unable to delete service.lck or _vti_whatever

I cannot publish using FP2003 to my godaddy site "ResearchRiders". I know
that FP extensions are enabled and in place because I can publish another
project (BoincInfo) using Visual Studio 2008 and frontpage extensions at the
same location http://stateson.net/BoincInfo

There are two problems

(1) get the error message to the effect that "service.lck" cannot be
accessed and the site cannot be published at
http://stateson.net/ResearchRiders

OK I read various solutions here
http://www.scriptfx.com/frontpage/general/service.lck_errors.htm

they all deal with deleteing the file service.lck

There is a file in ...\mywebs\ResearchRiders\_vti_pvt named service.lck and
it has 0 length. I can delete it just fine. In fact I can delete the
entire _vti_whatevers and they all get re-created. Known that for a while.
However, deleting the service.lck has no effect on publishing to the godaddy
hosting. I still get the error message that something is wrong with
service.lck

(2) Cannot remove my failed attempts. I cannot get rid of any of the
_vti_whatever files on the godaddy hosting. Not just the service.lck, but
any of those hidden directories. I cannot even get rid of my supposidly
empty ResearchRiders directory. I am currently renaming my failed attempts
to rr1, rr2, etc because my ftp program (vista command prompt ftp.exe)
cannot seem to remove them. When I attempt to publish I get the error that
ResearchRiders is already there. I have to rename it as I cannot delete it.
There is probably a way to delete them since FP2003 created them in the
first place one would think. I could always ask the godaddy host support to
delete them for me but I like to fix my own problems.

thanks for looking

solved problem (2) - godaddy's host manage allowed me to set permissions and
to delete files and directories, but I still cannot publish thru FP2003
using FrontPage extensions as services.lck is still a problem. I can
publish using ftp. I wonder if web expression has this problem? How is it
I can publish using VS2008 using extensions, but FP2003 works only with ftp?

"Beemer Biker" <josephy.DeleteThis@stateson.net> wrote in message
news:C8CB6108-02EB-4AA1-B0B2-9D88469F80B1@microsoft.com...
>I cannot publish using FP2003 to my godaddy site "ResearchRiders". I know
>that FP extensions are enabled and in place because I can publish another
>project (BoincInfo) using Visual Studio 2008 and frontpage extensions at
>the same location http://stateson.net/BoincInfo
>
> There are two problems
>
> (1) get the error message to the effect that "service.lck" cannot be
> accessed and the site cannot be published at
> http://stateson.net/ResearchRiders
>
> OK I read various solutions here
> http://www.scriptfx.com/frontpage/general/service.lck_errors.htm
>
> they all deal with deleteing the file service.lck
>
> There is a file in ...\mywebs\ResearchRiders\_vti_pvt named service.lck
> and it has 0 length. I can delete it just fine. In fact I can delete the
> entire _vti_whatevers and they all get re-created. Known that for a while.
> However, deleting the service.lck has no effect on publishing to the
> godaddy hosting. I still get the error message that something is wrong
> with service.lck
>
> (2) Cannot remove my failed attempts. I cannot get rid of any of the
> _vti_whatever files on the godaddy hosting. Not just the service.lck, but
> any of those hidden directories. I cannot even get rid of my supposidly
> empty ResearchRiders directory. I am currently renaming my failed
> attempts to rr1, rr2, etc because my ftp program (vista command prompt
> ftp.exe) cannot seem to remove them. When I attempt to publish I get the
> error that ResearchRiders is already there. I have to rename it as I
> cannot delete it. There is probably a way to delete them since FP2003
> created them in the first place one would think. I could always ask the
> godaddy host support to delete them for me but I like to fix my own
> problems.
>
> thanks for looking
>