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Carmine Castiglia
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Duplicate Files / Folders in FrontPage Folder List
I put this here so that I'd never have to go looking for it again!

It's happened to me a couple of times over the last few years - files and or folders appearing twice in the "Folder List" on the left side of the FrontPage window.

If you maintain more than one website, you will probably have this problem with only one of them - or maybe not. If you run FrontPage on more than one PC and use it to maintain the same sites, you may have the problem on just one PC or on all of them.

There is no (obvious) rhyme or reason to it - some files or folders are duplicated while others are not. And, what's worse, is that each time you start FrontPage and load the troublesome site the problem may (or may not!) affect different files and/or folders.

Try to delete one of the duplicates and FrontPage crashes. Try to use a FTP client to delete the duplicates and you'll find that they don't exist in the physical sense - they are a figment of FrontPage's binary imagination.

So, just what is the solution? First, make certain that FrontPage is not running. Then, using the Windows "Search" or "Find Files and Folders" tool, search for all "*.web" files on your drive and delete the ones associated with the problem sites.

That's it. Problem solved.

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