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Microsoft FrontPage - TPL Files
Get Converted to HTML [an error occurred while processing this directive] Introduction: PHP Development Template or .tpl files that you are were able to edit directly within Microsoft FrontPage 200x versions suddenly convert documents into html and appear in a new page. The Issue in Detail: You have been editing .tpl files within FrontPage. Suddenly you see that whenever you attempt to open the same document, it displays a conversion window "Translating RTF to HTML" and then proceeds to display the document with modifications in a new page as seen below:
Why Does This Happen? If you are experiencing the said issue, the chances are that you have installed ActiveSync software. If you were to uninstall it, then everything returns to normal. When I saw this issue, I knew from the beginning that the issue would be with respect to the
converters. However, there was no way to disable it or identify
which converter is causing the problem. Although the KB article -
205684 is for FP2000, it seems to explain what is
happening here. To quote from the article - Solutions To Overcome The Problem: If you are working on only one file and that to for a short while, my recommendation would be to rename the extension as a .html file. This will enable FrontPage to display it the way it used to earlier and you should be able to edit it. Once you are finished with the editing, rename the extension back to its original form. However, if you work on such documents on a regular basis, then the above solution is not a convenient approach. In such scenarios, you will need to disable the ActiveSync converters. Disabling the converters is not possible via ActiveSync. You will need to identify and rename the converters so that it is not loaded. After several trial and error approach, I managed to locate the converters that seem to cause the issue described above. To disable them, do the following:
You need to note that if you keep File Conversion in ActiveSync enabled, some of the files will be using these converters. Therefore the renamed converters will no longer be available and the file will not be able to convert. It will copy the files without conversion. Most of the programs in your mobile device will be able to open up the native file format. To access File Conversion Settings in ActiveSync do the following:
Update for ActiveSync 4.x users: The newer versions of ActiveSync i.e. 4.x versions
seem to auto-repair the files that you rename as explained above.
Therefore renaming the file will not help solve the problem. In
such a scenario, you will need to disable the converters from the
registry itself. You will need to disable the path under the
following keys within the registry: At the moment I have noticed this behavior only with files having .tpl extension, if you find this article applicable to any other file extension, I would appreciate if you could inform me about it.
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