Very confused over yyyyyyyyyyyy's

Would really appreciate any suggestions or help on this one please as I missing something somewhere.

I've built and saved a website using Dreamweaver 4 on WinXP Pro, using ordinary text formatting and tables but not frames. In doing a final check before uploading it, although the pages opened perfectly before, suddenly, for some reason all I get on the page is a constant line of letter y's, yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy and so on accross the page. This happens in IE, MSWord, notepad, everything. If I try and open the page in Dreamweaver, all I get is the same thing both in the code and design windows, therefore I can't open the pages to ascerain what the problem might be.

I have checked the site files and the page sizes are correct. I have re-defined the site, recreated the site cache, but all to no avail.

A sitewide links check tells me that all the links are orphaned.

Tearing my hair out because this is a months work, some 40 odd pages, for my new SME employer. I prudently saved the files out to a CD as I went along. but although the files on the CD opened perfectly when I checked them before, now they don't and are displaying the same yyyyyyyyyy result as the files on my hard drive.

Please, any suggestions would be really welcome. I've searched through helps and hints but haven't identified anything to help.

Dan

"DanCarey" webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:

Would really appreciate any suggestions or help on this one please as I missing something somewhere.

I've built and saved a website using Dreamweaver 4 on WinXP Pro, using ordinary text formatting and tables but not frames. In doing a final check before uploading it, although the pages opened perfectly before, suddenly, for some reason all I get on the page is a constant line of letter y's, yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy and so on accross the page. This happens in IE, MSWord, notepad, everything. If I try and open the page in Dreamweaver, all I get is the same thing both in the code and design windows, therefore I can't open the pages to ascerain what the problem might be.

I have checked the site files and the page sizes are correct. I have re-defined the site, recreated the site cache, but all to no avail.

A sitewide links check tells me that all the links are orphaned.

Tearing my hair out because this is a months work, some 40 odd pages, for my new SME employer. I prudently saved the files out to a CD as I went along. but although the files on the CD opened perfectly when I checked them before, now they don't and are displaying the same yyyyyyyyyy result as the files on my hard drive.

Please, any suggestions would be really welcome. I've searched through helps and hints but haven't identified anything to help.

Dan

Clean you keyboard, or get a new.
The "y" is probably stuck.

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Come to think of it:
A proper ending for your post would have been: "Why?" :-)

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What character encoding are you using?

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"DanCarey" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Would really appreciate any suggestions or help on this one please as I
missing something somewhere.

I've built and saved a website using Dreamweaver 4 on WinXP Pro, using
ordinary text formatting and tables but not frames. In doing a final check

before uploading it, although the pages opened perfectly before, suddenly,
for some reason all I get on the page is a constant line of letter y's,
yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy and so on accross the page. This
happens in IE, MSWord, notepad, everything. If I try and open the page in
Dreamweaver, all I get is the same thing both in the code and design
windows, therefore I can't open the pages to ascerain what the problem might
be.

I have checked the site files and the page sizes are correct. I have
re-defined the site, recreated the site cache, but all to no avail.

A sitewide links check tells me that all the links are orphaned.

Tearing my hair out because this is a months work, some 40 odd pages, for
my new SME employer. I prudently saved the files out to a CD as I went

along. but although the files on the CD opened perfectly when I checked them
before, now they don't and are displaying the same yyyyyyyyyy result as the
files on my hard drive.

Please, any suggestions would be really welcome. I've searched through
helps and hints but haven't identified anything to help.

Dan

In article <blefu8$l08$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com> , "DanCarey"
webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com wrote:

Please, any suggestions would be really welcome. I've searched through
helps and hints but haven't identified anything to help.

This is certainly mysterious.

Y is it happening? I wish I were ys enough to know....

(Sorry, couldn't help it.)

1) Do you have any other sites which display correctly?

2) You say when you backed up the files and then looked at them they were
fine at one time, but now show only ys. This can only mean that there is
something on your system that has changed which is causing this. Have you
tried opening a file from the backup CD on another machine?

3) Do ther files, like regular WP files if you have them, also show yyyyy?
Or is it only the files from this one site?

Email me one of the yyyy files and I'll see what happens when I open it on
my system.

-- James M. Shook
http://www.jshook.com

What on every saved page when previous page openings were perfect?

Oh...

I get it!

Your a comedian!

Most amusing.

Many thanks.

Many thanks for replying.
I am using "Western (Latin 1)" All the other fields within the page properties dialogue box are blank.
Dan

Typically you will see this kind of thing when a 'bit flips'. This means
some ASCII value less than 128 (i.e., the 8th bit is zero) has suddenly had
its 8th bit set to 1, instantly converting an ASCII 20 to ASCII 148 - or
something like that. Why do bits flip? Static? Bad Karma? I dunno....

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"DanCarey" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Many thanks for replying.
I am using "Western (Latin 1)" All the other fields within the page
properties dialogue box are blank.
Dan

Thanks James, I got the joke - I just couldn't tell if it was a windup or not.

The other site still works fine.

The sytem did hang last week whilst doing an online XP update and a virus checker update, and had to be re-started a few times before it became stable again. But I haven't attributed this to the CD which was not in the drive.

I will email over one of the pages as soon as I can.

Thanks again

1) Other sites display correctly

2) Opening backup CD on other machine yields the same result

3) It is only the files from this one site that shows nothing but yyyyyy's

I am using Western (latin 1) encoding (switching to others made no difference
The style sheet is no longer attached and reattaching doesn't solve the problem.
Have tried attaching two pages and stylesheet for you as requested but forum won't let me upload as attachments they are in html. Shall I email them 2 you directly?

Thanks

Dan