Background File Activity Hangs

I've about had it with Dreamweaver because of this one single
problem. If I restart my system and open Dreamweaver, I can work
for a few minutes or an hour, or a few seconds, or a whole day, but
at some point along the way, guaranteed, Background File Activity
hangs during a PUT function or a Save (automatically put) function
and the resulting file on the server corrupts itself and reads a
zero length.
This is particularly annoying because it screws up my site's
styling...GRRRRR.

Just guessing here (I haven't experienced this), but does it help to rebuild your site cache? Site->Recreate Site Cache
Or, commonly these days, follow the steps for removing a corrupted cache file here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/417116
Note that it may take some time to rebuild the cache if you have a lot of files in your site(s). Perhaps longer if the local files are on a different computer (LAN).
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :-)
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The Background File Activity Window Is Annoying. Any tips on removing?

So, I just started using Dreamweaver CC after having been on hiatus from the program for nearly a decade. I have to say, most of the things I hated it for, and stopped using it because of, have been corrected. Kudos, Adobe, for fixing what was everyone's least favorite program in the suite.
Anywho, all that said, I am still annoyed on a very VERY regular basis by the program issuing an extremely pesky pop-up window anytime I attempt to Put files to my Remote or Testing server. I took a screenshot of the nasty bugger and have attached it here. The Background File Activity window closes when the Put action results in no errors or warnings. That's fine, but EVERY SINGLE TIME I put an HTML file that has references to external files (**so ya know like ANY HTML FILE EVER**), the window stays up and requires me to take action on closing it. THIS IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING. The error message displayed in the window doesn't even seem to be accurate (- error occurred - Access denied. The file may not exist locally, may be open in another program, or there could be a local permission problem), because it DOES put the HTML file in question. Perhaps the worst characteristic of this window is that is floats above everything else on my desktop. That means if I want to do a local>remote sync or just upload a bigger bunch of files, and then jump back into Photoshop to keep working on assets in there, I eventually am interrupted by this window popping up. This thing is worse than my cat trying to lay on my hands when I'm typing.
So, if anyone has any suggestions on how to turn this frustrating dialogue off, I would be very grateful.
My system specs are: Yosemite (Mac OS 10.10.1) and Dreamweaver CC 2014.1 (15.0.0.6947).
MUCHO DANKES

its not FTP information, the site is defined as Local
Network. I have a drive
lets say M:\ mapped to \\machine\webroot or whatever and then
point my DW8 site
to M:\webroot
It can synchronize all it wants, all day long for all I
care...... just lose
the focus so I can switch windows??? You don't name something
'background' file
activity when its in your face and causing nothing to respond
appropriately in
the 'foreground' lol.

Set default for background file activity

Does anyone know how to have Dreamweaver 8 have the
Background File Activity to default to
always show details"
? I know it seems like a little thing but I always have to try
to get to the arrow to click it to show Details and when there are
just a few files, it's nearly impossible to get there quickly
enough.
I thought that perhaps DW8 might remember the last setting
but that doesn't appear to be the case. My system is running
Windows XP Pro SP2 with IE 7..
Thank you,
Stretchr

Done! I hope that they listen to our suggestions. I am still
more than a bit wary of how this product will fare now that Adobe
owns it but maybe I'll be surprised.
Cheers,
Stretchr
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> Does anyone know how to have Dreamweaver 8 have the
Background File
> Activity to default to
always show details"
? I know it
> seems
> like a little thing but I always have to try to get to
the arrow to click
> it to
> show Details and when there are just a few files, it's
nearly impossible
> to get
> there quickly enough.
>
> I thought that perhaps DW8 might remember the last
setting but that
> doesn't
> appear to be the case. My system is running Windows XP
Pro SP2 with IE 7..
>
> Thank you,
> Stretchr
>

Background File Activity incomplete

Hi all,
I don't know what I did to turn this on, but I certainly
can't find out how to turn it off !
I have a project called TestCode. Every time I launch a page
from within Dreamweaver 8
I get the following message:
Background File Activity - TestCode
File activity incomplete. 1 file(s) or folder(s) were not
completed.
Details:
Started: 21/05/2007 10:29 AM
newgrid\dbtest.asp - error occurred - An error occurred -
cannot put dbtest.asp. Access is denied.
File activity incomplete. 1 file(s) or folder(s) were not
completed.
Files with errors: 1
newgrid\dbtest.asp
Finished: 21/05/2007 10:29 AM
This occurs with every file within the TestCode project, but
I have many other projects defined and running
and I don't get this error message.
Can someone please point me in the right direction ???
Driving me nuts with the number of times this popup comes up...
regards,
Matt.

Matt:
I'm tapped. I recommend you contact Adobe directly and use
one of your
one-on-one support incidents.
http://www.adobe.com/support/programs/dreamweaver/index.html?tab:contact=1
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"matt_pegg" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi Murray,
>
> > The error message you are getting always contains
the name of the
> > current
> > page?
>
> Yes. Any page that I launch from Dreamweaver produces
the Background
> Activity
> Error dialog,
> for the TestCode site, and the TestCode site only. The
name of the
> current
> page is in the error
> message.
>
> > Is it possible that you have enabled the "Automatic
PUT on Save" option
> > in
> > your site definition?
>
> "Automatically upload files to server on save" under
Remote Info on the
> Site
> Definition dialog,
> which I think is what you're referring to, is not
checked... Note: After
> scouring the net this is the
> option that I looked at first, but its not set, like my
other defined
> sites
> which are working fine.
> I'm at a loss to work out whats going wrong... and,
unfortunately, there
> isn't
> much info at all on
> the error that I'm getting.
>
> regards,
> Matt.
>

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How do I turn off background ni file activity when not using Labview? I use labview rarely, and I also use my computer for demanding multimedia applications, including multitrack digital audio recording. I need to reduce as much background activity as possible, and taking a look with task manager I see files such as nimxs.exe, nipalsm.exe, nipalsm.exe, nisvcloc.exe, and nicitdl5.exe running even when I haven't used Labview (8 I believe). These files run even after I right click the NI icon on the lower right and turn off the application. I would like the computer to boot up without these files, and for the necessary files to be activated only when I start the program.
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Travis M
LabVIEW R&D
National Instruments

File Activity Incomplete

I am a beginner with web design but have put my own site up and now was trying to help my church out... Remade their site and all was well till something happened and my Contact Us page's content disappeared. So I remade the page and tried to upload it to the server ( which is located etc) and I get a message which reads: File Activity Incomplete 1file or Folders were not completed. I am stumped. Can anyone give me a clue?
Thanks much
Web address: http://www.rockisland.com/~lutheransanjuans/index.html
Text of error:
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News.html - Put operation successful
newImages:TemplateLong.jpg - same - not transferred
newImages:CartoonJohn.jpg - same - not transferred
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newImages:Template.jpg - same - not transferred
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newImages:StFrancisPge.jpg - same - not transferred
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newImages:WhoWeAre.jpg - same - not transferred
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newImages:CenterChurchLopez.jpg - same - not transferred
newImages:OrcasChurch.jpg - same - not transferred
newImages:SanJuanChurch.jpg - same - not transferred
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CenterChurch.html
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Contact Us</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style></head>
<body>
<div id="apDiv24">
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<p><a href="WorshipTimes.html">Worship Times and Places</a></p>
<p><a href="WhoWeAre.html">Who We Are</a></p>
<a href="News.html">News and Activities</a>
<p><a href="OtherLinks.html">Other Links</a></p>
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<p><span class="info"><span class="style2">                                 CONTACT US</span><br />
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dana

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