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Site management
Last updated 11/30/2015
2 Select one or more sites whose settings you want to export and click Export (CS5/CS5.5) or the Export button
(CS6 and later):
• To select more than one site, Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) each site.
• To select a range of sites, Shift-click the first and last site in the range.
3 If you want to back up your site settings for yourself, select the first option in the Exporting Site dialog box and click
OK. Dreamweaver saves remote server login information, such as the user name and password, as well as local path
information.
4 If you want to share your settings with other users, select the second option in the Exporting Site dialog box and
click OK. (Dreamweaver does not save information that would not work for other users, such as your remote server
login information and local paths.)
5 For each site whose settings you want to export, browse to a location where you want to save the site file and click
Save. (Dreamweaver saves each site’s settings as an XML file, with an .ste file extension.)
6 Click Done.
Note: Save the *.ste file to your site root folder or to your desktop to make it easy to find. If you cannot remember where
you put it, do a file search on your computer for files with the *.ste extension to locate it.
Import site settings
1 Select Site > Manage sites.
2 Click Import (CS5/CS5.5) or the Import Site button (CS6 and later).
3 Browse to and select one or more sites—defined in files with an .ste file extension—whose settings you want to
import.
To select more than one site, Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) each .ste file. To select a
range of sites, Shift-click the first and last file in the range.
4 Click Open and then click Done.
After Dreamweaver imports the site settings, the site names appear in the Manage Sites dialog box.
More Help topics
About Dreamweaver sites
Backing up and restoring site definitions
Edit an existing remote website
You can use Dreamweaver to copy an existing remote site (or any branch of a remote site) to your local disk and edit it
there, even if you didn’t use Dreamweaver to create the original site. You must have the correct connection information,
and connect to the site’s remote server, before you can edit the site.
1 Create a local folder to contain the existing site and set up the folder as the local folder for the site. (See Set up a local
version of your site .)
Note: You must locally duplicate the entire structure of the relevant branch of the existing remote site.
2 Set up a remote folder, using the remote access information about the existing site. You must connect to the remote
site to download the files to your computer before you can edit them. (See
Connect to a remote server .)