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Re: Farewell NetObjects 10 - there are too many bugs and crashes for me
For what it's worth, I use 10 daily with zero issues.
I have a Dual Core system with max ram for Vista. Which no doubt helps
performance.
I never paste in content which probably helps most of all. (-;
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"Roger" <hughes_roger@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:frbusb$3lj3@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
> I've just dumped my trial version of NO 10 because it was just too slow. I
> have been with NOF since 2 and seen it grow with all sorts of add-on's,
> some good, some just cosmetic. I now think it is too unreliable and I
> suspect they introduced re-optimisation to solve the multiple crashings.
> But that in its'self is very erratic on both 9 and 10. I don't have a
> problem with the methodology, but now I'm spending half my time waiting of
> stuff to happen. There has to be a more reliable programme out there
> similar to NOF and not a complicated as Dreamweaver.
>
> "bw" <bw@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:fquf0i$cu02@flsun90netnews01.netobjects.com.. .
>> Goodbye to NOF 10. I've been using NetObjects for 3 years now and have
>> begun the search for a more stable alternative. (Recreating my NOF 10
>> sites in NOF 9 might be an option, but any suggestions would be welcome.)
>>
>> Lately my experience with NOF is that it has too many serious bugs that
>> have destroyed several of my sites. NOF crashed 3 of my websites
>> recently when I re-optimized them. These were relatively small sites
>> with 3 to 5 pages and without any flash, forms, etc. And I had another
>> site that when I clicked the Publish button, the FTP box would not
>> display and the whole Page Design area would go blank. After I started
>> having problems I uninstalled and reinstalled NOF 10 and then updated it
>> to update #3 again. I built 3 more brand new test sites and NOF crashed
>> those 3 sites too--all when re-optimized.
>>
>> When I re-optimized I got the following error messages:
>> 1) NOF has encountered a problem and needs to close.
>> 2) NOF has detected an unstable file and will now recover your site.
>> 3) The current SiteStyle has been deleted. Please set a new Sitestyle.
>> 4) The Automatic Backup folder for this file doesn't exist. (There was a
>> backup folder before NOF crashed.)
>> 5) Recovery was successful
>> 6) Damaged objects have been found on the page and have been deleted.
>>
>> So when I opened the "recovered" site, all of my pages except the Home
>> page had been deleted and the Home page was completly blank with no text
>> and no style. In other words, everything was gone.
>>
>> I submitted a ticket to Website Pros and sent them a template of one of
>> the new sites I created. Website Pros said that NetObjects crashed the
>> site for them too. When I asked them for more information what the
>> problem was with the site and why the site crashed (so I could determine
>> how to fix my other sites so that they would not crash), the response I
>> received was:
>>
>> "I am not sure I can answer your questions; we cannot state that we offer
>> a perfect web site builder, as we improve it on a continuous basis -
>> releasing fixes, updates, that solve issues - speaking of which we have
>> an Update #4 in the pre-release mode, if you want to try it:
>> http://netobjects.com/html/pre-release.html. Unfortunately sometimes
>> sites become corrupted, or site sections (pages/objects) - this can
>> happen for various reasons, depending on the site structure, on how large
>> it is, on the time you spent working continuously on the site, on how
>> often you saved the site, how often you switched views, etc."
>>
>> I can't continue to use a product that can corrupt a site based upon "the
>> time you spent working continously on the site, on how often you saved
>> the site, how often you switched views, etc."
>>
>> Brian
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