2 Replies Latest reply: Jan 27, 2014 8:17 PM by mytaxsite.co.uk

Preventing potential extra blank lines through ftp

Herbert2001 Jan 8, 2014 4:33 PM

For people having issues with DW (or any other ftp app) adding extra blank lines: changing the ftp mode to BINARY probably solves this behaviour. It happened once to me when using Filezilla ftp.

Dreamweaver automatically uses ASCII to transfer readable text based files (like html and php). To change this transfer mode to BINARY, open FTPExtensionMap.txt (WIndows in AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS6\en_US\Configuration) and edit that file in a text editor.

Then change the appropriate mappings.

Hope that helps fix the problem.It's a known problem in certain cases, though I haven't experienced it a lot (just once a few years ago in Filezilla, actually). It has to do with how a Windows system and certain Linux systems might interpret CR LF and LF line endings.

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es73 Jan 8, 2014 8:01 PM (in response to Herbert2001)

Good advice - thanks.
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mytaxsite.co.uk Jan 27, 2014 8:17 PM (in response to Herbert2001)

And if it is too late i.e. if the damage is already done with your code populated with 1000s of blank lines then you can remove them in seconds by going to:

Commands >> Apply Source Formatting

This should clear all your blank lines and your source code would be formatted nicely.

This is true for CS6 and earlier versions; I don't use CC version so only those people using it can vouch for this.
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