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Infracraft
Infracraft
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Apr 18, 2018 5:17 AM UTC
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Delete Remote Files not on Local Drive

When I try to syncronize files with my remote and testing servers Dreamweaver asks if I want to delete files not on the local instance.

However when I check this and then press preview rather than marking the files as delete it marks them as get.

Is there a way to fix this?

thanks.

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    BenPleysier
    BenPleysierCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    Apr 19, 2018 3:14 AM UTC

    I'm not sure how you managed to achieve this but this is exactly the functionality I want.

    I spent over an hour on the online chat with Adobe this morning and the person I was speaking to remoted in and watched my transfers and witnessed the issue.

    This was under Case No: ADB-1824795-P0H8

    I was eventually told that this was not a bug and that this functionality was expected in versions of dreamweaver CC she suggested rolling back to CS6 which I did still with no luck.

    I have no idea what is going on but this functionality is extremely important for our web development work.

    Sorry I posted the above from the wrong account.


    I tried both versions 'Entire Site' and 'Selected Folders' and both worked identically.

    My Dreamweaver is 10155 Build ver 18.1 on a Windows system.

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    Infracraft
    InfracraftAuthor
    Participant
    Apr 19, 2018 9:38 PM UTC

    The Reason this wasn't working is because we had marked the transaction as get and put newer files.

    As a result the site was trying to Get the file from the server.

    Using just a put newer files operation results in the expected behavior.

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    B i r n o u
    B i r n o u
    Legend
    Apr 18, 2018 5:54 AM UTC

    can you please describe step by step what is happening... I never encounter any trouble with this feature ?

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    Infracraft
    InfracraftAuthor
    Participant
    Apr 18, 2018 8:55 PM UTC

    Step 1 - Create new Site

    Step 2 - use get function to pull all files from Server to Local

    Step 3 - Delete Index.php (Or Any other File on Local)

    Step 4 - Use Sync (Check Delete files on remote, not on local)

    Step 5 - Press Preview

    Index.php is now marked as get... Not as delete.

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    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    Apr 18, 2018 10:32 PM UTC

    The whole purpose of file synchronization is so you have the same files locally and on remote. 

    I frequently have local files that are not on the remote server and vice versa.  That's how I want it.  So I NEVER use file sync. 

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