MS Publisher 2003 not updating web files

I have made changes to my web site using Publisher 2003 (in which it was created), but when I hit "Publish to the web" neither the folder "index_files" nor the file "index.htm" update. The "Last modified" date stays at 2014, when the other files show today's date. When I upload using FileZilla, the web site remains the 2014 version. The site was created in 2012, and I have made other changes previously with the same software and same computer. What am I missing this time?

Welcome to the forum. If your uploading via FTP it's not a publisher problem. When you upload it should ask do you want to overwrite. Go the other way and download the file and see if it's the new file. One thing to check is the upload if your site is set to start index.htm and you don't set it right in Windows it may upload Index.htm Linux is case sensitive so it won't see the file or use it a common fault

Thanks for the reply! The reason that I thought it was Publisher is that the "index_file" folder and the "index.htm" file are in the folder where the web site files are located, before ever going to FileZilla. Shouldn't they have today's date in their properties if I "published to the web" today?

The index.htm is lower case, and I do check the overwrite box.

Thanks!

Does it run correct locally and did filzillia ask about overwriting?

I'm not sure what you mean by "run correct locally."

When I start the file transfer in FileZilla, a dialogue box opens, and "Overwrite" is checked by default; which I leave that way.

If by "run correct locally" you mean does it all work when I click "Preview your web site...", yes it does. All of my changes are there, and all of the internal links work.

Attached is a screen shot from FileZilla. Notice that the files named "... 7-16-17.pub" have last-modified dates of 7/16/2017. The "index_file" folder and the "index.htm" file have the date 8/4/14, which is the last date I changed the web site. Shouldn't these files be updating when I hit "Publish to the web?" The still match the last date that I published to the web.

More clues.

I rebooted the computer on the off chance the latest FileZilla update hadn't "taken," but there was no change.

Next, I created and "Archive" folder, and moved all of the web site files there, except the .pub file. At that point, it should have looked to Publisher like a brand new web site, with nothing to overwrite. When I ran "Publish to the web," it created a folder named "ftp.filezilla.com.files" and a file named "ftp.filezilla.com.htm," but no "index.htm" file. Transferring the new files through FileZilla did not update the website.

Thanks for continuing to think about this for me!

Will changing to Expression require me to recreate my web site, or will it recognize and accept the Publisher files?

Thanks!