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- Recovery Procedure
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- This document provides steps to be used on .nod files under the following conditions:
- o 2.x .nod files which need to be migrated into 3.0
- o 2.x .nod files migrated to 3.0, which are found to contain an instability
- o 3.0 files which would benefit from file validation and compaction
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- NOTE: If you use this method, please be aware of the following known issue:
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- Components - most will import. However, if some do not, or if some import
- and do not function correctly, you will be able to delete them and add them again.
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- 1. Open NetObjects Fusion 3.0.
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- 2. From the File menu, select Open Site, select your .nod file, and click Open.
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- a. if your .nod file is in 2.x format, a warning dialog asks if
- you want to open a copy instead. Click Yes, enter a new name
- for the .nod file, and save it to the same folder as the
- original .nod. Your site opens in NetObjects Fusion 3.0.
- It is now in 3.0 format.
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- 4. Make a new blank site. From the File menu, select New Site, Blank Site,
- enter a new name, and click Save.
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- You will be in Site View and will have a single page called Home.
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- 5. In Site view, from the File menu, select Import Template and open your
- .nod file referenced in step 2 above. To see .nod files in the Import
- Template dialog, change 'Files of Type' to NetObjects Fusion Files (*.nod).
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- Your site is now in NetObjects Fusion 3.0, but it has two Home pages.
- The second Home page is your site's original Home page. The top Home page
- is a new, blank Home page. In the following steps, you copy the contents
- of the second Home page to the first Home page, move all the second Home
- page's child pages under the first Home page, and then delete the extra
- Home page.
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- 6. Click the second Home page from the top and go to Page view. Click
- in the MasterBorder to bring up General tab of the MasterBorder
- Properties palette. Note which Masterborder was in use on this old Home
- page in the Name field, so that it can be assigned to the new Home page.
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- 7. Click the Layout area, and from the Edit menu, first choose Select All
- and then select Copy to copy all the Layout's contents.
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- 8. Go to the top Home page in Page View. Click in the upper left of the
- layout and from the Edit menu, choose Paste.
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- 9. Assign the correct MasterBorder to your new Home page. Click in the
- MasterBorder and select the old Home page's MasterBorder from the drop
- down menu on the General tab.
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- 10. In Site view, drag and drop all of the pages on the third level
- underneath the first Home page, so that they are child-level pages of
- the first Home page.
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- 11. Once the second Home page has no children, click on it and press Delete,
- and confirm the deletion.
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- 12. Go to Style view and set the style you want to apply to this site.
- If the style appears blank, select Style | Add Style to List..., find and
- open the style's .ssf file, and it will be imported into the current file.
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- 13. Click on the style you imported and click "Set Style."
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- 14. You may now continue development on your site file.