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May 18, 2022
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Cloak has stopped working

  • May 18, 2022
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Until about a week ago cloaking was working correctly, but now it is not. I can still cloak files and folders, and they are marked as "cloaked" in the files window. However if I do a find and replace it still searches through all the cloaked files. I have tried resetting preferences but it made no difference. Folders like node modules need to be cloaked or the find and replace takes ages.

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Correct answer julianc31943986

yes, as Tesla used to say... that's the way it is

(just for fun...let's get back 33 years back... 🙂 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFgOSoKeGGQ


So the correct answer seems to be: Find and replace will sometimes respect cloaking and sometimes not with no clear pattern to help us understand why. However, in the documentation, Adobe do not claim that cloaking effects find and replace.

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Nancy OShea
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Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
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May 18, 2022

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/dreamweaver/using/cloaking-files-folders-dreamweaver-site.html

 

You can cloak files and folders on the remote or local site. Cloaking excludes cloaked files and folders from the following operations:

  • Performing Put, Get, Check In, and Check Out operations

  • Generating reports

  • Finding newer local and newer remote files

  • Performing sitewide operations, such as checking and changing links

  • Synchronizing

  • Working with Asset panel contents

  • Updating templates and libraries

 

Find & Replace is not mentioned.

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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B i r n o u
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May 19, 2022
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Find & Replace is not mentioned.

By @Nancy OShea

 

mentioned or not, since I use DW (and since cloaking appeared)... searches are not done on cloaked files and folders


as @julianc31943986  I have often noticed since CC15 (I think), a strong instability of this feature, which sometimes even disappears on some sites... I posted, at the time when one could still post bugs, multiple remarks to... but they was always checked as FOL (Fact of life)... or non-reproducible

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May 20, 2022

in fact S & R doesn't respect the cloaked folders when, searching in selected files.... it only works when searching in the entire site.

 

sometimes what I do is I cloak the entire web site, and only uncloak the folders in which I work... which are generally always the same, and few of them... the best exemaple are plugins, or child templates in WP... so that way S & R in the entire cloaked web site doesn't takes much... but it's so pity to have to use such a workaround, when S & R in selected files taking cloaking into account would be such a red carpet

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