Dreamweaver - Re: workflow with DW8. Local - FTP, connecting to server, it's goofy

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Re: workflow with DW8. Local - FTP, connecting to server, it's goofy

Murray *TMM*

2006-02-24, 10:15 am

> I have check in/check out enabled

Are you the only one working on the site? If so, then there is no benefit
to using CI/CO, and there are real disadvantages as you have found.

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"synterx" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:dtm8pc$9n$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I am really, really wishing I never upgraded to DW8 and stuck to GoLive.
>Maybe
> some of you can help. I have a site. I have check in/check out enabled.
> Fine. I
> open the site, sync up to the FTP server first. Now I work off my local
> files
> (I have them in the left pane of the Site window...). Here's what I don't
> get.
> Every single time I want to do something, anything, DW has to connect to
> the
> server, I have to sit and wait while it does who knows what. I sit there,
> the
> little progress bar goes, slowly.
>
> Can't I just open, save, and work in real-time off my local files, then
> when
> I'm done for the session, upload my changes? Is that too much to ask?
> Let's say
> I save 4 new JPEGS into my assets folder in the finder (I'm a mac guy).
> Now I
> go to DW, and they aren't in the folder yet, so I hit the refresh button
> thing.
> Here goes the wait, go out to the server again. This has nothing to do
> with the
> server.
>
> another pain in the rear. I have a GIF. I open it in Photoshop, make a
> change,
> hit save, and I can't save over it, it's locked on my desktop local set of
> files. So I have to add a character to the name so i can at least save it
> in
> the right folder. Then go back and try to delete the file and oh my Lord
> this
> is a pain.
>
> Not to mention how slow DW is at FTPing my site. I mean slow. It's
> silly-slow.
> I have a very fast internet connection. I also do sites in GoLive CS2, and
> the
> FTP speed is normal.
>
> Are there some magical setting somewhere that need turned on to make this
> workflow go smoother? I don't get it?
>