How do I import pages and folders into a site? Dreamweaver must be able to
account for all additions and changes, so that it can update as appropriate.
We know it is not a good idea to move stuff into a site via the Finder (on the
Mac, for instance). But when I search LiveDocs, and this forum, I find no
pointers for bringing whole pages and folders into an existing site.

My thanks in advance, David Allen

Copy/paste within your site's root folder. They will be there when you go
to the site in DW.

HOWEVER, if a page you are copying requires files external to the page,
those files must be copied in as well. And, they must be in the same folder
names that they were in prior to the copy.

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"david_allen_mac" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> How do I import pages and folders into a site? Dreamweaver must be able
> to
> account for all additions and changes, so that it can update as
> appropriate.
> We know it is not a good idea to move stuff into a site via the Finder (on
> the
> Mac, for instance). But when I search LiveDocs, and this forum, I find no
> pointers for bringing whole pages and folders into an existing site.
>
> My thanks in advance, David Allen
>

Assuming, of course, that you have downloaded all the files from your host site
to a few folder on your local HD, you create a new site, pointing the specifics
to where your site is localed on your HD. Press <<return>>.

Murray, If I may check:

You mean to copy the whole file - as in: from Finder, Cmd C when the file is
selected? I think then you are explaining that when I access the contextual
menu in the site, in the Files tab / Files panel, Paste will be available and
the page will then appear in the list, and of course also in the appropriate
site folder on the HD. Of course, pasting into appropriate folders, if
required, is also of the essence.

Much thanks for the help, David

DW has no "import" function. Any HTML file placed into the local site will
be visible and editable in DW. Does that help?

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"david_allen_mac" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Murray, If I may check:
>
> You mean to copy the whole file - as in: from Finder, Cmd C when the file
> is
> selected? I think then you are explaining that when I access the
> contextual
> menu in the site, in the Files tab / Files panel, Paste will be available
> and
> the page will then appear in the list, and of course also in the
> appropriate
> site folder on the HD. Of course, pasting into appropriate folders, if
> required, is also of the essence.
>
> Much thanks for the help, David
>

Yes thanks, I think that is definitive. So: It is workable to use Finder
directly in this case. In Finder, simply copy the new files into the site
folder, with all the other site files. As you say, DW will then show them in
the Files tab, when we look there.

David

step one-
Define a Site in dreamweaver.
See the help docs.

If these files already exist in their own folder on your hard drive, then
use THAT folder as this Site's Local Site Folder.


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Thanks, Alan. For better or worse, I have got a little beyond those steps. I
already have a site (actually several). But I need to put inside an extant
site what amount to an old site created previously (pics of a friend's car for
sale, actually). So the prob is to move files en masse into an already
operating site.

Hopefully, I now know how to do that, via Finder (or, let's record also, on
Windows, via Windows Explorer) - just tried it and it works nicely, thanks!.
And hopefully, so does the next person who comes along to search on this
subject. Including, to find yours for a new site.

Again, my thanks to all for the full and immediate help. David

> But I need to put inside an extant
> site what amount to an old site created previously (pics of a friend's car for
> sale, actually). So the prob is to move files en masse into an already
> operating site.

okay.
so there is a defined site.
It has a Local Site Folder.

In the mac finder or windows Explorer, copy these new files where ever they
are, and paste them INTO this site's Local Site Folder.

or drag and drop them.

--> or any way you know how to do to move these files into that folder <---

Only files that are IN the local site folder will show in this site's Files
Panel

another way to do it (but clumsy because it's one file at a time) is there
is a way to browse the computer from the files panel.

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Thanks.