If you have content in one site that you’d like to use in another site that you've defined in Dreamweaver, you could certainly copy your files to the second site's local root folder on your hard drive. However, there's a much easier way to do this is directly from the Assets panel itself.

Here's how to copy assets to other sites:

1. In the Asset panel, open the category that contains your asset, then select it.
2. From the Asset panel’s Option menu,  choose Copy to Site, then select the site you’d like to copy the asset to in the sub-menu.

Not only does Dreamweaver copy the asset into the second site, it also creates any necessary folder structure that the current site has.

For example, if you copied a file that was saved in "img / products / camping" and the new site has an "img" folder, but not the "products" or "camping" subfolders, Dreamweaver will create them for you. Further, if the copied file was a part of your Favorites asset list in the previous site, Dreamweaver will add it to your Favorites in the new site. How smokin' is that!?

To copy a folder of favorites to anther site, try right-clicking on it (Control-clicking on Mac), and choosing Copy to Site.

3. Click Refresh Site List at the bottom of the Assets panel.

This updates the Assets panel. If you add or remove assets, either within or outside of Dreamweaver, the Assets panel won’t reflect the changes right away.

Note: Because colors and URLs have no file to copy, they’ll only appear in the Assets panel’s Favorites when they’re copied to another site.

Here's another cool tip: A really helpful fella is the Locate in Site command. Wanna know where an image is stored in your site? Right-click on it (Control-click on Mac) and choose Locate in Site. The Files panel opens (unless it’s already on screen) and highlights the corresponding asset.

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