Understanding messages when uploading files
Several common messages can appear when working in Dreamweaver. This Information will help you understand how to respond to them.
Dependent or non-dependent files
This message asks if you want to upload dependent files.
Generally click 'no' but if you do click 'yes' the time it takes to upload your file will be slightly longer. You won't cause any harm if you do click 'yes'.
What are dependent files?
These include banner images, other images, navigation etc.
Synchronization Information
This message asks if you want to overwrite changes to a file on the web-server (live).
Generally click 'yes'. As long as you are confident that the files you are 'putting' are the most current and correct.
Synchronization Information refers to 'details' that Dreamweaver stores on a particular file.
Dreamweaver compares users, or different versions of dreamweaver (ie if someone has CS3 and another person in the office has CS5) and if someone else has up-loaded the same file, it may display this message. This message if often displayed when 'putting' folders or whole sites (containing a variety of files within).
Access denied message
Access to \\canterbury.ac.nz\staff\UCWebDevelopment\........\dwsync.xml was denied.
To solve this problem you need to check and change some Dreamweaver settings.
- From the top menu in Dreamweaver select Site - Manage Sites
- From the dialouge box select your site from the left-hand side, and click 'Edit' on the right
- A new dialouge box opens. Make sure the 'advanced' tab is selected at the top
- Under the 'Category' list on the left select 'Design Notes'
- With 'Design Notes' selected do the following 3 steps
- Deselect 'Maintain design notes'
- Click the 'clean up...' button (this may taking a while depending on the size of your site)
- Click 'Ok'
- Click 'Done'