I just started a blog , and after a couple paragraphs, I sit some key (I'm not sure which), and my entire post disappeared (this happened in Radio's editor) and , of course, not uploaded, so I lost the whole freakin' thing. It pissed me off, and so now I'm ranting about it. So there. Now I move on.
Recently in My Radio Trials Category
Is there a way to have Radio's Home Page show list of postings to Categories, so I won't have to write an entry on the front page to inform readers that "an article about such and such has been added" to "x category" ?
Radio still won't create directories via its FTP. Why not? I notice this whenever there's a new month, and Radio won't create a new directory for the archives. It's driving me batty!
Borrowed from a Google User Group when I did e search in groups.google.com using:
not "asp pages"
A common problem when ASP pages do not display (but html
pages do) is that the password of the IIS
IWAM_computername user is not syncing properly.
Authentication/permissions to ASP pages is a complex area,
but this particular problem is easy to remedy and, I
think, well worth trying. To check this, do the following.
1.) Temporarily assign the IIS anonymous accounts
(IUSR_computername and IWAM_computername) to the machine's
Administrator group. For Win 2K, do this as follows:
a.) Go to Settings, Control Panel, select
Administrative Tools.
b.) Double-click 'Computer Management',
expand 'Local Users and Groups', double-click 'Users'.
c.) Select (double-click) IUSR_computer name
account, select 'Member of' tab, click 'Add' button,
highlight 'Administrator' (group), click 'Apply'.
d.) Repeat above procedure for IWAM_computer
name account.
2.) Navigate to the following file -
C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\synciwam.vbs
Execute this file by double-clicking it. The hourglass
will display momentarily and then disappear. No other
indication of the program running will appear.
3.) Reboot the workstation. If this was indeed the
problem, ASP pages should now render fine.
4.) Don't forget to remove the IIS anonymous
accounts from the Administrator group.
Another request for ideas on why Radio doesn't want to upload every morning (it takes about 4 or 5 tries each "session" --- IOW, it's not just in the morning, but anytime I haven't uploaded anything in x number of hours---- see this post in my section on Radio Trials. My FTP client seems to have no problem creating directories.
I'll just keep askin' until the right person sees it: I'm still working on getting Radio "stories" into my MT blog.
Continue reading Radio Stories to Movable Type.
my WeblogData.root file seems to be OK after the Data compacting process hung up when it hit this file.. at least from what I could tell by the dispaly in the Status bar of the Radio app. It seems Ok becuase I went back and edited my very first Radio entry from June 2, 2002. It all seemed to re-publish just fine. My weblogdata.root file is 5626 KB. The only way I could get the hourglass to stop was to trerminate the Radio app from the Windows Task Manager. When I restrted Radio, all my data seems fine (ie. the edit of the very first entry went fine, and a new entry went up fine, which seems that would take care of the beinning and end of the file).
I can no longer compact my data files (well, all of them will except for WeblogData.root
Each time I try, the Radio app stops responding.
Let's see how the old publishing speed is today with radio. 1,2,3 blastoff (10:23am by my pc clock....later, 10:28....still no post up on my site.....THIS is getting REALLY OLD........10:36, after posting the post that will be AFTER this one, I see that this post finally got out here.....10 -15 minutes. Not exactly stellar. )
Well, another problem (which seems to happening a lot lately also: My Radio icon in my tray at the lower right has gone bye-bye. I can't right click on it to tsee the status of my post (I watch the progress this way, to see what's showing in the status bar of the little radio app that comes up when I right-click on the icon . Now how do I get that back without rebooting? Seems like there'd be a file I can run to get it going again. If I post that question to the Radio support discussion, it might take 3 posts and a week to get an answer, so if anybody resding my feed can see this , HELP!!
When I moved the previous post in this section from the home page to this category, Radio uploaded all the archive files since 4/10 again before finaly posting the index.html and rss.xml file for the - My Radio Trials - category. Go figure. The files had been put there as late as yesterday, so why the "reupstreaming"?
Radio is up to the same tricks today. Edit a post, post to weblog, no change to weblog (except that it sends the archive file into my/2003/04/19.html, but still no new index.html for my home page. Very cool.
This post didn't go at all, archive or index.html the first time I pushed "Post to Weblog" (as of 3:09pm). (l2 minurtes later: after submitting this paragraph, index.html went, along with all of Aprils's 2003/04/01.html through 19.html. I must admit, I'm totaly in the dark as to what might be happening. And why it takes three edit/new post submisisons to "Goose" radio into coughing up the new index.html file, I do not know)
The entire process took about 30 minutes, to update one post and add ONE new one. 30 minutes later, my chages are all there. I also notice that my machine hard drive light continues to churn and no apps can be run for at least a minute after all the icons have loaded, and from the looks of the Process Tab in the Windows Task Manager, it seems to be Radio that's generating all the activity, jumping back and forth between System Idel Process and Radio.exe for CPU cycle usage percentage honors.
FootBridge has a few problems from where I sit. When you "Edit" a post and resubmit it, it re-sends another new post to Movable Type. That won't do.
Footbridge Doesn't Seem to like my Category List. I tried it first with one Category (Cluetrain) and Home Page. When I entered the parameters needed to send them to Movable Type, the application (Footbridge) saved the CLuetrain settings but not the "Home Page" settings. A Cluetrain categoryposting worked and appeared on MT, but the Home Page entry did not appear on MT. I wrote Mark Paschal about it, after he was nice enough to reply quickly to me on my initial setup questions.
Oh, BTW, A Frog in the Valley was the one who posted a comment telling me about Footbridge. I wonder how many categories they work with?
- For days , my postings take an hour or so to finally post to my site. Radio semes to have schizophrenic problems, going back and re-posting archive files from 4/01 and forward, even though those postings 2003/04/01.html through today, have already gone out. I turned off XML archiving, and then turned it back on last night before hitting the sack, and this morning I see that most of the archiving happened --FINALLY ---but upon my first post attempt today, Radio showed that it was trying to upload another XML file...but upon checking that file in its destination (C:\Program Files\Radio UserLand\backups\weblogArchive) , the file seems to have been completed. I'll try turning archiving back on after I post this entry, and hopefully it will go without a hitch now that Radio seems to have become agreeable again and posting things when I hit "Post to Weblog".
Are there some FTP problems here? I have seen no difference in performance with any of my other FTP apps between the hosting provider I was previously using, and the present one. With Radio, it seems to have problems posting to the same FTP site. All of these problems seem to have started when I switched hosts. But why does it do "partial uploads" (ie. posting the permalink archive file but not the index.html file? The main problem seems to be all the "cleanup" or "catchup" Radio keps thinking it has to do before posting the entry that I am trying to "Post to Weblog".
Finally, archiving began last night around 1 am. This was the third or fourth time I had turned XML archiving off and then on again. Right now, I am looking at the asynchRPC in the status bar of the Radio application, and it has shown "Writing XML version of post #1606 for the past 10-15 minutes. My home page entry that I submitted has not yet updated. This is why I am pleading for a first priority on posting weblog entries just made instead of placing these lower in priority than certain cleanup tasks Radio thinks it must do. So....I'm going to post this entry now, and see if that "unsticks" the writing of XML version of post #1606 (which is still showing as current activity)....maybe if I turn archiving off for a moment, and repost?
MOvable Type importing: What's the best way to get my Radio Weblog into MT? Ideally, I would like to cross post to both for a while. Can MT send postings to Radio as well? What about Categories? MT has them. Do they work the same way as in Radio, or how are they different.
Archiving XML has jot happened since 8/20/02. I turned this on about 3-4 days ago, and nothing has archived. Any ideas?
It would be nice to have an automatic category selector for the navbar, so that when a category is added, a checkbox is available to "add it to the nav bar", which would then update the templates...but that would require a full re-upstream again, which is one of the reasons why a server application is preferrable to a desktop solution.
I never noticed before Radio having a problem creating a new Category directory. When I created one under my "Cateogories" folder for "movableType", then the index files and the rest went up. What's the deal?
The tool I found here
When I try to run http://127.0.0.1:5335/exporter/ by clicking the link "exportMT", I get this:
ExportMT
[Macro error: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "usetitle" hasn't been defined.]
Finally, all is uploaded (until next time). There needs to be, very badly, a way to head this off, like a confirmation page that allows one to check off what files you don't want uplaoded (aside from making an #upstream.xml file for each subdirectory), and also a way to set the files for "overnight upload" or on a timer so that they all get done at some "unbusy time".
I think I found the problem. I had changed my ftp server name to ftp.theoblogical.org, but not the path the root folder, and apparently changing to my new domain name on the ftp server also changed the relative path. Don't know why that would be, but apparently was... the correct path is: /therootdirectory_theycreated/dlature/dlature/.....
Radio needs an upstreaming manager application. Checkboxes to designate what files are eligible/ineligible , and checkboxes for entire categories and stories. Most of the time, I just want the home page and its permalink file to update. Isn't there a way also to set the "big uploads" on a timer, and have it upload more than 25, so I don't have to be there to keep goosing it over and over? This gets real old..... It woulb be nice to be able to check a box that would , in effect, set an upstream file with the "NO" option to a category or directory, so that these files would not be required to be uploaded until I , say, added a file to that section, in which case it would bypass or turn off the "NO" and upload the new stuff, then turn back off.
home...still uploading the whole shootin' match before this updates
Okay, today, nothing is uploading again. I add a new entry, press "Post to Weblog", and nothing happens. No home page update, no category update (if I try to submit it with "My Radio Trials" checked in order to post it there as well as on the home page). What is happening?
This text is not showing up on my home page, but does show up in the permalinks....UHHH, there it is. What the ____is going on? All day today, until that last test (this entry), I was not getting my home page updated. What was happening? I wish I knew. Of course, John Robb got there to look AFTER whatver it was fixed itself. Thanks, anyway, John. You also alerted me to my redirect problem, which is now fixed...thanks for the heads up. This entry is going into the My Radio Trials section
Help me with my Radio Userland Problem! My Radio sofware will not upstream anything. It doesn't render the pages, therefore none of my html pages are getting updated. What could be happening? Radio CAN make contact with the FTP sever, and upload files, but since none of the new entries are being rendered, then none of the new content is being added to the page, which should happen when I add new content. What can I look into to find what is not set correctly?
David Davies: "I've repackaged my picture gallery script as a tool. I've also renamed it assetManager tool. The reason for this name change will be more apparent over the next few days. For now though it's a fully functional picture gallery tool."
Outline experiment
Subscription list added at the right (Didn't notice when I lost that....now it's back, I hope)....now check it out....
