Publishing Insists upon republishing all 5143 pages!

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Thanks.

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This may be a bit of a red herring but thatā€™s a really old theme youā€™re using. The Clean theme from RW. I wonder if itā€™s finally starting to play up after all those years of service?

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Itā€™s still listed in the theme library under RW8 and it still seems to work, more reliably than Facebook, which I realize isnā€™t really saying that much.

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The publishing logs come as three files attached to an email addressed to RWSupport. Problem is, one of those files is 7GB and another nearly 50MG. Canā€™t send files that big. david

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You can place them in a folder on a cloud-based server like OneDrive, Sync, Dropbox, etc, etc and grab the shared link and send that. Iā€™m on an iPad now, but if I remember there is a clear support logs, I think itā€™s in the help menu item.

If you clear them and then republish the logs should be much smaller.

Tagging @dan, @Aaron and @tpbradley this will let them know theyā€™re coming.

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Iā€™m pretty sure it was included in the first version of RW I bought which was 3.6. I still wouldnā€™t be surprised if it wasnā€™t at least partly to blame for the problem youā€™re experiencing.

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The Clean theme is listed in the Classic section of the theme library, so although itā€™s included I think itā€™s more there to help users change from that old theme to newer versions.

It hasnā€™t been updated in quite sometime and isnā€™t responsive, I know there is the adage of ainā€™t broke, donā€™t fix it but so much has changed it since 2006, maybe a new and up to date theme may not be a bad idea.

Hopefully the log files will yield an insight to your issues.

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Yes. Thanks again. Republishing to generate fresh logs.

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Itā€™s puzzling, because no obsolescence notice went out to users. How would a regular user, like me, for instance, know their theme was out-dated? I appreciate learning and I might just upload the thing using a newer Theme, though I sure wish one of the newer ones was a clean as the one Iā€™ve been using. Thanks for your interest and help.

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Moving to a more modern theme would certainly help people who visit the site using mobile devices since the Clean theme isnā€™t responsive.

Iā€™d try and get to the bottom of your publishing problem first and then perhaps consider a switch. There are plenty of ā€˜cleanā€™ themes, for example this one, that you might consider.

Good luck.

Rob

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RW Tech Supportā€™s been unresponsive, so I looked back at their advice for the last RW problem I reported. They advised that I restart my computer. I did, and the switch apparently reset itself. I know that this fix is the rough equivalent of whacking on the machine with a ball peen hammer, but it seems to have worked. The Publishing function had otherwise ceased functioning.

Thanks for the helpful advice and perspectives. As a result of this difficulty I now know that my theme is outdated. Iā€™ve learned what the term responsive means in a RW context. Iā€™ve started shopping for a newer theme, though the prospect of spending the next couple of years stabilizing a new theme seems daunting. david

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I experience this from time to time so interested in this post. Normally when I publish, RW will only publish the changed pages in my project. My scenario today was updating 2 pages (one of which was an Easy CMS Admin page) then when I went to publish instead of publish RW insisted on repuplishing all 447 files in the project. Iā€™m using RW 8.8.3 OS 10.14.6. Any ideas @isaiah / @bon / @joeworkman ? Many thanks!

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