Background File Activity Window

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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

Nancy OShea

Braniac

Turn off all unnecessary processes.

Pause File Syncing in your Creative Cloud Desktop app.

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

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English100Author

Inspiring

File sync to the Cloud was turned off

Alan

pziecina

Braniac

Okay I filed a bug report but have not heard back. It's really annoying as it saves the files, but I can't do any work while it's doing that. It only takes 5 or 6 seconds, but keeps doing it every so ofter. Adobe should have given us the option to turn that feature off.

Alan

English100 wrote
Okay I filed a bug report but have not heard back.

You are experiencing the thing I find most annoying with Adobe -

"The complete lack of feedback from most of them".

The Adobe staff that monitor these forums, and the rare one or two others in the pre-release, are exceptions, and do try to provide us with feedback, when they can, but in general no one says anything about product complaints, bugs or even ideas.

I hear people complaining about Microsoft, but over the last year, they have contacted me a number of times to discuss ideas, and complaints about Visual Studio and Edge features. So far it is Microsoft 6, Adobe 0.