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Posted by RICHARD BROMBERG on 06/07/06 15:19
Alan
The Mcafee Site Advisor warns that http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
will download unwanted spyware, and other junk so I don't think I will use
it.
Mcafee Site Advisor is a free download that rates websites for safety.
Check it out.
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.64.0606071416060.7218@ppepc20.ph.gla.ac.uk...
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, RICHARD BROMBERG wrote:
>
> > Their work habits were no better than mine and now there are dozens
> > of images that were uploaded to the Host and likewise dozens of old
> > HTML files that are completely orphaned, i.e. nothing references
> > them.
> >
> > Does anyone have a suggestion or know of a utility that will
> > identify these unused files so I can clean up the site.
>
> Recent versions of Xenu link checker can do that
> http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html
>
> A fast and generally recommended link checker, but it has some known
> shortcomings. It uses Windows' own routines for accessing URLs, and
> they perform some silent fixups (e.g correcting "\" to "/") before the
> link checker gets to see them, which means those kind of broken link
> cannot be found.
>
> See http://members.chello.nl/f.visser3/xenu/10-orphaned-files.html for
> thirdparty documentation.
>
> However, a comment I found elsewhere says that the ophan check doesn't
> recognise images that are only called-out from a stylesheet.
>
>
> Personally, when getting rid of believed-to-be-orphaned files, I
> set their filemode on the server so that the HTTPD cannot read them,
> and then watch out for any corresponding errors in the logs for a
> while, before finally deleting them. That way, it's easy to reinstate
> any that weren't really orphaned.
>
> h t h
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