Dreamweaver 8 crashes or shuts down on windows 7
5I installed Dreamweaver 8 for its awesome code searching ability and every time I’d navigate to a file the program would shut down. The problem is a conflict between Microsoft Groove and Dreamweaver 8. You’ll have to uninstall one of them. To uninstall Groove, follow these instructions http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907504
“Dreamweaver 8 may crash when it performs file browsing actions on Microsoft Windows Vista. Some examples include:
- Using File > Open to browse the hard drive to open a file.
- Inserting an image and using the file browser to select the image.
- Creating a hyperlink and using the file browser to select the target file.
- Creating a site definition and using the file browser to select the local root folder or remote folder.
Additional reported behavior includes:
- Crash occurs when a file browsing dialog appears.
- Crash occurs when browsing two or more folders away.
- Crash occurs after inserting four images.
- Crash occurs when you leave the file browsing dialog box open for a period of time. “
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Yeah we had a lot of problems with dreamweaver, both MX and CS3, both on XP and Vista – hope your issues get solved. If not try Netbeans or Eclipse!!
Hi
I am running DW8 on a Win7 64b with no problem except that when closing DW8 is stop working (says the Win7 OS) ?
It never crasches – it just RUN and fast I might add?
I didn’t uninstall Grove – But maybe I will if anything shows up. I don’t need grove anyway!
have a great DW day!
Peter
Sounds like you have something corput in your Window User profile.
That was my issue. Go to the Dreamweaver 8 folder in Application Data folder. Delete the Configuration files OR rename the folder. Either way it will recreate the folder again. I would rename it though or backup your SiteCache folder first. Then restart your Dreamweaver.
When you restart Dreamveaver, there’s a search for SiteCache. Click STOP fast. Then it works. This worked great for me.
What a find TheHack, well done. I had tried all the usual path upgrades, but a simple rename the configuration file fixed it for me!
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goto manage sites -> edit selected site -> uncheck enavle cache > OK
that works for me …