# Publish Woes - Unable to test

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/publish-woes-unable-to-test/47811>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [May 28, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/publish-woes-unable-to-test/47811 "2025-05-28T19:52:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Cavu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@Cavu](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Cavu)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/publish-woes-unable-to-test/47811/1 "2025-05-28T19:52:52Z")

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Evening All

Odd one - not seen before.

A file ( RWC 9.5.0 ) - that won’t publish, it won’t even test the FTP connection…

The file is good - or at least was good, its been published plenty of times.

What’s weird is - I can use exactly the same credentials on another file and it works perfectly - as expected.

Perhaps the files corrupted? Maybe, so I went to earlier versions - exactly the same.

So - I then thought - ahhhh - let’s just copy the contents to a new fresh file… but of course, RW doesn’t make that easy if you’re using subfolders to organise stuff - unless of course, someone could enlighten me?

Thanks all!

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**Author:** ![Cavu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@Cavu](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Cavu)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/publish-woes-unable-to-test/47811/2 "2025-05-28T20:22:45Z")

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OK - I’m an idiot ( its been a long day… I blame the recent update… blah ) but for some reason the FTP mode had flipped to Active as opposed to the default Extended Passive… doh

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**Author:** ![MikeSA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@MikeSA](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MikeSA)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/publish-woes-unable-to-test/47811/3 "2025-05-29T09:16:32Z")

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I am experiencing intermittent “publishing” issues since the latest Classic update [I am running v 9.5.0 (21134)] – the frustrating spinning “beachball”.

I have to force quit Classic and start up again. Prior to this update, hitting “Publish” started immediately and ran smoothly.

For context, I am running Sequioa and the site is saved to OneDrive.

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**Author:** ![Pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Pete](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Pete)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/publish-woes-unable-to-test/47811/4 "2025-05-29T13:38:10Z")

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I get this error message when trying to view:

 ![Screenshot 2025-05-29 at 9.36.16 AM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/uploads/realmacsoftware1/original/3X/c/3/c3d2c541038eac146b030abc218717d9d9f800db.png)  
Using RW 9.5

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**Author:** ![Pegasus](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/pegasus/32/25035_2.png) [@Pegasus](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Pegasus)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/publish-woes-unable-to-test/47811/5 "2025-05-29T13:49:48Z")

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> [@MikeSA](#):
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> For context, … … … and the site is saved to OneDrive.

that could be the problem. try it from your hard disk