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Move a
Dreamweaver Site
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reamweaver stores information in internal files for
each Dreamweaver site, such as the site name,
the path to the root directory, the URL to the
Web site, information needed to connect to the Remote site,
and so on. In some cases, you might need to set up the
same Dreamweaver site on a different computer. Perhaps
you need to change your development environment to a
different computer; or, if you need to work on the Web site
in cooperation with other developers, your co-developers
will need to establish the same Dreamweaver environment
to coordinate your work. Rather than setting up a new
Dreamweaver site on a new computer, with the extra work
and potential errors, you can move the existing Dreamweaver
site to another computer.
Moving a Dreamweaver site requires three steps: Exporting
the current site, moving the file containing the site
information to the new computer, and importing the site
file into Dreamweaver on the new computer. When you
export the current site, the site information is stored in a file
called sitename.ste. The exported file contains the
information in XML format in a text file that you can
examine in a text editor. You move the exported file to the
new computer and import it into Dreamweaver.
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Export the existing site
1 Open the Manage Sites dialog box.
Note: See the section “Create a Dreamweaver Site”
to open the Manage Sites dialog box.
2 Click the site name.
3 Click Export.
The Exporting dialog box appears.
4 Check an option if the default is not correct
( changes to ).
5 Click OK.
The export site navigation dialog box opens.
6 Click here and navigate to the folder where
you want to store the exported site.
7 Click Save.
Dreamweaver saves the file with an .ste
extension in the selected folder.
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