(I have experienced the following problem with Visual Page. My solution
follows.)
a. Files refuse to open. Error messages such as "An unknown error occurred while accessing an unnamed
file" or "A sharing violation occurred while accessing an unnamed file" appear. Removing Visual
Page and reinstalling does not change anything.
The files that will not open are often referred to as "untitled".
b. Solution:
Create a new html file as a test file
Close the new file
Attempt to open the newly created file: it does open!
Print out a copy of the html code for the working file (open w/notepad)
Compare this with the code of the files that will not open by opening them in
Notepad (or any basic text editor).
It is found that the files that will not open have two or more <META>
statements following the <HEAD> statement
Fix: Remove the first <META> statement and leave the one that reads as
follows: <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Visual Page 2.0 for
Windows"
Also, notice the <TITLE> statement. It may give the title as:
<TITLE>untitled</TITLE>
Replace 'untitled' with the proper title of the document.
c. Possible Cause
I originally wrote the html files directly using Visual Page. I did not start by
creating a "Project". The 'project' seems to be one of the Visual Page
features that allows you to organize and keep track of your web page.
After creating all of my pages this way, I attempted to create a project.
This may have somehow rounded up all of my preexisting pages and added
the second META statement to them. This caused the file to fail to open
because it looked like two files were trying to open at the same time.
I also worked on some files using Microsoft Word. Word inserts its own statements of ownership. These may be causing the problem. Any ideas? E-mail me.