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How to Copy a FrontPage 2003 Website to a Local Hard Disk

Use this step-by-step guide to copy a Website to a local computer by using the Publish feature in Microsoft® Office FrontPage 2003.

For a Microsoft® FrontPage 2002 version of this article, see 310620 .

Copy a Website to a Local Computer

To copy a Website to a local computer, follow these steps:

  1. Start FrontPage 2003.
  2. On the File menu, click Open Site to open the Website that you want to copy to the local hard disk.
  3. On the File menu, click Publish Site.
  4. In the Remote Website Properties window, click File System, and then select either of the following options:
    • In the Remote Website location box, type the path of the local folder where you want to copy the Web. Use the following syntax where DriveLetter is the physical hard disk drive letter and FolderName is the name of the folder on your hard disk:
      DriveLetter:\FolderName

    • Click Browse, locate the starting page of the Website that you want to import, click the starting page, and then click Open. The starting page can be any page in the Website, not just the home page.

      Note If you published this Website previously, the Publish Destination dialog box does not appear. Go to step 5.

    • Click OK.
    • Specify the pages that you want to publish. To do this, follow these steps:
      1. In the Local Website pane, right-click each file that you do not want to publish, and then click Don’t Publish.
      2. Under the Remote Website pane, under Publish all changed pages, click Remote to local.
      3. Above the Remote Website pane, click Optimize Published HTML, and then click the Publishing tab.
      4. In the General section, select the Publish and the Changes options that you want.
      5. If you want to create a log file for changes made during publishing, click to select the Log changes during publish check box.
      6. To publish a subsite, click to select the Include subsites check box.
      7. Click OK.
    • Click Publish Website.

Import a Website by Using the Import Website Wizard

To import files from an existing Website to your computer by using the Import Website Wizard, follow these steps:

  1. On the File menu, click Import.
  2. In the Import dialog box, click From Site.
  3. In the Import Website Wizard, click HTTP.

  4. In the Website Location box, type the location of the site that you want to import. For example, type http://example.com in the Website Location box.

    Note You can also click Browse, locate the starting page of the Website that you want to import, click the starting page, and then click Open. The starting page can be any page in the Website, not just the home page.

  5. Click Next, and then follow the instructions in the Import Website Wizard.

Note: In FrontPage 2003 the publishing procedure, including all dependent files, is done automatically as part of the importing process on an extended Website. In earlier versions of FrontPage the user had to publish the Website to import all the files.

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft® Office FrontPage 2003

Microsoft® Knowledge Base Article – 825448


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