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Find Orphaned Files in DW

Folks,

Anyone know offhand if there is a way to show files in the local site that are not linked to anything? I'm in the middle of revamping all my sites and I now have a crap-ton of old images and CSS files hanging around and doing nothing.

I know that DW will alert me if I try to delete a file that is linked to another document on the site, but I want to short-circut this process by searching for orphans somehow.

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thenerdster

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Rouchie

Hi Jason,

I've read a few thread from other sites that state that Frontpage has the tools to find orphaned files. It's a shame that installing it goes against everything a good web designer stands for...!

I presume it's the same for PHP-driven sites, but in the ASP world, many files can be referenced dynamically in code (for stuff like file-download engines etc), and most checker software wouldn't be powerful enough to pick up on these references, so provide inaccurate results!

Jason C. Levine

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*thenerdster:

Thanks, I'm testing it and up to step 4, it works fine. I don't seem to have the Neonix Remove Orphans command in my installation of DW8. Is this a built-in function or an extension?

*Rouchie:

It appears that thenerdster is correct. The orphaned files check is buried under the Check Links Sitewide dialog.

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