Dreamweaver CS5 - no live edit?

My previous version of DW I would edit all the files directly on the server. I don't want to deal with all this download local, edit, and then upload. How can you edit live in DW CS5? I don't see the option anywhere. I have the connection setup fine, see all my server files, when I open a file it brings it local though. Thanks.

 

yes, that's what it does. the problem is I have always edited remotely, I don't have any of the files locally. so now when it brings back just one file that links to some images that are only on the server then it errors/won't let me save to remote server because part of the changes are a file on the server and not local.

so before I just edited remotely, there were no files brought back local. what it wants me to do now is download ALL files locally and then uploads would work.

 

I was an I.T. guy too you know, then we both went on to better things. These aren't "live" files, although I can view them live in my test environment, I extract the HTML to put into my PHP which are live when ready.

 

well, I don't know this for sure yet, I'm just asking if anyone knows how to live edit with CS5? most of if it looks the same.

 

I guess you didn't read the rest of my posts carefully.

I had already been through Advanced Site settings a few times, but just confirmed again Remote Info isn't an option anymore, just Local Info. There are some Live view and code options I'm going to look at closer, but I think they are read only.

 

OK, I can deal with it now.

I learned early on in my IT career it is easier to do things like the package wants you to do it verse the way you want to do it.

Only stuff like the Sponsors page and Newsletter do I need to update in HTML, none of the HTML pages for those are live anyway because I extract the HTML into the PHP files which are live adding the standard FChat header & footer. Instead of bringing back an entire copy of FerrariChat local, I simply just did a get on files and images that make up the Sponsors page and Newsletter. So from here on out I won't be doing live edits on those, just get and puts like it wants you to do.

Thanks for the leads.

 

I'm starting to get more comfortable with the local edit, but I've screwed myself a few times not putting my updated local copy back on the server and then next time out I get the old version overwriting the updated local one. ****!!! that was never an issue before because there was only one copy.

to explain this to all the high and mighty IT guys who live and die by versioning, backups, and testing. my live edit html was not a production file, for all purposes it was my test/backup file. I could view it online and if all good, I could then insert the HTML into my vB template/php that is production.

did I already say ****!!!