Deafult.aspx is not opening in the SharePoint Designer

PROBLEM: Deafult.aspx is not opening in the SharePoint Designer

Error Details   

     Soap: Server was unable to process request. A Web Part or Web Form Control on this Web Part Page cannot be displayed or imported because it is not registered as safe on this site. You may not be able to open this page in an HTML editor that is compatible with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer. To fix this page, contact the site administrator to have the Web Part or Web Form Control configured as safe. You can also remove the Web Part or Web Form Control from the page by using the Web Parts Maintenance Page. If you have the necessary permissions, you can use this page to disable Web Parts temporarily or remove personal settings. For more information, contact your site administrator.

Solution       

The problem is that the default.aspx page may contain some error web parts which can be removed by hitting the following url

http://sitename/default.aspx?contents=1

This will open the web part maintenance page. So, here you can delete the error web part.

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What is 12 and 60 Hive in SharePoint ?

You'll hear SharePoint people talk about and refer to the "12 Hive" or the "60 Hive" regularly. We don't know what it is and we use it .

The "Hive" concept was coined by Todd Bleeker. So what does it mean?

12 Hive is the location where MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 install their files on the file system. 
The same thing applies to 60 Hive which, as you may guess is the location of SPS 2003 and WSS 2.0 files. 

Locations:

12 Hive C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12
60 Hive C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\60

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