Some time ago I posted here that I was having trouble importing my site onto a new computer. I gave up on it for a while and just used a laptop for everything. I somehow managed to finally get it to start importing the site but I'm getting an error message that

"the URL .htaccess is invalid. It may refer to a nonexistant file or folder or refer to a current file or folder that is not in the current web."

Is there a way to remove the blue arrow before publishing remote to local so that Fontpage does not publish these files. This would also help with the larger files such as SMF forum. I don't need the forum published locally and would like to remove that file as well. If I right click the .htaccess file it says delete but I don't want to accidentally delete it from the website. Does anyone understand this problem and is there a way to work around it? Thanks

Still can't seem to open the site live. Maybe this is a Vista problem because when I select File Menu - Open Site I can't seem to figure out how to open a web address. It seems to only allow me to open existing files on the computer. After initially clicking Open Site, the window opens and displays items in the My Web Sites folder. When I try to type in the address in Site Name at the bottom it tells me that the folder isn't accessible. Is anyone familiar with FP2003 on Windows Vista system?

Still having problems.
When I go to the site through IE the file menu either gives me Open or Edit with Microsoft Office Frontpage. I tried both with no luck.
Using the "Open" option only seems to go to the website. Using "Edit with Microsoft Office Frontpage" does open and allow me to edit with FP but the option for Publish Site is grayed out and not accessible. It does allow me to Import but that is where I run into the problem of not being able choose Don't Publish (that option is also grayed out).
So the only thing I can think of is that maybe I'm not opening the site live correctly?

I gave up on this for a while again, but my laptop that I've been using to update the website is not long for this world so I'm forced to try again and resolve this issue.             

I gave up trying to figure out where I went wrong and decided to start over deleting what few files I had gotten onto the new computer.
After going over all of the previous replies everyone gave in trying to help me, particularly Rick's,  I did realize one thing...when I go to the website through IE and choose "Edit with Microsoft Office Frontpage," it is only opening that particular page not the entire site. That appears to be why I can't then choose "publish site" which is grayed out.
So, since I believe my problem (or at least one of the many) is that I'm not opening the site live correctly, can anyone walk me through this again so that "Edit with Microsoft Office Frontpage" opens the entire site and not just that particular page?

Keep in mind that for some reason under the IE file menu I can either choose "Open" or "Edit with Microsoft Office Frontpage"    ---- There is no "Open Site" option
Also - I'm using FTP (no FP extensions)
At this point if I must import the forum and .htaccess files then that's fine - I'll deal with it later.

Thanks once again

That explains why you can't open the site live or publish the site down to your computer. The FP extensions are required for these functions to work.