Dreamweaver 8 check in/FTP issues

Question

I am one of the senior members on a team of numerous users,
who utilize the Dreamweaver Check-In/Check-Out functionality.
Often, we senior members will delegate simple text changes on a
page, to a lower lever team member, that does not have FTP rights
or Check-In/Check-Out rights.
After they have completed the change, they then send an
upload request. Unfortunately, when we attempt to check in the
file, it will often revert back to it's original state prior to the
change being made.
Has anyone else experienced this issue after updating to DW8?
Is there a workaround or solution? We didn't have this specific
issue with Dreamweaver MX2004.

Answer 1

Have you resolved this? I am running into the same problem
& it's a huge mess for us right now
I had turned Check In/Out on because another person was going
to start working on the site. I had never used Check In/Out before
but I thought it would be intuitive. Definitely my bad on that.
Later, I set up the other person's site definition. She isn't
authorized to upload files, so only has access to the local view on
a shared drive. This meant I wasn't able to turn Check In/Out on
for her, but I didn't think much about it. My bad again, I guess.
She edited a couple of files.
I attempted to put the files she edited. They were
overwritten with the old version.
I guessed this was because of Check In/Out, so I turned it
off in my site profile. I think I checked in or cancelled checkout
of all of the files that had checkmark or lock icons, but not 100%
sure.
When I tried to put the files, I got the error message: "[my
name] is currently working on real/default.asp. (Please enable
CheckIn/Out in the Site Definition dialog box to avoid overwriting
changes made by other users.) Do you want to upload the file
anyway?"
So I turned Check In/Out back on in my site profile, using
the same name, "Marsha". I tried to check in the file both from the
menu and by right clicking on the file name, but the option is
grayed out. When I try to put the file again. I get the same error
message, even though I am the person it says is working on the
file. When I say yes, I get another error message: "default.asp has
changed on the testing server since your last get or put operation.
Putting it may overwrite changes to the file. Do you want to put
the file anyway?" I too think this may be because of something the
server administrator does that updates the last modified date of
the file even though the file has not been edited, and unrelated to
this issue, but I don't know.
I said yes to put the file, but got the error message: "File
activity incomplete. 1 file(s) or folder(s) were not completed."
The message in the log is:
Started: 10/6/2006 10:54 AM
real\default.asp - error occurred - An error occurred -
cannot put default.asp. Access is denied.
File activity incomplete. 1 file(s) or folder(s) were not
completed.
Files with errors: 1
real\default.asp
Finished: 10/6/2006 10:54 AM
I have two questions:
1. Can anyone help get me out of this mess so I can put edits
to these pages again?
2. Is there a book that does a good job of explaining how to
use the site management features of Dreamweaver such as Check
In/Out, configuring and using local/test/remote server set-ups,
etc. I am totally confused about why a file is locked when you
check it in, when/whether I should unlock it, and really about just
about everything about Check In/Out. The book I have doesn't
address it at all, and the online documentation of this just isn't
working for me.