Importing graphics in Dreamweaver MX 2004

Question

On some computers I am finding Dreamweaver MX 2004 imports
images as imagesfilename into the root folder - and not as the
original filename into the default images folder. Is there a
setting that I should be aware of?

Answer 1

I am teacing in Further and Higher Education so sometimes get
classes of 20 plus students. We have been usoing DW MX 2004 for 4
years (CS3 in September!). I have never seen this happen before bur
my colleague says that he has occasionally. Students work from a
network drive in most cases. They would normally create their
sites's root folder on their network area, create an images folder
in this, copy any images required in the site into the images
folder, define a DW site pointing to the 'root folder' and set up
the images folder as the default images folder.
When they need to add further images during developement,
they would either copy those images into the images folder (using
their file mangement program) or use Insert (menu bar)/Images etc.
and navigate to the image(s) they require (outside the site
folder). For two students last Tuesday when they did the latter the
files were 'renamed' and put in the site's 'root' or top folder.
(The files being brought into the site were originally sited in the
same general area as the site's root folder). I have tried to
reproduce this (unsuccessfuly) on a couple of other computers -
albeit briefly - and also looked at the settings on the student's
computers. I have not yet checked whether this action moves round
with the student's network profile.
I don't normally get students to bring image files into their
sites in this way during developemnt - but it should work -
shouldn't it? That is the point of having a default images folder.
We are using Windows XP OS and Novell Network Client.
I really can't work this one out - so would appreciate any
comments. Thanks.