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File management
Last updated 11/30/2015
Dreamweaver starts the comparison tool, which compares the local and remote versions of each file you selected.
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Synchronizing files
Cloaking files and folders in your Dreamweaver site
About site cloaking
Site cloaking enables you to exclude files and folders from operations such as Get or Put. You can also cloak all files of
a particular type (JPEG, FLV, XML, and so on) from site operations. Dreamweaver remembers your settings for each
site so that you don’t have to make selections each time you work on that site.
For example, if you’re working on a large site and you don’t want to upload your multimedia files each day, you can use
site cloaking to cloak your multimedia folder. Dreamweaver will then exclude files in that folder from site operations
you perform.
You can cloak files and folders on the remote or local site. Cloaking excludes cloaked files and folders from the following
operations:
• Performing Put, Get, Check In, and Check Out operations
• Generating reports
• Finding newer local and newer remote files
• Performing sitewide operations, such as checking and changing links
• Synchronizing
• Working with Asset panel contents
• Updating templates and libraries
Note: You can still perform an operation on a specific cloaked folder or file by selecting the item in the Files panel and
performing an operation on it. Performing an operation directly on a file or folder overrides cloaking.
Note: Dreamweaver excludes cloaked templates and library items from Get and Put operations only. Dreamweaver does
not exclude these items from batch operations, because it might cause them to become out of sync with their instances.
Enable and disable site cloaking
Site cloaking enables you to exclude folders, files, and file types in a site from sitewide operations such as Get or Put,
and is enabled by default. You can disable cloaking permanently or just temporarily to perform an operation on all files,
including cloaked files. When you disable site cloaking, all cloaked files are uncloaked. When you enable site cloaking
again, any previously cloaked files become cloaked again.
Note: You can also use the Uncloak All option to uncloak all files, but this does not disable cloaking; also there is no way to
re-cloak all files and folders that were previously cloaked, except to set cloaking again for each folder, file, and file type.
1 In the Files panel (Window > Files) select a file or folder.
2 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh), and do one of the following:
• Select Cloaking > (deselect to disable).