I have run into some very peculiar GL9 behavior on a couple of old
sites. Maybe it is something in the sites themselves that #9 can't
handle. But it scares me a bit. I had encountered it before when I
was messing around with that one page CSS art site, and it was the
reason I quit. I figured nobody ought to be building a page with a
hundred hide and seek layers on it anyway. (Show-Hide Action).

But yesterday, I was really glad I make backups, because I
thought I'd fix a small error on a client's site that had been turned
over to the client's bother in law.

It was a small formatting thing. The page was in tables. All I did
was to re- link something. Simple. So I did it live, since It was
so simple. Then I saved the page and it had spasms, turned black,
switched between source code and WYSYWYG twice, and then settled
down in WSYWYG with the table cells all collapsed that the images re-
sized to be about 1/5th their height and running clear across the
page in a streak.

So I hauled out my backup, and with trepidation, made two
additional backups of the whole site, one of them on another disk,
opened it up, and fortunately made three or four backup copies
of the home page. Every time I tried to relink those links, it die
the same dance and screwed up the whole page. I tried it over and
over with the same result.

I trashed the preferences and it still did it. I deleted the site
files and made a complete new site. Same thing. I changed
disks and used the GL9 installation on my backup disk. Same thing.

So I closed GL9 and launched GL 8 (CS2) . No problem. I think the
site was originally made in GL 6. I didn't have 6 or 7 installed,
but 8 worked just fine and no heebie jeebies and messed up page.

Does anyone have any explanation or theories on this?

Doug

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