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4. The Main Interface

At the top is the menu. At the moment, all you can do from the menu is exactly the same as from the toolbar. You can use the buttons in this bar to perform operations on your website(s). It can also be used to create & delete sites, as well as get further help.

The main area below the toolbar is split into 2. On the left is a tree view. This shows the title of each site as an entry in the tree.

If you expand these items, the files that are related to the selected site will be shown. Clicking on a file brings up information about that file in the right side of the window.

4.1 Sites

If you click on a site, the details and attributes of that site will be displayed in the main area of the program. These are divided into what are hopefully logical sections. Each section is separated by a frame, described below.

Server Details

Update Attributes

Statistics

Provides a short summary of the changes (if any) to the local site, since the last update was performed.

Locations

File attributes

Advanced

Chances are that while you're editing html locally, things like backup files will get created. While useful, it's likely you don't want them uploaded to your remote web site. The excludes section allows you to specify regular expressions. Any files on the local site matching these expressions will be ignored by XSitecopy.

For example my excludes consist of:

because I don't want any backups or core dumps uploaded. I also have a sub-directory on my local site called 'oldweb' which I keep for nostalgic purposes only. This is not uploaded by specifying it as 'an exclude'.


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