Operation Manual

Synchronizing files
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Synchronize the files on your local and remote sites
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.
Note: If your remote site is an FTP server (rather than a networked server), then synchronizing your files uses FTP.
Before you synchronize your sites, you can verify which files you want to put, get, delete, or ignore. Dreamweaver also confirms which files have
been updated after you complete the synchronization.
Check which files are newer on the local or remote site, without synchronizing
In the Files panel, do one of the following:
Click the Options menu in the upper-right corner, and then select Edit > Select Newer Local or Edit > Select Newer Remote.
In the Files panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh), and then select Select > Newer Local or Select > Newer
Remote.
Display detailed synchronization information for a particular file
In the Files panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the file you want information about, and then select Display Synchronize
information.
Note: You must have the Maintain Synchronization Information option selected in the Remote category of the Site Definition dialog box for this
feature to be available.
Synchronize your files
1. In the Files panel (Window > Files), select a site from the menu where the current site, server, or drive appears.
2. (Optional) Select specific files or folders or go to the next step to synchronize the entire site.
3. Click the Options menu in the upper-right corner of the Files panel and select Site > Synchronize.
You can also click the Synchronize button at the top of the Files panel to synchronize files.
4. In the Synchronize menu, do one of the following:
To synchronize the entire site, select Entire Site Name Site.
To synchronize selected files only, select Selected Local Files Only (or Selected Remote Files Only if the Remote view of
the Files panel was where you made the most recent selection).
5. Select the direction in which you want to copy the files:
Put Newer Files To Remote Uploads all the local files that don’t exist on the remote server or have changed since the last
upload.
Get Newer Files From Remote Downloads all the remote files that don’t exist locally or have changed since the last
download.
Get And Put Newer Files Places the most recent versions of all the files on both the local and the remote sites.
6. Select whether to delete the files on the destination site that don’t have counterparts on the origin site. (This is not available if
you select Get and Put from the Direction menu.)
If you select Put Newer Files to Remote and you select the Delete option, then any files in your remote site for which there are
no corresponding local files are deleted. If you select Get Newer Files from Remote, then any files in your local site for which
there are no corresponding remote files are deleted.
7. Click Preview.
Note: Before you can synchronize the files, you must preview the actions Dreamweaver performs to accomplish this task.
If the newest version of each chosen file is already in both locations and nothing needs to be deleted, an alert appears
informing you that no synchronization is necessary. Otherwise, the Synchronize dialog box appears to let you change the
actions (put, get, delete, and ignore) for those files before executing the synchronization.
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