Sorry about posting this here, but From the list of topic area's it didn't seem to fit anywhere.

Does anyone know of a program that can search your web directory and find any un-used files that may be in that directory?

I have tried Xenu4, but this will only return files that are being linked from a homepage. And with just 1 page I am receiving 8,000 links.

I have also heard that Homesite has a utility that can do something similar to this, but I am not able to use this utility since it is not installed on my Homesite (add-on).

I'm also told that dreamweaver may be able to do it, but it goes beyond the security level that i am able to access, so it would not work.

Front Page will do it. I imagine a lot of apps will? I don't tend to use this paradigm of coding, tho, so it's really hard to say. Sorry.

Don't have frontpage access either

I'm not sure if this applies to what you're asking, but w3 http://validator.w3.org/checklink has a broken link checker, maybe that can start you off?

Why don't you register your site with Google Webmaster Tools and see which pages return 404s and start doing 301 redirects to the appropriate pages?

Let me explain what i am trying to do a little better.

Say i have a directory with:

File 1, file 2, file 3, file 4

And my navigation looks like

link to file 1
link to file 2
link to file 3

now file 4 is never used. So i want to get rid of it. But i have no way of actually knowing that it was never used unless i search within each file within the directory and look for the filename.

I hope that makes it a little more clear

You must be really hard up for space, huh?

Dreamweaver will do this -- it has a "find orphans" function as part of it's site management tools.

Originally Posted by LadynRed

Dreamweaver will do this -- it has a "find orphans" function as part of it's site management tools.

I may be able to work with this feature. i know its not 100% accurate but it does give me a list of files that have no incoming links. Thanks!


Wayfare, not hard up for space just trying to get better results when we get audited