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December 29, 2016
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Background File Activity Window

  • December 29, 2016
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For some reason yesterday I started getting the background file activity pop up and it's annoying popping up even when I'm not working on a file but browsing the web. Not sure why it suddenly decided to annoy me but is there a way to disable the popup?
Alan

DW 2017 Mac OS 10.10.5

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    Correct answer pziecina

    Log says:

    Started: 1/19/17 10:05 AM

    File activity complete.

    Finished: 1/19/17 10:05 AM

    I found out what the background file activity is. It gives me a message saying it's accessing the folder DOCS. I clicked on the file tree icon on the top RHS of the DW page and I see that DW had saved a ton of my HTML files with the title XXXXX.v004.html. Seems as though DW for some reason is saving versions of my html files and I have no idea why it's doing that. Is there a way to turn that off as it's accessing that folder ever five minutes it seems? I certainly didn't ask it to and don't need it as I have TimeMachine to retrieve an old file if needed.
    Thanks
    Alan


    The additional files you are seeing, are from the file recovery feature.

    I thought these where automatically deleted when Dw was closed -

    https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/whats-new.html

    2 replies

    Nancy OShea
    Adobe Expert
    January 3, 2017

    Turn off all unnecessary processes.

    Pause File Syncing in your Creative Cloud Desktop app.

    Nancy

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
    Inspiring
    January 3, 2017

    File sync to the Cloud was turned off

    Alan

    Inspiring
    January 8, 2017

    Window > Results > FTP Log.

    Nancy


    Nancy

    FTP log is empty because I didn't hit SAVE I'll do it next time and see what the log says

    Thanks

    Alan

    Preran
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    January 3, 2017

    Are your files located on a local or a remote server?

    Thanks,

    Preran

    Inspiring
    January 3, 2017

    Preran

    All of my files are on my local hard drive. However all of them have been uploaded to a server (not mine) but DW is not linked to that site.

    Alan