Locate an asset file in the files panel, Copy assets from the asset panel to another site, Creating and managing a list of favorite assets – Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 User Manual
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Note: The Files panel might show a different site from the one that the Assets panel shows. This is because the Assets panel
is associated with the active document.
Locate an asset file in the Files panel
1
In the Assets panel, select the category of the asset you want to find.
2
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the asset’s name or icon in the Assets panel, then select Locate
In Site from the context menu.
Note: Locate In Site is unavailable for colors and URLs, which do not correspond to files in the site.
The Files panel opens, with the asset file selected. The Locate In Site command locates the file corresponding to the
asset itself; it does not locate files that use that asset.
Copy assets from the Asset panel to another site
1
In the Assets panel, select the category of the asset you want to copy.
2
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) one or more assets in either the Site list or Favorites list, select
Copy To Site, and select the target site name from the submenu listing all the sites you’ve defined.
Note: In the Favorites list, you can copy a Favorites folder as well as individual assets.
The assets are copied to their corresponding locations in the target site. Dreamweaver creates new folders in the
target site’s hierarchy as needed. The assets are also added to the target site’s Favorites list.
Note: If the asset you copied is a color or a URL, it appears only in the target site’s Favorites list. Because colors and URLs
don’t correspond to files, there’s no file to copy into the other site.
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Creating and managing a list of favorite assets
Note: The user interface has been simplified in Dreamweaver CC and later. As a result, you may not find some of the
options described in this article in Dreamweaver CC and later. For more information, see
Managing favorite assets
The complete list of all recognized assets list can become cumbersome for some large sites. You can add frequently used
assets to a Favorites list, group related assets together, give them nicknames to remind yourself what they’re for, and
find them easily in the Assets panel.
Note: Favorite assets are not stored as separate files on your disk; they’re references to the assets in the Site list.
Dreamweaver keeps track of which assets from the Site list to display in the Favorites list.
Most of the operations of the Assets panel are the same in the Favorites list as in the Site list. However, there are several
tasks that you can perform only in the Favorites list.