[Pro] Where do I save files?

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Hi folks. Can someone give me some advice about where I should save various files that I wish to use with the ‘Link to File’ and ‘Link to PDF’ actions. Also, what about graphics files? Do they go into Site folder, Media or Resources?

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They only have to be available to your Mac. So they can be on your
local hard drive, a network shared drive, your Dropbox, pretty much
anywhere that Mac OS can resolve a link to the file. Each time you
publish, all linked files (and this is a VERY broad definition – any
picture, movie, sound, PDF, whatever that you have placed on your
pages within Freeway’s design interface or through an Action) will be
checked against Freeway’s internal record of when that file was last
saved. If the file has changed, a new copy of that file will be
made within the Resources folder, and if you upload, that new copy
will replace the old version on the server. There is never any need to
maintain a particular location for any file that Freeway uses.

Now, all of that is true, but if you work with other designers, or
need to have a handle on your files so that you can find something
later, it’s a very good idea to lay out a project folder similar to
how Freeway builds a project when you use the templates:

my groovy project/
	Media/
		music.mp3
		photo.jpg
		white_paper.pdf
	MyGroovyProject.version1.freeway
	MyGroovyProject.version2.freeway
	Site Folder/
		index.html
		Resources/

But if you don’t need this level of organization, trust me, Freeway
can find the files wherever you put them. (Internally, it stores a Mac
OS Alias to each original, and those have an extremely robust lookup
scheme, even to the point of mounting a remote server by dial-up if
you still use that.)

One last point: unless you know precisely what you are doing, and have
an extremely great reason for doing it, NEVER add or remove or modify
anything within the Site Folder or any of its child Resources folders.
Freeway expects that to be its domain, and it will blithely overwrite
any changes you make there, considering any changes that it didn’t
make to be damage worthy of correction.

Walter

On Jul 3, 2011, at 4:56 AM, John Bates wrote:

Hi folks. Can someone give me some advice about where I should save
various files that I wish to use with the ‘Link to File’ and ‘Link
to PDF’ actions. Also, what about graphics files? Do they go into
Site folder, Media or Resources?

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Thanks very much. that was very helpful

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I am converting LOTS of sites from Golive into Freeway Pro. It is okay to setup a folder within the Freeway Folder to store all the images and resources I will be importing and linking? Not inside the SITE folder, but at the same level as the SITE folder? My personal file management system includes a RTF File with special notes and update requests and a folder called --Non-Web-- that has all my original Photoshop and working fies in it that would be there also.

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It is okay to setup a folder within the Freeway Folder to store all the images and resources I will be importing and linking?

It makes more sense to have separate folders for each different Project. Put them in your FW folder if you like.

David

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Freeway Pro lets you start a new document in a couple different ways. If
you choose to start from the template option, FWP builds a folder structure
for your new document that automatically includes a Site folder and a Media
folder. The Site folder is for your published files, the Media folder can
be used for your original materials (that’s how I use it). Creating your
own template is also fairly easy and to your benefit in this context…
instructions for installing your own templates can probably be found either
on the SP website or somewhere in these forums.

–
Ernie Simpson

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:38 AM, DeltaDave email@hidden wrote:

It is okay to setup a folder within the Freeway Folder to store all the
images and resources I will be importing and linking?

It makes more sense to have separate folders for each different Project.
Put them in your FW folder if you like.

David

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