Site definition backup?

Where are site definitions stored so I can backup automatically?
All I can find is manual 'one at a time' exporting?
Thx

They aren't "stored" per se. You can export all of your sites at the same time by Shift + Clicking or Ctrl + Clicking multiple sites before doing the export.

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Dreamweaver site definition backup

Hi there,
Very straightforward question.
I look after loads of site, IE. have got loads for site
connection
information within Dreamweaver. Sometimes I need to reload my
system... you
know the deal, system problems etc.
Is there a file/s that I can backup so I can preserve all the
site
definition information?
Big thanks,
@ndyB

Nice one.
Thanks,
@ndyB
"A.Translator" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> Is there a file/s that I can backup so I can
preserve all the site
>> definition information?
>
> Site > Manage Sites > Export
>
> or use mm exporter from
http://mm-exporter.joexx.de/
>
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thanks again
lenny
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> lenny wrote:
>> and just of curiousity: the "import" works too?
>
> Just out of curiosity, why not give it a try? :-)
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Backing up and restoring site definitions

Losing your site definitions in Dreamweaver can be a disaster, but it does happen sometimes. The best way to prepare for such an eventuality is to back up your site definitions on a regular basis.
Creating a backup
You can back up all your site definitions in a single operation by selecting Site > Manage Sites. In the dialog box that opens, Shift-click to select all site names, and then click Export.
In Dreamweaver CS6, the Manage Sites dialog box looks like this:
In earlier versions of Dreamweaver, it looks like this:
Dreamweaver asks if you want to include passwords and login details (this is the default option). Whichever option you choose will be applied to all sites, so click Cancel if you want to treat some sites separately, and export your sites in two sets by using Ctrl/Cmd-click to select them.
When you click OK, Dreamweaver asks where you want to export the definitions. Navigate to a suitable location, leave the File name field unchanged, and click Save. Although only one site name is listed in the File name field, Dreamweaver exports all the site definitions as .ste files in a single operation.
NOTE: This process backs up only the details of your sites, such as the location of the root folder, FTP details, and so on. It does not back up the actual files in your site, such as .html (or .php, .asp, .cfm) files, images, and style sheets. It's a good idea to use your normal file backup routine on your actual files from time to time, as well as exporting the site definitions.
Restoring site definitions
In the event of losing your site definitions in Dreamweaver or moving to a new computer, open the Manage Sites dialog box, and use the Import button to navigate to your backup .ste files.
What if I don't have a backup?
Often, if you don't have a backup of .ste files, you need to go through the whole process of re-entering the details for each site manually.
However, you might be able to restore them by using a restore point on Windows or Time Machine in Mac OS X.
On Windows, the site definitions for Dreamweaver CS6 are stored in the Windows Registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Common\12.0\Sites.
In Mac OS X, they are at Macintosh HD:<username>:Library:Application Support:Adobe:Common:12.0:Sites:Site Prefs.
In recent versions of Mac OS X, the Library folder is hidden. In the Mac Finder, select Go > Go to Folder, type ~/Library in the search field, and click Go.
Dreamweaver CS5.5 site definitions are in the same location, except use 11.5 instead of 12.0. The numbers for CS4 and CS3 are 10 and 9 (without a decimal fraction) respectively. For earlier versions of Dreamweaver, substitute Macromedia for Adobe, and adjust the number accordingly.
If you don't have a backup of the actual files on your site, download the files from your remote server.

Hello,
We are running iPlanet 5.2 Messaging Server and need
to migrate to another (duplicate) 5.2 Messaging
Server. We have all the software installed and the
LDAP user accounts created. Now we just need to move
the existing mail from one server to the other.
I found the Backing Up and Restoring the Message
Store section in the Admin Guide says to back up and
restore your data, Messaging Server provides the
imsbackup and imsrestore utilities.
However I am wondering about the Queue?
Under <instance>/imta/queue
What is the difference between the Message Store
and the Queue? The Message Store is where messages get delivered to, so you can read them.'
The queue is where messages are temporarily stored, pending delivery to wherever they go.
You can use tar, cpio, or what have you for the queue. Stop the server first. . .
You then just restore the files to the new server. No need to restart or anything like that. Just dump the files in, and run
imsimta cache -sync
to tell the MTA to re-read the queue.
Can I just backup and restore the
Queue using tar or cpio?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Regards,
Tim

How do I manually recreate the site definition (.ste) for an existing site?

My iMac hard drive recently failed and had to be replaced.
Though I had backed up my web site files, I don't have a backup of the site's Site Management (*.ste) file.
Thus, I'm unable to manage this site in Dreamweaver (reinstalled on the new hard drive).
In some forum threads, there are references to "manually recreating the site definition." How do I do this?
Thanks!

paintwlight wrote the following:
Does Putting the site to the remote server constitute an Export, whereby a .ste file would have been created during the Put process and, therefore, exist on the remote server?
No. Hit F1 and search for Export.
If so, I assume that if I copy the .ste file currently on the remote server and save it locally (into Library:Application Support:Adobe:Common:9:Sites:Site Prefs), all will be well and Dreamweaver will once again be able to manage the site.
DW can manage the site after you have defined the site as mentioned
earlier. It does not need the .ste files at all. Those are created by
the user via the Export feature and are not used by DW itself.
Gosh, I wish I would have known about the .ste file before my hard drive died. This seems like way too much responsibility to put on one teeny tiny little file -- especially one that's not kept with the rest of the web site files.
The .ste file contains only the paths to your site and the login
information - if you choose to include that information. It does not
contain any of the actual files. DW does not act as a backup or archival
program. You need to keep backups of your entire site (including source
files used to create the site, such as Photoshop/Fireworks layered
images, Flash .fla files, etc...) as well as backups of the .ste files.
HTH
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin'

Backing up Site Definitions in Ultradev 1.0

I'm finally going to upgrade, but I have a lot of Site
Definitions in Dreamweaver Ultradev 1.0.
Is there a way to backup and transfer Site Definitions from
Ultradev 1.0 to the latest Dreamweaver on a new PC?
I did find a few utilities but none that support backing up
from the old Ultradev 1.0 version.

Good idea....
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> Or export them one by one if it doesn't work and
reimport them. You can
> multiple-select site definitions when importing.
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> "Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]>
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>> You're hosed, I believe, unfortunately. Even the
best of the utilities
>> available doesn't dig that deep -
>>
>> MM-Exporter recognizes installed versions of
Dreamweaver® 3, 4, UD4, MX,
>> MX 2004 and DW8 under Windows and saves selectively:
>>
>> (taken from
http://mm-exporter.joexx.de)
>>
>> But, since it's free, you could get it and try it.
>>
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>> "Soporose" <[email protected]>
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>>> I'm finally going to upgrade, but I have a lot
of Site Definitions in
>>> Dreamweaver Ultradev 1.0.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to backup and transfer Site
Definitions from Ultradev 1.0
>>> to
>>> the latest Dreamweaver on a new PC?
>>>
>>> I did find a few utilities but none that support
backing up from the old
>>> Ultradev 1.0 version.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

How can I change remote site definition without breaking all of the links?

I've created a website and put it here http://home.comcast.net/~alpsf/index.html to test it during construction. Now when I change the remote site definition on the local site in DW, all of the links are broken. I now suspect the problem is that I made it site root-relative, and DW inserted /~alpsf/ in all of the links. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks very much.

You can do a find and replace to change the links globally. Make sure you do a complete backup of the site prior to doing this incase you don't do it correctly. Let me stress that again, backup your entire site incase you need to restore. If you have created a "new site" and this will not be part of the /~alpsf site, then you will need to define a new site and copy all the files into that folder (I am guessing this is the case). I would copy the files outside of Dreamweaver. You could do this without touching the files in the ~alpsf directory. There are a lot of variable here as I don't know exactly what you are doing.
On the file menu select window/results-select search. (this is done if the search window is not open).
Find in: Entire Current Local Site
Search: Source Code
Find: "/~alpsf/
Replace:"/
That should do it, but this is a very tricky thing. I wouldn't have a problem doing this as long as I have everything backed up.
Jim
Edited:You might have to go into your css, spry files and any others that has links to do the same (this time only select Find in: Current document once the document is open). Once that is done, delete the whole remote site and upload the changes once you check that everything is completed.

Help - Site Definition Files

Hi
My PC recently crashed and I have had to restore DW 8,
however when I open DW the list of sites has disappeared.
I had previously exported all the site information using the
Backup/Export process and I can import the STE files but it has
been a while since I have done that and some of the newer sites
aren't included.
Within DW is there a configuration file that keeps a list of
the sites and login details etc, ie when you click on Manage Sites
it lists all the current sites? As ideally I would like to restore
those files from a previous tape backup ratehr than sit down and
recreate them again.
Kind regards
Steven

If you do not have recent site definition exports you will
have to recreate
those site definitions manually. Sorry....
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> Hi
>
> My PC recently crashed and I have had to restore DW 8,
however when I open
> DW
> the list of sites has disappeared.
>
> I had previously exported all the site information using
the Backup/Export
> process and I can import the STE files but it has been a
while since I
> have
> done that and some of the newer sites aren't included.
>
> Within DW is there a configuration file that keeps a
list of the sites and
> login details etc, ie when you click on Manage Sites it
lists all the
> current
> sites? As ideally I would like to restore those files
from a previous tape
> backup ratehr than sit down and recreate them again.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Steven
>

Dreamweaver 8 removes site definitions

Does anyone know if the problem of Dreamweaver 8 removing
site definitions of previous versions of dreamweaver on
installation is a bug in the installation or is it just my machine
or just with a studio upgrade.
Secondly anyone know how i can retrieve the site definitions
i previously had on MX2004 before installing v8.
Noticably it has left the extensions allow but blanked the
definitions;
NOT GOOD !!!!!!!!!!

In this case, DW8 removed the site definitions for a previous
version on
installation. I don't think that's a known issue.
In the case you are making reference to, DW seems to just
lose its
definitions for some at random times. It hasn't happened to
me but once,
and that was with DW4, I believe. It seems to happen to
others more often
than that. Of course, your suggestion for backups is ALWAYS a
good idea - I
keep them religiously. OP may find this utility useful for
that -
http://mm-exporter.joexx.de
Who knows whether these two issues are simply different sides
of the same
coin? I sure don't, but I suspect they are not.
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> Murray *ACE* wrote:
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>> Different issue, James.
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> What is the real issue, then?
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Where have my site definitions gone?

I launched Dreamweaver CS5 today, only to find that none of my 30+ sites were available in my Site Management window, and I don't know why. The only clue I have is that a couple weeks back, I updated all of my Adobe programs, for the first time in a month or two. Dreamweaver was among them, as I remember it specifically.
Since that update, I hadn't launched DW until today, only to find my sites missing.
I've found a few posts about something similar to this, and have attempted their solutions. These include verifying/repairing my keychain, and replacing my Site Prefs file (user>library>application support>adobe>common>10>sites) from a Time Machine backup. Neither of these worked.
I have months of solid backups through Time Machine, at this point I just don't know what I need to restore though. Does anyone have any insight or suggestions to how to remedy this problem? It will be a major inconvenience to have to setup all these site again.
PS. Note that all my site files are secure, I have only lost the site definitions in Dreamweaver.
Thanks in advance for any help on this matter.

I launched Dreamweaver CS5 today, only to find that none of my 30+ sites were available in my Site Management window, and I don't know why.
Nobody does! This is an intermittent (luckily rare) problem that DW has had for years. THe solution of course is to keep a full backup of your site definitions using the Site Manager's EXPORT function.
Anyhow, on a Mac, your site and site prefs are saved here -
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/11/Sites

CS3 quit and lost all site definitions

I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary when Dreamweaver
CS3 suddenly quit. When I relaunched the app, all my site
definitions were gone. Any idea why or how I can get them back?

Had you EXPORTED your site definitions previously? If not,
you may be out
of luck.
It's always a good idea to keep a backup of your site
definitions by
EXPORTing them from Site Manager to cover you for just this
kind of thing.
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>i am on a macbook pro running 10.5.4
>
> i actually wrote the wrong thing earlier... it wasn't
dreamweaver that
> crashed, it was the whole computer... got that gray
screen that says i
> should
> hold down the power button for a few seconds.
>

Restore Site definitions from CS 4

I recently updated from CS4 to CS 5.5 on My Mac running OS X 10.6.8. I uninstalled all CS 4 components befroe installing. Now I realize I forgot to export my existing sites before uninstalling. I do have a backup and I know where the sites exist within ~Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS4/en_US/Configuration. However, if I just restore this folder and replace the current SitesCache folder with this one, it does not see the sites. Is there a way to get CS 5.5 to recognize these sites?

AFAIK, you have only 2 options:
Import saved .ste files from a previous export. You would have had to do this from CS4. If not,
Enter site information manually.
Afterwards, be sure to export all your site definitions to a safe place. Do it again if you make any changes. I keep one set in my local site folders and another set on a removable flash drive.
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Aargh - DW deleted all site definitions

Hi there
I've just installed DW8 without any problems - the whole
process was smooth
and all site definitions were ported across.
I then (as instructed) went on to delete DWMX2004 and 'bang'
suddenly all my
site definitions are gone from DW8 and I'm back to square one
I did do a backup of the DW MX2004 site profiles etc using
the MM-Exporter
tool (just in case) but trying to use this to recreate in DW8
doesn't work
as it says there are loads of files missing which it needs (I
guess from the
DW MX 2004 installation)
Can anyone shed any words of wisdom before I have to go
through and
reconfigure 60 or 70 site definitions?
Thanks
Jos

> I did do a backup of the DW MX2004 site profiles etc
using the MM-Exporter
> tool (just in case) but trying to use this to recreate
in DW8 doesn't work
> as it says there are loads of files missing which it
needs (I guess from
> the DW MX 2004 installation)
What? The exporter works with DMX2004 to DW8. What kind of
errors did you
get? To tell you the truth, I haven't used it since DW began
doing exports
of multiple sites, which works just fine.
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> Hi there
>
> I've just installed DW8 without any problems - the whole
process was
> smooth and all site definitions were ported across.
>
> I then (as instructed) went on to delete DWMX2004 and
'bang' suddenly all
> my site definitions are gone from DW8 and I'm back to
square one :(
>
> I did do a backup of the DW MX2004 site profiles etc
using the MM-Exporter
> tool (just in case) but trying to use this to recreate
in DW8 doesn't work
> as it says there are loads of files missing which it
needs (I guess from
> the DW MX 2004 installation)
>
> Can anyone shed any words of wisdom before I have to go
through and
> reconfigure 60 or 70 site definitions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jos
>

Site Definitions Gone

Hello All,
I launched DW CS3 today and my site definitions have all disappeared. They were their last week and for months before that, but when I launched today, all of them are gone. I haven't done any updates to my machine recently that would have effected this as far as i know.
1. What could have happened?
2. How can I get DW to see my preferences or what ever it needs to "re-connect" to my site definitons. I'm running Mac OS 10.5.6 on a new'ish 24" imac.
Any and all help is really appreciated since I have pretty much all my connections data in the site definitions.
Thanks!
Steven O'

1. Crash happens. Backup regularly.
2. Reload from backup. See step 1

Where is the site definitions?

I had to reformat my hard drive, but I do have a backup. I
re-installed DW-CS4, and would like to restore the site
definitions, as I have several and don't want to have to start from
scratch.

The problem is that the site definitions (not the site files
- the
DEFINITIONS for the site) are saved in the Windows Registry,
and to get at
them, you need to boot from the drive (there are utilities
that might help
you - I cannot vouch for them, though). If you have not
exported them and
saved the export files, you will have to redefine each site,
most likely.
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>I did not export them, but my backup is on a removable
drive and is in an
>image
> file which I can restore individual files. I do have
another drive which
> I can
> restore the whole image to a working drive.
>

Site definition backup?

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