I am trying to use Sharepoint Designer's backup and restore functionality to move a site from one server to another. The backup seems to complete successfully, but when I go to restore the site I get an error that looks like this:
Cannot find C:\Windows\Temp\.......\exportsettings.xml.
Does anyone know how to resolve this problem?
The instructions at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA100699391033.aspx also say you can do this through the web site itself, but the details about "quitting the browser" do not seem appropriate for WSS 3.0.
Error occurred while importing the web http://someweb/site.
Could not find file 'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\someguid\ExportSettings.xml
-dp
I am also having this problem. I have checked all user settings and site settings.
Stumped yes I am!
I am having the same problem as everyone else, although I have a bit more information. Some time after the original cmp is saved, and it says the backup is successful, another cmp file appears in the site where the backup was created. Both files are cab archives. Inside the file saved by SharePoint Designer is a series of .dat files starting with 001 and going to around 0AF. The cmp file inside the site starts somewhere after 200 and has the exportsettings.xml and other xml files at the end. If I extract both, then use cabarc to combine them again I get past that error (since I now have the xml files) but it of course at some point finds missing files, as I am missing some 200 dat files from the middle of the backup.
This appears to be a bug in the program, I have tried it in several different sites, and on different servers, and I always get the same results.