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Checking for broken, external, and orphaned links

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Checking for broken, external, and 
orphaned links

Use the Check Links feature to search for broken links and unreferenced—also known as 
orphaned—files (files that still exist in the site but no other files in the site link to) in an open 
file, a portion of a local site, or an entire local site. 

The only links that Dreamweaver verifies are links to documents within the site; 
Dreamweaver compiles a list of external links that appear in the selected document or 
documents, but does not verify them.

You can also identify and delete files that are no longer used by other files in your site. For 
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To check links within the current document:

1.

Save the file to a location within your local Dreamweaver site.

2.

Select File > Check Page > Check Links.

The Broken Links report appears in the Link Checker panel (in the Results panel group).

3.

In the Link Checker panel, select External Links from the Show pop-up menu to view 
another report. 

The External Links report appears in the Link Checker panel (in the Results panel group).

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To save the report, click the Save Report button in the Link Checker panel.

To check links within a portion of a local site:

1.

In the Files panel, select a site from the Current Sites pop-up menu.

2.

In Local view, select the files or folders to check.

3.

Initiate the check by doing one of the following:

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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) one of the selected files, and 
then select Check Links > Selected Files/Folders from the context menu.

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Select File > Check Page > Check Links.

The Broken Links report appears in the Link Checker panel (in the Results panel group).

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You can check for orphaned files when you check links across an entire site.

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The target browser report is a temporary file—it will be lost if you don’t save it.