Cloaking Folders and Files in Your Site
January 5th, 2010
Site cloaking allows you to exclude folders and file types in a site from operations such as Get or Put . You can cloak individual folders , but not individual files. To cloak files , you must select a file type , and Dreamweaver cloaks all files of that type . It remember your settings for each site, so you don’t have to make selections each time you work on that site .
For example , if you’re working on a large site and don’t want to upload your multimedia files each day, you can use site cloaking to cloak your multimedia folder, and the system excludes files in that folder from site operations your perform .
You can cloak folder and file types on the remote or local site . Cloaking excludes cloaked folders and
files from the following operations :
* Put, Get , Check In and Check Out
* Reports
* Select newer local and newer remote
* Sitewide operation , such as check and change links and search /replace .
* Synchronize
* Asset panel contents
* Template and Library updating
Dreamweaver excludes cloaking templates and library items from Get and Put operations only . It does not exclude these items from batch operations , because it might cause them to get out of sync with their instances . You can perform an operation on a specific cloaked folder by selecting the item in the ’site’ panel and performing an operation on it . Performing an operation on it . Performing an operation directly on a file or folder overrides cloaking .
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