| Rearranging
Your Site (Move Commands)
Moving
Folders, Discussions, Links and Chat Rooms Using Export
Moving Discussions, Threads or Messages
Moving by Exporting and then Importing
Using Export/Import to Move a Whole Database
Resources
You
can move entire folder, discussions, links and chat rooms, and
you can move individual messages or threads of messages from one
discussion to another.
There
are a variety of ways to accomplish the same thing.
Moving Folders, Discussions, Links and Chat Rooms Using Export
If you
click Export and then Export, move, delete or purge
selected items while you're within a folder, you get a list
of everything contained in that folder, with checkboxes next to
them to identify which objects you want to move.
With
the checkboxes, select the items you want to move, choose the
destination folder from the popup menu, and click Move.
The items are moved directly without an export/import sequence.
The unique IDs will remain the same so your internal links should
still work.
You can
also move folders and discussions using the Move button,
described next.
Moving
Discussions, Threads, or Messages
To move
whole discussions, threads of messages, or individual messages,
click on the small Move button next to the Edit
and Delete buttons. The page will reload, instructing you
to navigate to the discussion or folder you want to move the item
to. Find the location, and then click the To here button,
which is up near the Mark button. You'll get a confirm
screen. Click OK and the item(s) will appear in the new
location.
If you
move an individual message, or a group of messages, to a folder,
you'll create a new discussion with them.
If you
move a number of messages into an existing discussion, the new
messages will be tacked onto the end of the old discussion, no
matter what the creation dates of the old and new messages are.
| Note:
If anyone has bookmarked a message at the old location, their
bookmarks will not follow to the new location, but will continue
to point to whatever new message fills up that location after
the move. |
Moving
by Exporting and then Importing
It's
possible to move discussions, folders, and chat rooms within Web
Crossing without using the Move button or the Export area's
Move function. To do this, export the items from where they currently
are held. Navigate to the place you want them to appear, and import
them.
UniqueIDs
(and thus any internal links) will be preserved if and only
if you export and immediately import the material and no new
discussions, folders, or chat rooms are created before you do
the import.
Using
Export and Import to Move a Whole Database
There
are several reasons you might need to export the whole site and
reimport it, either to the same server or to another location.
- If
you have database corruption, it can usually be remedied with
an export of the entire site and a
subsequent reimport of the SGML
file. See Restoring Corrupted Data
for details.
- If
you're moving to or from a Tru64 server machine, you'll need
to do an export from the old server, and import to the new server.
See Moving Databases for details.
Resources
Sysop
Documentation
Sysop Control Panel
Sysop Control Panel
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