Cloak files and folders in your Dreamweaver site

cloaking enables you to exclude files and folders from operations such as Get or Put. You can also cloak all files of a particular type (JPEG, FLV, XML, and so on) from site operations. Dreamweaver remembers your settings for each site so that you don’t have to make selections each time you work on that site.

For example, if you’re working on a large site and you don’t want to upload your multimedia files each day, you can use site cloaking to cloak your multimedia folder. Dreamweaver will then exclude files in that folder from site operations you perform.

You can cloak files and folders on the remote or local site. Cloaking excludes cloaked files and folders from the following operations:

Finding newer local and newer remote files

Performing sitewide operations, such as checking and changing links

Synchronizing

Working with Asset panel contents

Updating templates and libraries

Site cloaking enables you to exclude folders, files, and file types in a site from sitewide operations such as Get or Put, and is enabled by default. You can disable cloaking permanently or just temporarily to perform an operation on all files, including cloaked files. When you disable site cloaking, all cloaked files are uncloaked. When you enable site cloaking again, any previously cloaked files become cloaked again.

can also use the Uncloak All option to uncloak all files, but this does not disable cloaking; also there is no way to re‑cloak all files and folders that were previously cloaked, except to set cloaking again for each folder, file, and file type.

Select Cloaking > (deselect to disable).
Select Cloaking > Settings to open the Cloaking category of the Site Setup dialog box. Select or deselect , and select or deselect Cloak Files Ending With to enable or disable cloaking for specific file types. You can enter or delete file suffixes in the text box that you want to cloak or uncloak.

You can cloak specific files and folders, but you cannot cloak all files and folders or cloak an entire site. When you cloak specific files and folders, you can cloak multiple files and folders at the same time.

Right-click (Windows) or Control‑click (Macintosh), then select Cloaking > Cloak or Cloaking > Uncloak from the context menu. can still perform an operation on a specific cloaked file or folder by selecting the item in the Files panel and performing an operation on it. Performing an operation directly on a file or folder overrides cloaking.

You can indicate specific file types to cloak, so that Dreamweaver cloaks all files ending with a specified pattern. For example, you can cloak all files ending with the .txt extension. The file types that you enter do not have to be file extensions; they can be any pattern at the end of a filename.

For example, you might enter .jpg to cloak all files with names ending in .jpg in your site.

Separate multiple file types with one space; do not use a comma or semicolon.

You can still perform an operation on a specific cloaked file or folder by selecting the item in the Files panel and performing an operation on it. Performing an operation directly on a file or folder overrides cloaking.

Deselect the Cloak Files Ending With option to uncloak all the file types listed in the box.
Delete specific file types from the box to uncloak those file types.

You can uncloak all files and folders in a site at the same time. This action cannot be undone; there is no way to re‑cloak all items that were previously cloaked. You have to re‑cloak items individually.

If you want to temporarily uncloak all folders and files, then re‑cloak those items, disable site cloaking.