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Which Files are Published

When you click "publish," two things happen.

First, CityDesk prepares a copy of your site in a temporary folder on your local hard drive. This temporary folder is deleted when you exit CityDesk.
Then, CityDesk uploads the site to your web server.

To save time, CityDesk doesn't always prepare and upload every single file.

In preparing your site:

If you used the Publish command from the main window, every file will be prepared.
If you used the Save and Publish command in an article, only the current article will be prepared. In this case, all non-articles, that is, HTML files, images, and files of other types are still prepared, but any other articles are ignored, to save time, even if they have changed.

In uploading your site:

CityDesk only uploads files that have changed to the web server. This saves a lot time, especially if your connection to the web server is a slow one. CityDesk knows which files have changed by storing a file called citydesk.xml on your web server indicating which version of each file is already on the web server.
If you wish to upload all files to the web server, you can check the "Publish All Files" option in the Publish dialog box.