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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
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community 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
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      English100Author
      Inspiring
      January 3, 2017

      File sync to the Cloud was turned off

      Alan

      pziecina
      pziecina
      Legend
      January 24, 2017

      Yes I can do that, but the issue I have is that the window sometimes opens when I'm in another program and when I click on the CLOSE icon it takes me back to DW. It's very annoying and they shouldn't let it appear unless I'm in DW.

      Alan


      I use the uploading files as a reason to take a coffee break, but yes, I agree that should also not happen.

      All I can suggest is that you file a feature request for the behaviour to be changed. Before you say it, I know that asking users to do that is becoming the 'standard' reply, but as far as I know there is no other way to let the dev team know what users want.

      Preran
      Community Manager
      PreranCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      January 3, 2017

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

      Thanks,

      Preran

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      English100Author
      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

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