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To get files from a remote server:
1
Choose Window > Site Files to open the Site window.
2
At the top of the Site window, choose the desired site from the current sites
pop-up menu.
3
If you’re using FTP to transfer files, click Connect to open a connection to
the remote server.
If a connection is already open (indicated by the Disconnect button displayed),
skip this step. If the remote files are visible in the Remote pane from a previous
connection, clicking Connect isn’t required; when you click Get, Dreamweaver
connects automatically.
4
Select the desired files to download. (Usually you select these in the Remote
pane, but you may instead select the corresponding files in the Local pane
if you prefer.)
5
Click Get, or choose Get from the context menu or the Site menu. If the file is
currently open in a Document window, you can instead choose Site > Get from
the Document window.
6
To download dependent files, click Yes; to skip them, click No. (If you already
have local copies of the dependent files, click No.) To avoid being asked about
dependent files in future downloads, select the Don’t Ask Me Again option.
Note: To stop the file transfer at any time, click the Stop Current Task button (the red stop
sign with the white X in the lower right corner of the Site window) or press Esc (Windows)
or period (Macintosh). The transfer may not stop immediately.
Dreamweaver records all FTP file transfer activity. If an error occurs when you are
transferring a file using FTP, the Site FTP log can help you determine the
problem. To display the log, choose Window > Site FTP Log from the Site
window (Windows) or Site > Site FTP Log (Macintosh).
Putting files onto a remote server
Using the Put command copies files from the local site to the remote site,
generally without changing the file’s checked out status. There are two common
situations in which you use Put instead of Check In: when you’re not in a
collaborative environment and you aren’t using the Check In/Check Out system,
or when you want to put the current version of the file on the server but you’re
going to keep editing it.
Note: If you put a file that didn’t previously exist on the remote site and you’re using the
Check In/Check Out system, the file is copied to the remote site and is then checked out to
you for continued editing.
If you want to put a file on a remote server and check it in, use the Check In
command. See “Checking in and checking out files on a remote server” on page 133.