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File management
Last updated 11/30/2015
Go offline
You might find it useful to avoid repository access during other file-transfer activities by going off-line. Dreamweaver
will reconnect to the SVN repository as soon as you invoke an activity that requires a connection (Get Latest Versions,
Commit, and so on).
1 Make sure that you’ve successfully set up an SVN connection.
2 Display the local version of your SVN files in the Files panel by selecting Local view from the View pop-up menu.
(If you are working in the expanded Files panel, the Local view is automatically displayed.)
3 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) any file or folder in the Files panel and select Version Control
> Go Offline.
Clean up a local SVN site
This command lets you remove locks on files so that you can resume unfinished operations. You should use this
command to remove old locks if you receive “working copy locked” errors.
1 Make sure that you’ve successfully set up an SVN connection.
2 Display the local version of your SVN files in the Files panel by selecting Local view from the View pop-up menu.
(If you are working in the expanded Files panel, the Local view is automatically displayed.)
3 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the file you want to clean up and select Version Control >
Clean Up.
About moving files and folders in Subversion-controlled sites
When you move the local versions of files or folders in a Subversion-controlled site, you run the risk of creating
problems for other users who might be synching to the SVN repository. For example, if you move a file locally, and
don't commit that file to the repository for a few hours, another user might try to get the latest version of the file from
the file’s old location. For this reason, you should always commit files back to the SVN server immediately after you've
moved them locally.
Files and folders remain on the SVN server until you've manually deleted them. So even if you move a file to a different
local folder and commit it, the old version of the file remains in the previous location on the server. To avoid confusion,
delete the old copies of files and folders that you've moved.
When you move a file locally and commit it back to the SVN server, the file’s version history is lost.
More Help topics
Getting and putting files toand from your server
Working with Dreamweaver sites
Using the Files panel
Synchronizing files
Synchronize the files on your local and remote sites
After you’ve created files in your local and remote sites, you can synchronize the files between the two sites.