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Enable and disable Design Notes for a site

Design Notes are notes associated with a file, but stored in a separate file. Use Design Notes to keep track of extra file information associated with your documents, such as image source-filenames and comments on file status.

You enable and disable Design Notes for a site in the Design Notes category of the Site Definition dialog box. When you enable Design Notes, you can also choose to share them with others, if you want.

  1. Select Site > Manage Sites.
  2. In the Manage Sites dialog box, select a site, then click Edit.
  3. In the Advanced tab of the Site Definition dialog box, select Design Notes from the Category list on the left.
  4. Select Maintain Design Notes to enable Design Notes (deselect to disable them).
  5. If you want to delete all local Design Notes files for your site, click Clean Up, and then click Yes. (If you want to delete remote Design Notes files, you’ll need to delete them manually).
    Note: The Clean Up Design Notes command only deletes MNO (Design Notes) files. It does not delete the _notes folder or the dwsync.xml file inside the _notes folder. Dreamweaver uses the dwsync.xml file to maintain information about site synchronization.
  6. Select Upload Design Notes For Sharing to upload Design Notes associated with your site with the rest of your documents and click OK.

    • If you select this option, you can share Design Notes with the rest of your team. When you put or get a file, Dreamweaver automatically puts or gets the associated Design Notes file.

    • If you do not select this option, Dreamweaver maintains Design Notes locally but does not upload them with your files. If you work alone on your site, deselecting this option improves performance. Design Notes will not be transferred to the remote site when you check in or put your files and you can still add and modify the Design Notes for your site locally.