and Dreamweaver updates the Site FTP dialog box with the status. 10. When the synchronization finishes, you can choose to save or not save the verification information to a local file. I recommend you choose to save the verification information as it can be handy if you want to review your changes after synchronization is complete. Be very careful of the Delete Remote Files Not on Local Drive option, especially if you have special administrative pages, such as stats files, which are often added to your server space by your service provider to track traffic on your site. Cloaking Options The Dreamweaver Cloaking option enables you to exclude folders or files from all site operations, meaning they wont be uploaded to the live site when youre synchronizing or batching files back and forth. This feature is handy if you have sections of a site that you want to save but dont want visible to your viewers. For example, if you have a special holiday folder that you dont want visible during the rest of the year, you can use the Cloaking feature to save it locally, with the assurance that no one can accidentally publish the files with Dreamweaver until you uncloak them and publish them in December. To use the Cloaking feature, follow these steps: 1. On the Cloaking page of the Site Definition dialog box, select the Enable Cloaking box as shown in Figure 2-14. 2. If you want to cloak files of a certain type, select the Cloak Files Ending With box and enter the extension(s) in the text field. For example, if you want to cloak all your original Photoshop files so they dont upload and take up space on your server, enter the extension .psd. If you want to cloak more than one file type, separate each file extension with a space. Do not use a comma or other delimiter. 3. Click OK to close the Site Definition dialog box and then click the Done button in the Define Sites dialog box to close it. Files matching the extensions specified, if any, are now cloaked. If you want to manually cloak specific folders, continue to Step 4. 68 Part I: Fulfilling Your Dreams 4. On the Files tab of the Files panel, select the folders you want to cloak. You cant cloak individual files, for reasons known only to the Dreamweaver programmers. 5. Right-click (Windows) or Control+click (Mac) and select Cloaking? Cloak from the shortcut menu. To uncloak files or folders, repeat Steps 4 and 5 and select Uncloak from the shortcut menu. You can also use these steps to uncloak all the files in your current site, disable cloaking in the site, and change the cloaking settings. If you disable cloaking for all files, any manual cloaking choices youve made are lost, even if you enable cloaking again later. Figure 2-14: The Cloaking feature enables you to specify files or folders that you dont want transferred