Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 crashes when selecting text in code view
Another one of those funnies... Only recently Adobe dream weaver CS3 started crashing when I was selecting text in code view. For example, the code below, if I tried to select the whole CFIF block, then immediately a Vista error message appeared saying dreamweaver had crashed.
<cfif isdefined("attributes.endDate")>
<cftry>
<cfset attributes.startDate = dateformat(attributes.startDate, "dd mmm yy")>
<cfcatch type="Any">
<cfset tx = structDelete(attributes, "startDate")>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
<cftry>
<cfset attributes.endDate = dateformat(attributes.endDate, "dd mmm yy")>
<cfcatch type="Any">
<cfset tx = structDelete(attributes, "endDate")>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
</cfif>
Not ideal since the vast majority of developing code involves copying and pasting blocks of text.
After some investigation, I found the following thread which helped immensely:-
The crux of it was deleting the winfilecachexxxxx.dat file - Once doing this, it was plain sailing and hasn't crashed since.
On Windows Xp, the file is at:-
[drive]:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver
9\Configuration
On Windows Vista, you can find it in:-
[drive]:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
or accessible via windows explorer in
Desktop\[username]\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
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Many thanks.
thank you for solution and making us save time.
How adobe can STILL not have a fix for this is a borderline disgrace on their part. I wasted the better part of Monday troubleshooting this before I found your site today.
an hour. I would love to know who is responsible for not fixing this so I could
put their balls in a vice and slowly shut it closed.... grrrr!
Thanks a ton for your post.
I was becoming increasing frustrated everytime I tried to edit a form containing php code - no warning + crash and no chance to save the files.
I had resorted to editing *problem* areas in external code editors and this simple 30sec fix has saved me hours of frustration.
THANK YOU!
:))
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/494811
Brilliant!
If you need to do that too, I advise you to rename the old dir as a backup so that you can replace some necessary files or folders to get your old custom configuration back (preferences, shortcuts, snippets etc.) otherwise you'd lose a lot of time to reconfigure it.