Leonardo,
Thanks for supporting this idea. As I outlined in my previous post, I think would be a relatively simple feature addition, which, as you suggest couold be linked to a setting that allowed it to be switched off.

It is over a year since I suggested this feature and I am still convinced it would be useful.

Dimitri, can we request putting this on the formal list of features requests?

Thanks,

Will

Sorry, I see no other ways but Smart-Sync and source-control systems.
IF you think they are not appropriate, please let me know why.

What was suggested here by the other users sounds even less approrpiate. Suppose IDE remembers all uploads. Does it mean that the info is always accurate? What if other developers have updated some files too?
It's source-control system's task to keep track of all changes in the sources and provide consistent snapshots.

Dmitri

Smart-Sync and source-control are both excellent features. However, in my experience there are many times that it is not appropriate to use them. Perhaps that is a feature of working as a lone developer

When I am working on code, I usually have several php/html files open. Quite often I am working on adding new feaures to a project and I need to test a concept live on-line where I don't want to commit all the open files to live online. That would be necessary if I used Smart-Sync.

Conversely, it is likely that the test I want to run depends on two or more of the files I have been working on. I then need to upload those linked files and it quite often happens that I will find a syntax error that needs correcting - after I have made that correction it would help to know which files have been changed and not uploaded.

As I have pointed out in a previous post, I believe the system has a way of knowing this because there is a log made when a file is transferred. Could we not have aswitch which shows the tab of a file in, say, a different colour or with an exclamation mark in a manner similar to the asterisk that is shown when a file needs saving.

Dreamweaver has something like this - "Compare with remote file" if I recall correctly. You need to right-click on the local file to do this, but it downloads the file, shows the difference between the local file and the remote file in a "Diff" viewer and highlights the lines that have changed. If the files are identical, it tells you, otherwise you can sync it, or download the modified version.

And as an aside, I think colored tabs per-project would be rad!

Thanks for all the hard work dmitri