Deleted files and folders in Dreamweaver keep reappearing

What files and folders are you deleting?  _notes?

Yes and no.  It tells me that you are not trying to delete the folder that DW uses for internal purposes and *will* recreate, and it tells me that the return of these items you are deleting is not something that is caused by DW.  Who/what is doing it?  I have no idea.

I agree with Murray.

If you physically delete the files from your hard drive, they cannot appear in DW or anywhere, because they DON'T exist.

It's like saying "I ate a hambugger and when I finished it, it was back on my plate again."  Just not possible. There is something seriously wrong elsewhere, but DW cannot create files where they don't exist without a user prompt.

But, if you find out DW can do this, please tell me.  My business could use it!

Hi Debdye,

By chance did you figure out how to solve that problem?  I have searched high and low and could not find a solution.  Every time I did files or folders, not too long after they reappear.  I am trying to clean house of all these useless files.  And it's difficult to move forward with things aren't in order.

Help!

- Dee

Your _notes folder is used by dreamweaver, so its the normal operation of dreamweaver to create _note folders in your website, their automatically cloacked so they won't appear on your live site. As long as you define sites in Dreamweaver the program starts to create the _notes folder.

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So I figured I would create a folder called stupidfileswontdie.  It only made things worse because I have two of everything now.

smh.. I am really annoyed.  My next step is to get in contact with Dreamweaver themselves.  There has to be a solution to this.

I have CS5.

Also, is there a way of finding out which files orginated from which template?

dje

I'm just tossing out some wild ideas.

Are you able to delete files from other folders on your computer with Windows Explorer or File Manager?

Is your local site stored on a removal disk like a flash or external hard drive?

Have you run a complete system diagnostic scan of your computer lately?

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1. Open up Site Manager and select your website.
2. Click the Advanced tab and Local Info under Category.
3. Uncheck the "Enable Cache" checkbox. Yes leave it unchecked, it's more of a resourced hog than an asset.
4. Go down the Category list to Remote Info and uncheck "Maintain synchronization information" if it is selected.
5. Go down the Category list to Version Control. Are you using and version control solution that might be rebuilding the last saved file set? Solved? No? Keep going.
6. Under Category select Design Notes. Uncheck the Maintain Design Notes checkbox and then click on the "Clean Up..." button. Leave this unchecked.
7. Click the OK button to save your changes and exit Site Manager. Exit Dreamweaver.
8. Download CleanWeaver from the GniDesign website. It's a free tool from GniDesign that hunts out the _Notes folders on Windows systems and deletes them safely!

CleanWeaver 1.0

You're welcome

Hey debdye,

I figured out the problem.  It has NOTHING to do with Dreamweaver and EVERYTHING to do with the server that the site is on.

The server my site is on has multiple users on it updating information. 

So in order to prevent users from deleting files accidentally, the administrator set it up so that when you click delete the server copies it back.

I created a folder called "trash folder" and drag unused file that I really want to delete inside.   The server moved the file and minutes later copied the file back from where it came.

All the suggestions above I tried and it didn't work.

However, once the administrator move my site to a different location with less restrictions, I was a happy webdude.  Delete = Bye Bye!

Good luck Debdye...

Let me know if it works for you.

Be aware that getting rid of the _notes folders *will* have some consequences.  For example, your Design-time styles will no longer work as expected....

@debdye - I'm glad this worked for you, it's nice to hear success stories!

@Murray, I'm a DW user for 12 years, always disable the Notes fucntionality and my design time css styles have never been effected by this. This is more likely related to incorrect stylesheet linking.

Not at all.  A Design-time stylesheet is ONLY linked while you are in DW.  It allows you to display a page with styles that might be dynamically specified and not used in a normal Display view rendering.  Please read the F1 Help about what a DT stylesheet does. It's definitely affected by the forced absence of the Notes files since that's where the DT stylesheet link is written.