oh my what a pain, thanks for sharing.

On Jun 2, 12:03 pm, Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> Realize this is an old post but I had exact same problem today using
> RedDot 7.5 and this is how I solved it.  Posting here b/c I could not
> find answers anywhere and this may help someone else who's "tearing
> their hair out" like I was :)
>
> My page 6331 was ignoring its publication package and overwriting our
> main corporate homepage at the Root level. NOT GOOD!
>
> ERROR message found in Publishing Log: “Page 6331 is not linked in
> HTML/ENU” (HTML/ENU is name of our Project Variant).
>
> Weirder still, this page 6331 was like a "ghost page" - if I did a
> Search for the page ID, I could get to it easily and see it connected
> as a page beneath an anchor reference, which was referenced to the
> same page.  But if I then expanded and contracted the anchor link, the
> page 6331 completely DISAPPEARED from the tree. Only way to see it
> again was to pull it up from the clipboard.
>
> Reasons were:
> 1)      The bad page 6331 had the SAME header name and the SAME
> filename as
> its twin, the “good homepage”
> 2)      The bad page was not actually linked anywhere in the project
> tree
> but kept showing up.
> 3)      We tried again and again to delete it from everywhere it was
> referenced.  But b/c it had same header & filename as a good page, we
> could not delete the reference that we NEEDED to get rid of.
> 4)      Finally, we renamed the headline of the "bad" page and gave it
> a
> different filename.  THEN we were able to delete it, no problem.
> 5)       When we did a search for Page ID 6331 then and did "Display
> reference in tree", we saw it was now in the Recycle Box, which is
> where it should have been from the start.
> 5)      We could now go to our "good" homepage and publish it.  No
> longer
> did our good or bad homepage overwrite our Root homepage.
>
> My advice:
> 1) Do a search in your project for any page where [headline=(your bad
> page headline here)] and check EACH of those pages that come up.  Esp
> do the
> "Display reference in tree" for each of them so you can see where they
> 'live'
> in your project.
>
> 2) Find out the filename you have set for this 'bad' page.  While on
> the Project node, select "Display all filenames" and scroll down to
> that filename.  This shows you all pages in tree that have THAT
> filename assigned and doubtless you have more than 1 such filename in
> there.
>
> One or both of the above will confuse RedDot - or at least this was
> the case for us.
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> Best,
> ~Kelly

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