Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER
Workspace
Last updated 3/28/2012
Dreamweaver prevents any user’s customized configuration from affecting any other user’s customized configuration.
To accomplish this goal, the first time you run Dreamweaver in one of the multiuser operating systems that it
recognizes, the application creates copies of a variety of configuration files. These user configuration files are stored in
a folder that belongs to you.
For example, in Windows XP, they’re stored in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application
Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver\en_US\Configuration, which is hidden by default. To show hidden files and folders, select
Tools
> Folder Options in Windows Explorer, click the View tab, and select the Show Hidden Files and Folders option.
In Windows Vista, they’re stored in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver
\en_US\Configuration, which is hidden by default. To show hidden files and folders, select Tools
> Folder Options in
Windows Explorer, click the View tab, and select the Show Hidden Files and Folders option.
In Mac OS X, they’re stored inside your Home folder; specifically, in Users/username/Library/Application
Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver/Configuration.
If you reinstall or upgrade Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver automatically makes backup copies of existing user
configuration files, so if you customized those files by hand, you still have access to the changes you made.
Set General preferences for Dreamweaver
1 Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh).
2 Set any of the following options:
Open Documents In Tabs Opens all documents in a single window with tabs that let you switch between documents
(Macintosh only).
Show Welcome Screen Displays the Dreamweaver Welcome screen when you start Dreamweaver or when you don’t
have any documents open.
Reopen Documents on Startup Opens any documents that were open when you closed Dreamweaver. If this option is
not selected, Dreamweaver displays the Welcome screen or a blank screen when you start (depending on your Show
Welcome Screen setting).
Warn When Opening Read-Only Files Alerts you when you open a read-only (locked) file. Choose to unlock/check out
the file, view the file, or cancel.
Enable Related Files Lets you see which files are connected to the current document (for example, CSS or JavaScript
files). Dreamweaver displays a button for each related file at the top of the document, and opens the file if you click the
button.
Discover Dynamically-Related Files Lets you select whether Dynamically-Related Files appear in the Related Files
toolbar automatically, or after manual interaction. You can also choose to disable the discovery of Dynamically-
Related Files.
Update Links When Moving Files Determines what happens when you move, rename, or delete a document within
your site. Set this preference to always update links automatically, never update links, or prompt you to perform an
update. (See
“Update links automatically” on page 264.)
Show Dialog When Inserting Objects Determines whether Dreamweaver prompts you to enter additional information
when inserting images, tables, Shockwave movies, and certain other objects by using the Insert panel or the Insert
menu. If this option is off, the dialog box does not appear and you must use the Property inspector to specify the source
file for images, the number of rows in a table, and so on. For roll over images and Fireworks HTML, a dialog box always
appears when you insert the object, regardless of this option setting. (To temporarily override this setting, Control-
click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) when creating and inserting objects.)