User Guide

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ADOBE GOLIVE CS2
User Guide
See also
“To create a new movie” on page 526
“To create a new SMIL presentation” on page 487
“To create a Real Player presentation” on page 513
To add an existing file to a site
Do one of the following:
Drag the file from your desktop into the Files tab in the site window.
Move the file into the sites root folder on your desktop. Then select the site window and click the Refresh View
button in the toolbar.
Select theFiles tabinthe site window.ThenchooseFile > Import >Files To Site. In thedialogbox,locateand select
the desired file, and click Open. If prompted, click OK to copy the file and update the site.
Note: When you create a new page, GoLive automatically adds a meta element that defines the character encoding for
text to theheadsection of thepage. If apagedoesnot containthe element, GoLive displays adialogbox when youopen
the page so that you can temporarily use a default encoding or set the character encoding for the page.
See also
About GoLive sites” on page 145
Locking and unlocking files
You can use GoLive to unlock files that were locked in the Mac OS Finder or given a Read Only attribute in the
Windows Properties dialog box. If you import a site with locally locked files, you’ll need to unlock them before you
can edit them. If the files are hidden in Windows Explorer, you need to show them before you can edit them.
Localfilelocking appliesonlytothe platform whereitisapplied.For example, if youcreateasite in Mac OSand lock
its HTML files, the files will not be locked when you upload the site to a UNIX® or Windows server. Local file locking
does not apply to files on a WebDAV server.
To unlock a locked or read-only file
1 Double-click the file in the site window.
2 Make achange to thefile. When GoLive returnsthe message“Thefile[file name]isread-only. Wouldyou like to
make it writable?” click Yes.
To unlock multiple files, select them in the site window. Then, in Windows, choose Site > Explorer > Show Object
Information, and deselect Read-Only in the Properties dialog box. In Mac OS, choose Site > Finder > Show Object
Information, and deselect Locked in the Info dialog box.