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flare13
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June 6, 2023
Question

Suddenly my library items do not update my site?

  • June 6, 2023
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I went to edit a site I haven't updated in a few months. I use several library items for navigation and common page elements. I updated 2 library items today for sitewide updates, and noticed that I didn't get the usual log telling me it was updating the pages. I checked pages and sure enough it did NOT update them. I tried going to Tools > Library > Update site and that went through and made all kinds of changes to the code that made everything "local" to my hard drive (absolute links) rather than how the code should appear. I did make sure to select the correct site before I began work, making sure Manage Sites recognized the right site. I reverted everything. Shut down my computer. Rebooted. Again Managed Sites to make sure site was selected. Tried updating just 1 library item. Again it did NOT update the site?

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    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 7, 2023

    [Not a Dreamweaver Bug, moved to Discussions by moderator.]

     

    Dreamweaver can't readily communicate with content on DropBox, Google Drive, etc...  For best results while editing, move your site folder to your primary hard drive and define it -- Site > Manage Sites  >  C:\MySite\

     

    When you're done, you can copy your site folder to DropBox as a backup.

     

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    Naomi5E93
    Participant
    July 24, 2023

    I'm having the same issue, and my site is local and stored on my C drive.

    Sometimes I find that shutting down my computer and then restarting it causes Dreamweaver to correctly update changes to library items throughout the site. But sometimes it doesn't - it's inconsistent.

     

    Any suggestions would be helpful. This is pretty frustrating!

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    Naomi5E93
    Participant
    July 24, 2023

    Also, I saw @Nancy OShea 's answer to other similar questions, saying that library items do not work very well, especially on large sites.
    I have to say this is really disappointing. I've been an Adobe user since 1989 and have been using Dreamweaver since it was a Macromedia product! I specifically chose Dreamweaver for this development project so that I wouldn't have to deal with the complications of installing a server to use multiple PHP items. There are maybe about 50 pages on the site but it's not all that complex. The fact that a software product which is (or was, at one time, mainstream) and costs a lot of money to license is failing on a feature that is (or was, at one time) one of its main advantages . . .  is really disappointing. I'll have to reconfigure the entire site and will probably move it away from Dreamweaver - once burned....

    flare13
    flare13Author
    Participant
    June 7, 2023

    To clarify, this problem occurred in Dreamweaver. (I thought I was in a Dreamweaver section of the forum, that's why I didn't specify). In case it helps another, I have resolved the issue. It turns out it was a disconnect between my Dropbox and my Dreamweaver site. I went into Manage Sites and checked all the settings on the site. Not sure why, but the path was suddenly incorrect – pointing at (I guess) an outdated Dropbox path to the site. I re-established the paths for the site folder, image folder, etc. And now my library items correctly update the site.

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