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FP98: What Are Orphaned Files and How Do You Identify Them?

Article ID: 202154

Article Last Modified on 12/1/2000

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SUMMARY

An orphaned file is a file in a web that is not linked to any other file in the web. An orphaned file can be any type of file, such as an HTML document, an image, or a binary data file.

An orphaned file is not an unlinked file. There may be multiple links among a whole web of orphaned files. What makes a file an orphaned file is that by following any and all hyperlinks present in the home page, and then following any and all hyperlinks from all subsequent link levels reached from the home page, the orphaned file is not reachable.

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How FrontPage Determines Which Files Are Orphaned Files

FrontPage parses the default.htm document, looking for anchor HREF attributes (for example, <A HREF="/?scid=page2.htm">) and IMG SRC attributes (for example, <IMG SRC="pic.gif">). FrontPage then moves to those linked files and parses them in the same way.

FrontPage marks all files that are not found in this process as orphaned files.

To see which files are orphaned files:
  1. In FrontPage Explorer, click the View menu, and then click All Files.
  2. In the Orphan column, all files marked as Yes are orphaned files. All files marked as No are not orphaned files.

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