Dreaweaver showing backup files I cannot delete

[durban1960]

I have unistalled all Adobe Products and plists and everything on my Mac.  I still get all these backup files hogging up my manage Files Library. Please help.

 

[BenPleysier]

Are the files set as `read-only`?

[durban1960]

Thqnk you for your response. I have no idea where these files are. I thought thwy were in my Time Machine files. Its a mystery. Dreamweaver works fine I just cannot get rid of all thes efiles.

[durban1960]

Ahh I found them on my Time Machine. Strange, Dreamweaver never hogged up everything by showing all these files before. Do you knwo how I can clean up this window and only show relevant files?

 

[BenPleysier]

I do not know the workings of the Mac OS, sorry.

[Jon Fritz · Accepted solution]

You need to define a site in DW to work within the program effectively. Rright now, you're showing the contents of your entire Computer.

https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/how-to/define-a-dreamweaver-site.html

[durban1960]

Thank you so much! Yes this worked perfectly.

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[Nancy OShea]

Go to Site > New Site and define your local site folder.  Example, [volume]\MySiteFolder\  where [volume] is your primary hard drive.

[minedice]

Thank you so much as mentioned it worked with the above purse when I created a site or at least to find one how do I close this conversation?

[BenPleysier]

You do not close a conversatiom that you did not originate.

[dw202]

The answer marked as the solution actually does not solve this problem. My Dreamweaver shows all drives, including the time machine backups, even with sites being defined. It is very annoying. There should be a way of excluding drives from the files location in Dreamweaver.

[Nancy OShea]

This isn't a Dreamweaver issue, it's a Mac/Time Machine issue.

https://cleanmymac.com/blog/delete-time-machine-backups

[dw202]

Thanks for trying, but you are wrong, for following reasons:

- This has not always been a problem, but appeared at certain point, and never went away. It is dreamweaver. Other apps do not show backups, but volumes/drives only. Dreamveawer even shows volumes like Preboot, VM, and Updates which are otherwise no-show, even in Mac's Drive utility.

- Backups are there for the purpose of backup, not to be deleted. It is a non-sense.

- Apple recommends "never delete TM files manually as it will mess up the TM backups and files will get stuck in your trash."

The link you provided is about if one struggles with space or whatever.

Thanks

[Nancy OShea]

Let me put this another way. 

1. Apart form a few security patches & compatibility updates described below, Dreamweaver has had no new features added since it moved to minimal maintenance status in late 2020 (ver 21).
   https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/whats-new/2022-1.html
2. The problems you describe (see link below) are unique to Macs with AFPS file management.  Windows users have no problem. 
   https://macpaw.com/how-to/remove-other-volumes-in-container

Hope that helps.