Dreamweaver, Spontaneous Crashing

 

 

Nothing worse than an uncooperative program when you’re trying to get a project done. This time it’s Dreamweaver. This is the second time Dreamweaver CS3 crashed within a 30 day period…for totally separate reasons.

Spontaneous Crash #1

About 3 weeks ago, I am working in my PHP file, everything is fine, I’m just working, i type in “if (…” and then all of a sudden, Dreamweaver disappears. “That’s weird…”, I think to my self as I double click the icon to launch it again. It loads fine, so I open up the file I was working on and of course I was not able to save my previous changes before it crashed. I remember what changes I did before it crashed and proceede to type in my code. As I get to the point where the program crashed I continue typing in “if (“, POOF! the program is gone. “What the crap???!!!” Yes it vanished again.

After messing with it for about an hour, trying this and that and the other thing I trieg Googling this. Apparently:

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 crashes when working with certain PHP or ASP files in Code view or Design view after the clock goes back one hour, when Daylight Savings Time ends. The crashes only occur when selecting certain lines in Code view, or selecting certain objects in Design view. The crashes only occur in files that have PHP or ASP code, intermingled with HTML code. The crashes do not occur in Dreamweaver 8 or earlier (Ref. 229536). (Adobe.com)

“Whaat?!” Ok, so the solution is:

The Solution

1. If Dreamweaver is open, quit the application.
2. Delete the WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat file from the Dreamweaver user configuration folder. Note that on Windows, the Application Data and AppData folders are hidden by default, so verify that your Windows Explorer folder options are set to View Hidden Folders. The location of this file is as follows:
   • Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows Vista:
     C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
   • Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows XP:
     C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
3. Restart Dreamweaver.

This worked for me!! Weird but ok, as long as I can get back to my work.

Spontaneous Crash #2

My happiness did not last too long, yesterday it happened again. Same thing…I am just typing along in my CSS file then all of a sudden Dreamweaver vanishes. “A crap!! Not again…”. I go and try launch it again, the loader window opens up and then disappears. “What? Can’t even open it now?!” I try again,…same thing. “Ok, I’ll try to reboot, this could be windows freaking Vista…”. I reboot and try loading Dreamweaver again. Nope…tries to load and disappears.

Ok, Google to the rescue. After digging around on forums and blogs I find something that catches my attention.

One possible reason could be that you have a file that is exactly 8192 bytes or a multiple thereof in the site that you used most recently before the crashes began. (Adobe.com)

Great! What’s next?!

The Solution

The solution is to remove the file from your site, and then start Dreamweaver. If the file is a text file, such as an HTML page or style sheet, just add a few spaces to the text to increase the size. (Adobe.com)

Took me a little bit to comprehend what they are talking about and here’s what I did. Went into the local directory where my websites are and browsed to the file which I last worked on. I moved that file onto the desktop, just to get it out of the site folder and then tried to load Dreamweaver. It loaded perfectly. Next, I opened the file that I moved to the desktop and added “px” to the line that said “margin: 0;” so now it is “margin:0px;”. Then I moved the file back to the site directory and everything is now peachy.

I wonder if these things will keep happening to me? I better get my program updated stat.

Ok, thank you for listening to me gripe about this, hopefully you found your answer, if that’s why you are reading this of course.

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