Setting Synchronize Files dialog box options

The purpose of this dialog box is to set options for synchronizing files.

To set options for synchronizing files:

1. In the Synchronize pop-up menu, do one of the following:
   • To synchronize the entire site, select Entire Site Name Site.
   • To synchronize selected files only, select Selected Local Files Only (or Selected Remote Files Only if the Remote view of the Files panel was where you made the most recent selection).
2. Select the direction in which you want to copy the files:

   Put Newer Files to Remote uploads all the local files that don’t exist on the remote server or have changed since the last upload.

   Get Newer Files from Remote downloads all the remote files that don’t exist locally or have changed since the last download.

   Get and Put Newer Files places the most recent versions of all the files on both the local and the remote sites.

3. Select whether to delete the files on the destination site that don’t have counterparts on the origin site. (This is not available if you select Get and Put from the Direction pop-up menu.)

   If you select Put Newer Files to Remote and you select the Delete option, then Dreamweaver deletes any files in your remote site for which there are no corresponding local files. If you select Get Newer Files from Remote, then Dreamweaver deletes any files in your local site for which there are no corresponding remote files.

4. Click Preview.

   Before you can synchronize the files, you must preview the actions Dreamweaver will perform to accomplish this task.

   If the newest version of each chosen file is already in both places and nothing needs to be deleted, an alert appears informing you that no synchronization is necessary. Otherwise, the Synchronize dialog box appears. For more information, see Setting the Synchronize dialog box options.

Related topics

• Synchronizing the files on your local and remote sites