Disabling Sites

When Contribute starts, it verifies all of the connections defined in the My Connections dialog box and opens a connection to each of the defined web sites. If one or more of the web sites are unavailable for any reason, Contribute is unable to open connections to those web sites. To avoid such problems, you can disable a connection when a web site is unavailable.

Note that if Contribute is unable to connect to a web site, Contribute may automatically disable the connection to that web site.

Another reason to disable a site is that when you have many sites defined, Contribute may run slowly due to maintaining multiple network connections over an extended period. To alleviate such performance problems, you can disable sites that you don’t frequently need to update.

To disable a Contribute web site connection:

1. Choose Edit > My Connections. The My Connections dialog box appears.
2. Select the web site connection you want to disable from the list of connections.
3. Click the Disable button. A dialog box appears informing you that the connection has been disabled. Click OK to verify that this is the connection you want to disable. If you have inadvertently disabled the wrong connection, you can re-enable the connection.
4. Click Close to save your changes and close the My Connections dialog box.

Enabling Sites

If you disable a web site connection, or if Contribute automatically disables it because it can’t connect to the web site, you can later re-enable it. First try clicking "Retry Connection" button in the toolbar. If that doesn't work:

1. Choose Edit > My Connections. The My Connections dialog box appears.
2. Select the web site connection you want to enable from the list of connections. (Disabled connections are marked with a red slash.)
3. Click the Enable button.
4. Click Close to save your changes and close the My Connections dialog box.