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Site management
Last updated 11/30/2015
Make sure to choose the correct root folder for the remote site.
3 In the Files panel (Window > Files), click the Connects To Remote Host button (for FTP access) or the Refresh
button (for network access) in the toolbar to view the remote site.
4 Edit the site:
If you want to work with the entire site, select the root folder of the remote site in the Files panel, and click Get
File(s) in the toolbar to download the entire site to your local disk.
If you want to work with just one of the files or folders of the site, locate the file or folder in the Remote view of
the Files panel, and click Get File(s) in the toolbar to download that file to your local disk.
Dreamweaver automatically duplicates as much of the remote sites structure as is necessary to place the downloaded
file in the correct part of the site hierarchy. When editing only one part of a site, you should generally include dependent
files, such as image files.
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Set site preferences for transferring files
You select preferences to control file transfer features that appear in the Files panel.
1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh).
2 In the Preferences dialog box, select Site from the category list on the left.
3 Set the options and click OK.
Always Show Specifies which site (remote or local) is always shown, and in which Files panel pane (left or right) the
local and remote files appear.
By default, the local site always appears on the right. Whichever pane is not chosen (the left one by default) is the
changeable pane: this pane can display the files in the other site (the remote site by default).
Dependent Files Displays a prompt for transferring dependent files (such as images, external style sheets, and other
files referenced in the HTML file) that the browser loads when it loads the HTML file. By default, both Prompt on
Get/Check Out and Prompt on Put/Check In are selected.
Its usually a good idea to download dependent files when checking out a new file, but if the latest versions of the
dependent files are already on the local disk, theres no need to download them again. This is also true for uploading
and checking in files: no need if up-to-date copies are already at the destination.
If you deselect these options, your dependent files are not transferred. Therefore, to force the Dependent Files dialog
box to appear even when these options are deselected, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Macintosh) while
choosing the Get, Put, Check In, or Check Out commands.
FTP Connection Determines whether the connection to the remote site is terminated after the specified number of
minutes have passed with no activity.
FTP Time Out Specifies the number of seconds in which Dreamweaver attempts to make a connection with the
remote server.