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Inspiring
May 18, 2022
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Cloak has stopped working

  • May 18, 2022
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Until about a week ago cloaking was working correctly, but now it is not. I can still cloak files and folders, and they are marked as "cloaked" in the files window. However if I do a find and replace it still searches through all the cloaked files. I have tried resetting preferences but it made no difference. Folders like node modules need to be cloaked or the find and replace takes ages.

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Correct answer julianc31943986

yes, as Tesla used to say... that's the way it is

(just for fun...let's get back 33 years back... 🙂 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFgOSoKeGGQ


So the correct answer seems to be: Find and replace will sometimes respect cloaking and sometimes not with no clear pattern to help us understand why. However, in the documentation, Adobe do not claim that cloaking effects find and replace.

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 18, 2022

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/dreamweaver/using/cloaking-files-folders-dreamweaver-site.html

 

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

 

Find & Replace is not mentioned.

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Inspiring
May 19, 2022

Thanks, 

 

Yes I saw that too.  Strange though, I could have sworn it was speeding up my find/replace before. It is a pain when find/replace ploughs through folders it does not need to (like node modules).

B i r n o u
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May 19, 2022
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It is a pain when find/replace ploughs through folders it does not need to (like node modules).

By @julianc31943986

 

as a workaround, you could try to cloak the vendors, or node modules, (entire folder, not singles files)  then apply a search on the entire website.

 

but I agree that sometimes either this doesn't work... and depending on web sites, nothing help...