Synchronize gets wrong names for remote files to delete

I am having the same problem, using Win XP Pro SP2 locally with a site hosted
on Windows Server 2003. Has anybody conquered this one yet? It's a real pain to
have to manually delete each file on the remote server.

Thanks,
Linda

thanks i will try to get a comment from Adobe.

thanks i will try to get a comment from Adobe.

I'm having similar issues with Dreamweaver.

I tried to clear the 'dwsync.xml' files and rebuilding cache, but the problem
has persisted. I also tried to delete the preference files, with no luck.

(Dreamweaver CS3 aka 9.0 Build 3481, XP SP2)

I had the same problem and found a solution. In the "Host directory" field of
the Site Definition/Remote Info setup, which was originally blank, I entered
"../" (without the quotes). That solved the problem. I tested changing it back
and forth a couple of times, and verified that just that single change caused
the "Synchronize delete missing first letter bug" to come and go.

The idea that the problem had something to do with the Host Directory entry
came from a 2002 posting from "Big Frank" (link below) in which he solved his
problem by removing a / from the same box. In my case, the bug appeared when I
switched from using a master FTP account that had access to a bunch of websites
on the same server, to a sub-FTP account that could only access the folder
associated with one website. Sync worked perfectly when I used the master FTP
account and had something like /mydomain.com/ in the Host Directory box, but
when I switched to the sub-FTP account and cleared the Host Directory entry,
the Sync delete bug appeared.

I have no idea why the ../ is required, or why it even works. It is a little
strange looking at the remote view to see the root directory showing up as
"/../". But it works .

I found a whole slew of posts showing that Dreamweaver users have been
suffering from this bug since at least 2002 in multiple versions of the
software. Adobe -- it's about time to fix this!

btw... in process of testing this, at one point I put just a "/" in the host
directory box. That didn't fix the original problem, and it introduced a
strange new one in which Dreamweaver wanted to delete some folders on the
server that were "cloaked". Very strange.

Here is a link to "Big Frank's" post:

I had the same problem and found a solution. In the "Host directory" field of
the Site Definition/Remote Info setup, which was originally blank, I entered
"../" (without the quotes). That solved the problem. I tested changing it back
and forth a couple of times, and verified that just that single change caused
the "Synchronize delete missing first letter bug" to come and go.

The idea that the problem had something to do with the Host Directory entry
came from a 2002 posting from "Big Frank" (link below) in which he solved his
problem by removing a / from the same box. In my case, the bug appeared when I
switched from using a master FTP account that had access to a bunch of websites
on the same server, to a sub-FTP account that could only access the folder
associated with one website. Sync worked perfectly when I used the master FTP
account and had something like /mydomain.com/ in the Host Directory box, but
when I switched to the sub-FTP account and deleted the Host Directory entry,
the Sync delete bug appeared.

I have no idea why the ../ is required, or why it even works. It is a little
strange looking at the remote view to see the root directory showing up as
"/../". But it works .

I found a whole slew of posts showing that Dreamweaver users have been
suffering from this bug since at least 2002 in multiple versions of the
software. Adobe -- it's about time to fix this!

btw... in process of testing this, at one point I put just a "/" in the host
directory box. That didn't fix the original problem, and it introduced a
strange new one in which Dreamweaver wanted to delete some folders on the
server that were "cloaked". Very strange.

Here is a link to "Big Frank's" post:


http://groups.google.com/group/macro...d/thread/3ec43
202212a4381/f0d85f022db158af

[q]Originally posted by: jambajuiced
I had the same problem and found a solution. In the "Host directory" field of
the Site Definition/Remote Info setup, which was originally blank, I entered
"../" (without the quotes). That solved the problem...
[/q]

Thank you!! Works perfectly now. As you say, why didn't Adobe write a tech
note or fix this over the past 6 years?

For what it's worth, DW CS4 Beta finally fixes the bug - the host directory
can be blank and the delete list is correctly constructed.

Thanks again!
Karl