my question, does shopsite
6.2
or any future planned release have a solution for deleting unwanted
HTML
along with deleting it's corresponding image and database entry?

Thanks

Andrew Greaves

Webmaster
electroline4u.com

[Andrew G]

yeah the database gets cleared without problems, but the images are still
around. Since I inherited this site, I am paranoid to go in and start
deleting images based on a hunch they are old... but thanks for your HTML
files idea! that should help a bit with server congestion.

I've tried a few link checker utilities to check for orphaned files, but for
some reason the architecture of my site (probably not Shopsite's fault) is
such that all my files are marked as orphans.

Andrew




"Ben Ziegler" <ben@sewvacdirect.com> wrote in message
news:b1713o$vtv$1@support.shopsite.com...

Another way to get rid of your old html pages that is not quite so "scary"
(to me, deleting all html pages of a running website seems a little scary)
would be to first do a complete republish. Then, if you have ftp access
to
the htdoc folder on your server, view the folder by date created, and your
new pages will be at the bottom or top, and all with nearly the same
date/time stamp. Simply delete all the other pages, and you should be
free
and clear. As for old images, i've no idea how you would go about
deleting
them except by manually looking to see which are getting used.
The database should be cleared of old products if the products are deleted
from Shopsite shouldn't they?

Ben Ziegler
Sewvacdirect.com
Avid Shopsite user and fan

"Brian Williams" <netwerksguru@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b16qn9$vhk$1@support.shopsite.com...
I periodically delete all html pages and regenerate. That way all of my
pages are current.

I have no solution for the images. I just manaully delete them one at a
time


Brian

"Andrew G" <andy@electroline4u.com> wrote in message
news:b16p98$vf9$1@support.shopsite.com...
Ah I think I solved my first problem!

But if anyone knows about question #2, I'd be very interested to
hear....
thanks!


"Andrew G" <andy@electroline4u.com> wrote in message
news:b16i6f$v1s$1@support.shopsite.com...
I am finally upgrading this week from shopsite 4.1 to 6.2.

In the meantime I have made the mistake of trying to use 'power
edit'
to
change alot of shipping weights all at once for about a 1000
products.
This
seems to have caused problems because my site will no longer publish
correctly. It hangs during 'partial re-index.' The result is I can't
publish
any new changes, be it new products, price changes, removing out of
stock
items... Totally screwed basically. Does anyone have any suggestions
on
how
to give shopsite a little kick to get clean through my store
generation?

The second question is this, because shopsite uses CGI to generate
the
html
pages, when I delete products, it leaves those pages sitting on my
server
collecting dust and unfortunately collecting search engine hits as
well.
I
took over the site from the previous webmaster and soon realized
there
are
about 200 or so of these orphaned product pages and their
corresponding
product images choking my server. So here's my question, does
shopsite
6.2
or any future planned release have a solution for deleting unwanted
HTML
along with deleting it's corresponding image and database entry?

Thanks

Andrew Greaves

Webmaster
electroline4u.com

[David H]

If you delete a page in ShopSite then it will remove the corresponding HTML
page. However, More Info Product pages are not removed.

-David

"Andrew G" <andy@electroline4u.com> wrote in message
news:b16p98$vf9$1@support.shopsite.com...

Ah I think I solved my first problem!

But if anyone knows about question #2, I'd be very interested to hear....
thanks!


"Andrew G" <andy@electroline4u.com> wrote in message
news:b16i6f$v1s$1@support.shopsite.com...
I am finally upgrading this week from shopsite 4.1 to 6.2.

In the meantime I have made the mistake of trying to use 'power edit' to
change alot of shipping weights all at once for about a 1000 products.
This
seems to have caused problems because my site will no longer publish
correctly. It hangs during 'partial re-index.' The result is I can't
publish
any new changes, be it new products, price changes, removing out of
stock
items... Totally screwed basically. Does anyone have any suggestions on
how
to give shopsite a little kick to get clean through my store generation?

The second question is this, because shopsite uses CGI to generate the
html
pages, when I delete products, it leaves those pages sitting on my
server
collecting dust and unfortunately collecting search engine hits as well.
I
took over the site from the previous webmaster and soon realized there
are
about 200 or so of these orphaned product pages and their corresponding
product images choking my server. So here's my question, does shopsite
6.2
or any future planned release have a solution for deleting unwanted HTML
along with deleting it's corresponding image and database entry?

Thanks

Andrew Greaves

Webmaster
electroline4u.com