Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 - Manual (Page 133)

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File management
Last updated 6/3/2015
You can cloak files and folders on the remote or local site. Cloaking excludes cloaked files and folders from the following
operations:
• Performing Put, Get, Check In, and Check Out operations
• Generating reports
• Finding newer local and newer remote files
• Performing sitewide operations, such as checking and changing links
• Synchronizing
• Working with Asset panel contents
• Updating templates and libraries
Note: You can still perform an operation on a specific cloaked folder or file by selecting the item in the Files panel and
performing an operation on it. Performing an operation directly on a file or folder overrides cloaking.
Note: Dreamweaver excludes cloaked templates and library items from Get and Put operations only. Dreamweaver does
not exclude these items from batch operations, because it might cause them to become out of sync with their instances.
Enable and disable site cloaking
Site cloaking enables you to exclude folders, files, and file types in a site from sitewide operations such as Get or Put,
and is enabled by default. You can disable cloaking permanently or just temporarily to perform an operation on all files,
including cloaked files. When you disable site cloaking, all cloaked files are uncloaked. When you enable site cloaking
again, any previously cloaked files become cloaked again.
Note: You can also use the Uncloak All option to uncloak all files, but this does not disable cloaking; also there is no way to
re-cloak all files and folders that were previously cloaked, except to set cloaking again for each folder, file, and file type.
1 In the Files panel (Window > Files) select a file or folder.
2 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh), and do one of the following:
• Select Cloaking > (deselect to disable).
• Select Cloaking > Settings to open the Cloaking category of the Site Setup dialog box. Select or deselect , and
select or deselect Cloak Files Ending With to enable or disable cloaking for specific file types. You can enter or
delete file suffixes in the text box that you want to cloak or uncloak.
Cloak and uncloak site files and folders
You can cloak specific files and folders, but you cannot cloak all files and folders or cloak an entire site. When you cloak
specific files and folders, you can cloak multiple files and folders at the same time.
1 In the Files panel (Window > Files), select a site that has site cloaking enabled.
2 Select the folder(s) or file(s) you want to cloak or uncloak.
3 Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh), then select Cloaking > Cloak or Cloaking > Uncloak from the
context menu.
A red line through the file or folder icon appears or disappears, indicating that the folder is cloaked or uncloaked.
Note: You can still perform an operation on a specific cloaked file or folder by selecting the item in the Files panel and
performing an operation on it. Performing an operation directly on a file or folder overrides cloaking.