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Hooded_Villian
12-15-2008, 10:36 AM
I have just started work on my latest project. Started a new Dreamweaver site, but when I move the files around the directory structure/files panel, the linking files like the style sheet/css or favicon etc do not auto update with the move. Instead it shows the entire file path. All my other sites do it work correctly...
I know its prolly a simple click to rectify, but can't find it right now.
Thanks in advance =)
Check to see if the cache (related to that particular site) has been created. If not, it won't update links.
Hooded_Villian
12-15-2008, 06:16 PM
Check to see if the cache (related to that particular site) has been created. If not, it won't update links.
The cache setting has been ticked... But is there anyway to check that it is actually creating it???
*Now my entire Dreamweaver and all the sites I been working on seems to have the same problem. O krud... Help!!!*
Hooded_Villian
12-15-2008, 06:59 PM
Hmmm... Well, it seems that, if I create a Site Root eg; WebsiteName. Then I create a few folders eg; Home, Layout, images etc. If I move an html doc from a folder to the Site Root and back again, then the trouble happens and I end up with links to files/filenames looking like this eg; <img src="file:///C|/Users/Documents/WebSites in Progress/layout/navRHS/bot.gif"> When in actual fact they are meant to look like this eg; <img src="../layout/navRHS/bot.gif">
Seriously... Wat's going on all of a sudden??? Was working perfectly up until last night...
It sounds like your sites are messed up. To troubleshoot, what you may want to do is to create a new one, and see if the new site encounters the same problems. Make sure your test site isn't in the same folder as the problem sites (in case there's some sort of weird inheritance problem.)
Also make sure that you've set the links to update upon move. I believe that, when the dialogue box pops up, you can actually set the default for all future files and if you accidentally chose "no," that could be part of the problem. I don't have DW on this machine to know for sure how to do it, but check your site settings as well as DW preferences.
IF none of these things helps, you may have some DW registry problems. I've had that happen before during one of those stupid audoupdates that seem to run at least every other week. You may want to either uninstall/reinstall OR try one of those registry cleaners (but do that with care).
Good Luck - KDLA
Hooded_Villian
01-25-2009, 10:54 AM
It sounds like your sites are messed up. To troubleshoot, what you may want to do is to create a new one, and see if the new site encounters the same problems. Make sure your test site isn't in the same folder as the problem sites (in case there's some sort of weird inheritance problem.)
Also make sure that you've set the links to update upon move. I believe that, when the dialogue box pops up, you can actually set the default for all future files and if you accidentally chose "no," that could be part of the problem. I don't have DW on this machine to know for sure how to do it, but check your site settings as well as DW preferences.
IF none of these things helps, you may have some DW registry problems. I've had that happen before during one of those stupid audoupdates that seem to run at least every other week. You may want to either uninstall/reinstall OR try one of those registry cleaners (but do that with care).
Good Luck - KDLA
Do u know what the problem was??? I accidentally got rid of a home page. Probably by deleting it or something. As soon as I set one of the HTML docs as the home page, everything sorted itself out. Simplest answers usually the correct they say :)
Thanks for ur help