Developing with Dreamweaver has been a joy. However, when you want to use DW together with other tools, the “_notes” directories DW creates, tend to get in the way. These directories are created to keep synchronization information and (when you use this) notes for team-development. The problem is that if you want to use a different tool to manage your project, the _notes directory is not needed and should not be uploaded either.
Some tools have a “cloaking” option to cloak _notes directories and prevent them from being deployed/uploaded. Use it if possible (for example Aptana Studio and Eclipse allow this) to be able to go back to DW.
If you don’t want to go back or your tool does not support cloaking (like Netbeans I am using at the moment) you need to delete the _notes directory by hand.
I hate doing 100+ deletes by hand so I searched in my toolbox and found that I could easily do it with 4NT from JPSoft which I am using for over 10 years now.
Open a 4NT command prompt, change to the development directory where your code is and execute the following line:
global /i rd _notes /S /Q
This will delete all your _notes from all your directories in one go.
Bill
30-09-2010 at 05:13
We use cleanweaver to clean up the _notes directories before publishing. It’s free and it works every time. http://www.gnidesign.com/products/cleanweaver/