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Saturday, August 8th, 2026

Restoring from Archive

For years, I have been dutifully creating, downloading, and saving an archive copy of my website files. I can see that all the elements and .xpf page files are there in the archive, but I've never needed to use any of them for recovery. I just felt safe in the knowledge that I could if I had some mishap. Well, I had a mishap and overwrote a complete page with a new page I was creating.

My normal procedure is to call up an existing page, SAVE AS a new name, and start the new version. OOPS! For some reason, this time I skipped the copying part and changed the original page, saved it, and published it with other content. When I discovered the goof, I thought to myself, NO PROBLEM! I've got an archive to draw from.

WELL... sure enough, I found the original .xpf of the page that I wanted (along with an .html file of the same name), but when I try to import it via the file manager, it tells me that the file type is not accepted. QUESTION: How can I use my archive to retrieve my overwritten page? Thanks for any help. 

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I guess I found the answer right here... 😥 Who knew?! 


"If you have a need to restore some files, you may extract the archive onto your computer and use Sitebuilder Plus' file manager to upload the files. Once uploaded you will need to publish as usual to make the files live. At the time, pages can not be restored. Only images, and other miscellaneous files."