Synchronize your files – Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 User Manual
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File management
Last updated 6/3/2015
Synchronize your files
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In the Files panel (Window > Files), select a site from the menu where the current site, server, or drive appears.
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(Optional) Select specific files or folders or go to the next step to synchronize the entire site.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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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Verify the action that will be performed for each file.
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To change the action for a particular file, select the file, and then click one of the action icons at the bottom of the
preview window.
Compare
The Compare action works only if you installed and specified a file comparison tool in Dreamweaver. If
the action icon is grayed out, the action cannot be performed.
Mark Selected Files As Already Synched
This option lets you specify that the selected file or files are already
synchronized.
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Click OK to synchronize the files. You can view or save the details of the synchronization to a local file.
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