Dreamweaver CS3 Crashes At Startup

I installed the CS3 web premium suite and all the programs
worked great, including Dreamweaver. After rebooting the PC the
next morning, Dreamweaver CS3 would not launch anymore. I
reinstalled DW but still the same problem. Startup gets as far as
reading the site cache and then totally disappears. I've tried
renaming/deleting the Configuration and the registry key
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9), and the DW8 site
caches. The other CS3 programs work fine.
What now?

I can open Dreamweaver now but I don't think the problem is
solved. Here's what happened:
I took the steps in the article you referenced and some
others, re-started the pc repeatedly with all start-up programs
disabled, and waited in vain for the promised return phone call
from a seemingly diligent guy in Tech Support. When I called Tech
Support the next day, they said that the case number and customer
ID had no reference to this problem so someone would call back. OK,
fine. I'll wait.
I did a "clean update" of ZoneAlarm, remembering that this
had solved some other problems in the past. Later yesterday, I was
cleaning up some experimental website file directories and renamed
a few of them to make more sense of what they were.
When I tried to re-open Dreamweaver later, it paused to tell
me that it could not find the directory for the site referenced in
the site definition and I should go to Manage Sites to fix it.
Since Dreamweaver had crashed repeatedly before reaching this
stage, this was a major victory. The site it was trying to open was
one that I had set up to experiment with some of the new features
in DW CS3 after the initial installation. Fortunately, it was one
that I had renamed earlier yesterday.
The offending directory contained a page with some of the new
Spry widgets (Tabbed Panel and Accordian) and a short slideshow
that I think I made using Bridge.
So, I was able to open the Manage Sites panel and point
Dreamweaver to another site definition. It opened fine and everyone
lived happily ever after.
Unfortunately, the problem is not solved -- just worked
around by coincidence.
Here is some info from the Windows Control Panel's Event
Viewer about the last time that DW crashed: Faulting application
dreamweaver.exe, version 9.0.0.3481, faulting module msvcr80.dll,
version 8.0.50727.163, fault address 0x000142f1.
Hope ths helps Adobe figure out what is causing this crash.
Now that I can open Dreamweaver CS3 and use it, I'm really
impressed with the upgrade.
Harry

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Dreamweaver CS3 crash on startup

I am using CS3 version 9 Build 3481 on a Mac running the
current OS. It was running fine until the university changed the
location of servers, where my site is. Dreamweaver now crashes on
startup. The 1st message displayed is "An FTP error occurred-
cannot make connection to host". I have to click OKAY, and then
another dialog box appears that says, "Failed to create empty
document". Again, I have to click OKAY and then Dreamweaver shuts
down. I tried deleting the Dreamweaver folder and reinstalling, but
the same thing occurs.
Any advice?

After the university changed the location of servers, did you
update the FTP
settings in your site definition?
"GradEd" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>I am using CS3 version 9 Build 3481 on a Mac running the
current OS. It was
> running fine until the university changed the location
of servers, where
> my
> site is. Dreamweaver now crashes on startup. The 1st
message displayed
> is "An
> FTP error occurred- cannot make connection to host". I
have to click
> OKAY, and
> then another dialog box appears that says, "Failed to
create empty
> document".
> Again, I have to click OKAY and then Dreamweaver shuts
down. I tried
> deleting
> the Dreamweaver folder and reinstalling, but the same
thing occurs.
>
> Any advice?
>

URGENT: Dreamweaver CS3 crashes while uploading any PHP File

Hello,
My Dreamweaver CS3 crashes everytime I try to upload any PHP
file to the Web Server. It does upload the file but crashes and you
received a "Not Responding" error in the Windows title bar. I did
search alot on this issue until I found the ".
Dreamweaver
CS3 crashes after DST ends" problem. I deleted the cache file
as required but of NO HELP.
. It is very annoying to restart Dreamweaver
everytime you want to upload any PHP file to the Web Server after
editing it. It doesn't happen with any other types of files. Please
help me guys here or I will lose my mind.

Bad news for you too.
First, you are not addressing Adobe here in the user forums.
Secondly, Adobe does not support CS3 any longer because it hasn't been sold for years.
Therefore, you're left to the good will of fellow users who volunteer their time here free of charge, if one of them has a solution to your issue. No one is under any obligation to reply, so ask nicely.
One thing I can tell you is that you have not applied any of the versions available for Photoshop. Unfortunately, the Adobe auto updater was an unmitigated piece of cr@p in any version prior to CS6. Do not rely on it to assume you are up to date just because it doesn't show any updates available to you under Help > Updates.
You need to look for the downloads and apply them manually yourself.
I can't offer any more assistance because I don't do Windows. Sorry.

Dreamweaver CS3 crashes HELP!

I'm working on a project in DreamweaverCS3 using Coldfusion
7.0.2.
I have a page that has some drop down menus that are
populated via a coldfusion query. When I click on the
<cfselect> statement line (I need to edit this one value to
fix the page), Dreamweaver CS3 crashes.
I have never seen this before ever. Has anyone else seen this
type of thing with there CS3?
The other thing I completely hate about Dreamweaver is when i
preview an HTML page in a browser window and sometimes when I go
back and forth between the browser and Dreamweaver, I won't be able
to save the file because I get a sharing violation error. So i have
to either wait a few minutes before i can save for some reason or I
have to shut down the browser.
I used to use Homesite and i always, always could preview in
a new browser window, make edits, and refresh the page. Life was
good. This disrupts my workflow and i think Adobe should consider
changing how Dreamweaver handles files in CS4 and hopefully do away
with this bug. Its extremely annoying and slows me down.
What sucks is i spend all of this money on CS3 Web Premium
and now i have to use wordpad to edit this file so i can move
on!

I like to use server-side includes for site wide menus, headers and footers.
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/server_side_includes.asp
Some people like to use DW Templates to create their site pages. If you use a Template.dwt, you can put your site wide menu and other common page elements into it and they will appear on all child pages created from that Template file.
http://www.smartwebby.com/web_site_design/dreamweaver_template.asp#1
DIFFERENCES:
SSI works on the server. Edit one file, upload and you're done. Your hosting provider needs to support the use of includes in either .shtml, .asp or .php pages.
DW Templates only work in Dreamweaver sites. And you must re-publish all child pages after editing your Template.dwt file.
Nancy O.

My Dreamweaver CS3 crashes

For now reason at all, my Dreamweaver CS3 crashes, when I
load the application up.
Its the same error message but repeated for three different
locations:
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Standard, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3,
Share components.
The error message:
Component install failed. The original installation media has
been moved or deleted.
Replace the media at it original location: C:\Documents and
Settings\...\Local Settings\Application
Data\Installer2244\payloadsAdobeExtendScriptToolkit2.0All\AdobeExtendScriptToolkit2.0.2Al l.msi
Is this the reason why my application fails. If so where do I
get this file? Can I just create the folder structure manually?
I don't understand why it CS3 crashes, I was using it fine,
playing around with spry, then I loaded up Fireworks, then
Dreamweaver crashed

Are you trying to re-install the application? This is what
appears is happening from the error messages.
If you aren't doing that then something was corrupted and you
may need to reinstall by first de-activating the software package
via another CS3 application under the Help menu. And then you would
need to run the CS3 clean tool to uninstall and then you would need
to load the media from CS3 to re-install.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html
- This is the link to the CS3 clean script should it be what you
need.

Dreamweaver CS3 Crashes

every once and a while, Dreamweaver CS3 crashes when I select
code either in code view or the split view.
Has anyone else had this problem, or know what might be the
problem?

Check this out:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402776&sliceId=2
Hope it helps.
Tim

Dreamweaver CS3 crashes after Daylight Savings Time ends

In Windows XP x64, Dreamweaver CS3 crashes after
Daylight Savings Time ends. There is a technote that seems to
describe the situation exactly.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402776&sliceId=1
However...
1) The technote says this happens only with ASP and PHP code.
I'm using ColdFusion. (That's a minor point.)
2) The technote says...
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
However, I coudn't find WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat in
Documents and Settings or in Program Files (86)\Adobe. (The 86 is
because this is a 32-bit program on a 64-bit machine, but all the
rest is the same.) I then searched both directories for *.dat and
there was no file that looked anything like
WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat.
.Can anybody help me?
Thanks!

Alan, thanks for the suggestion.
I did the search found the file, deleted it, opened
Dreamweaver CS3, selected the same text -- and it crashed as
before.
THEN I REBOOTED and tried again - NO CRASH. So it seems that
a reboot is an essential part of the fix.
BTW: My situation fit the Technote description exactly. (1)
The crash happened when selecting -- in design or code view --
certain text in a context of HTML intermingled with ColdFusion
code; (2) I had no problem with these files before Daylight Savings
ended; (3) even after that I had no problem with them in Macromedia
Dreamweaver 8 on another machine -- the problem was only on CS3.
So the Technote is correct as far as it goes, but should be
amended as follows:
1) ColdFusion should be included in the types of code that
can be associated with the problem.
2) Instead of deleting WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat, one should
delete WinFileCache-[whatever].dat.
3) A reboot after the deletion may be required.
Anyway, problem solved.
Thank you!

Dreamweaver CS3 Crashes after OS X update 10.6.7

I can't even open Dreamweaver and also Flash after I updated to 10.6.7. Here's the error report and I'm hoping someone can help as I've searched everywhere for a solution.
Process:         Dreamweaver [17044]
Path:            /Applications/Adobe Dreamweaver CS3/Dreamweaver.app/Contents/MacOS/Dreamweaver
Identifier:      com.adobe.dreamweaver-9.0
Version:         ??? (???)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [13063]
Date/Time:       2011-04-06 23:01:44.321 -0700
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869)
Report Version: 6
Interval Since Last Report:          8190 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           4
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   4
Anonymous UUID:                      8D33F440-D718-418F-ADB5-D60102F779E7
Exception Type: EXC_BREAKPOINT (SIGTRAP)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/JavaLaunching.framework/Versions/A/JavaLaunching
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/JavaVM
Reason: image not found
Binary Images:
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe4162b dyld 132.1 (???) <A4F6ADCC-6448-37B4-ED6C-ABB2CD06F448> /usr/lib/dyld
Model: MacPro3,1, BootROM MP31.006C.B05, 8 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 6 GB, SMC 1.25f4
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT, ATI Radeon HD 2600, PCIe, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name

I've had the same issue - it's been caused by the 10.6.7 update breaking Java on OSX. I managed to fix it by re-installing the "Java For Max OS X 10.6 Update 4". You can download it from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1360

DreamWeaver CS3 Crashing in Design View

Hi, Dreamweaver CS3 is crashing when try to view a page in
design view. It happens when I have links to images that are stored
on a web server that is currently unavailable. As soon as the web
server is running again there are no problems. If open the page in
code view, it works fine but as soon as I click on design view it
hangs. Has anyone else come across this problem? Thanks for your
help.

Ah, I see now.
Are you using the Live Data view or is that turned off?
Well, after searching these forums, I have found this KB
article:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb401608&sliceId=2
It is a known issue when using remote files. If you can maybe
the answer right now would be to develop the page with local file
paths and do a search and replace to add in the remote path before
you save the final version. Wish there was a solution, hopefully a
patch will be released soon because the thread I found was back
from April of this year and it only affects Intel Macs.

Dreamweaver CS3 Crashing Instantly

MAC OSX 10.5 Leopard
I am experiencing an incorrect behavior of Dreamweaver CS3
instantly crashing. Here's when it happens.
In Design View... no problems.
In Code View... instant crash of DW CS3 when I attempt to
click on any line that has either meta tags or recordset scripting.
(if I click around parts of the body in code view, no crash).
Since it's so specific as to what I do when it crashes, what
do you think is wrong?

*.ste is the extension that DW uses. BUT - if you have never
EXPORTed the
site defintions from within DW, you will not find any of
these.
Here is a post from Sonjay, which I found by searching this
forum for "Mac
site definition" -
On the backup of the old drive, look in this directory:
/Users/you/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/9/Sites
And find the file named "Site Prefs"
Copy that file into the same location on your new drive.
The site definitions are defined in this file using from the
name of your
hard drive, e.g.,
"MyHardDrive:Users:Myusername:SiteDirectoryName"
If the name of your hard drive is different from the old one,
you'll need to
open that file in a text editor (NOT Dreamweaver -- something
like TextMate
or BBEdit) and do a global find-and-replace to replace the
name of your old
hard drive with the name of your new one in all the site
definitions. Save
and close.
Relaunch Dreamweaver.
You're done.
Sonjay
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>
quote:
> They are *.ste files, and they are stored where you put
them when you
> exported them.
>
>
> In Leopard, there is an awesome new utility that backs
up your computer
> automatically, just "plug and play" like all Mac things
that are
> great.
>
> I just needed to know what type of file it was I was
looking for. When I
> go
> back and look at my various stages of backup, I can then
pluck the file
> out of
> wherever it is.
>
> .ste (that's the Mac extension?)
>
> Thanks for the help.
>

Photoshop CS3 crashes on startup running snow leopard

I am running Photoshop CS3 on iMac with OS x 10.6.8. Photoshop crashes on startup or if it does start crashes when I try to perform a task. Startup crash gives error code -600

John Joslin wrote:
You should be able to remove the drivers in Device Manager – or just uninstall the Dell all-in-one.
You can also disable the TWAIN plug-in by putting a tilde in front of its name.
Fantastic! Puting the tilde on the front of the twain plug-in has sorted it. At least it's working until I can get the drivers off. I tried disabling the drivers, no luck, tried removing from device manager, still no luck. Thats something I'll need to sift through the Dell forums for.
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Dreamweaver CS6 Crashing On Startup

Been trying to solve this problem for a while now. I just purchased Dw CS6 via the Design and Web Premium package and it continually crashes on startup w/ 32-Bit Windows 7 Enterprise. The Application Logs read:
Faulting application name: Dreamweaver.exe, version: 12.0.0.5808, time stamp: 0x4f7617ae
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18205, time stamp: 0x51db96c5
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x000c385b
Faulting process id: 0x104c4
Faulting application start time: 0x01ced71051ba3956
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tds89 wrote:
You are right, thank you! Under my guest profile it loads up just fine? How do I fix my profile issue?
OK thanks for posting back. Now try the instructions given here:
<http://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver-cs4-cs5.html>
Post back if not successful.
G/L

CS3 Crash on Startup

Hi there,
I've been running Photoshop CS3 Extended on my PC for 3 years and never had any problems. About a month ago I was having some issues with Flash video playing (both in IE and Firefox) and made some edits to my PC to try to fix it. These included reinstalling Flash and my browsers, though ultimately I traced the problem to Adaware (which I've uninstalled) which I had forgotten was even installed. Sometime later -- maybe a week -- I went to edit something in PS and it crashed on start up.
When PS crashes, it launches and doesn't even make it to the splash screen -- it crashes immediately with the message that PS has encountered a problem and needs to close. There's only a few seconds from when it starts to when it crashes.
I initially tried using system restore, and had a lot of problems getting it to restore to an early enough point. I then tried repairing the program by putting the original disc in, but I discovered at that point that I was unable to access Photoshop at all -- clicking on Remove/Edit in Add/Remove Programs just made my PC hang for a minute then nothing would happen. After a great deal of fiddling around, I finally got to a very early restore point. This did not fix the problem, but it did allow me to uninstall PS. I've since uninstalled and reinstalled a couple of times, with no success.
After reading some forum threads about similar issues I tried deleting out all my non-system fonts, but that did not help either.
I've also checked all my drivers and everything is up to date. Aside from Flash, there's been nothing new installed on my PC since before the problem.
I'm hoping someone here might have some insight. If I can supply more technical info, let me know -- I'm not sure what might be useful.
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Here's what the event log says: Faulting application photoshop.exe, version 10.0.1.0, faulting module msvcr80.dll, version 8.0.50727.4053, fault address 0x00014500.
I have not installed 12.0.3 update -- I'm running CS3 and this is listed as an update for CS5.
One thing I neglected to mention initially -- I also have Flash and Dreamweaver CS3, and Illustrator CS2, and all are working fine. Photoshop is the only program I'm having any issues with.
I did a quick search on photoshop msvcr80.dll and came across at least one known issue that Adobe has addressed here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402202.html -- interestingly I do have an intellipoint mouse and the driver installed. I removed the driver and installed the update, but no change.
More searching lead me to this thread, http://forums.adobe.com/thread/377601 which suggests removing all CS3 products and using the Adobe cleaner tool and then reinstalling. Unless you or anyone has a better suggestion, this might be my next step. It sounds like a pain, but less drastic than reinstalling the operating system which I'm extremely relunctant to do.
Thanks much.

InDesign CS3 crashing on startup

Hi
One of our plug-ins is causing InDesign CS3 5.0.3 (release version running on Windows XP) to crash on startup. This is only affecting one customer, on all their PCs, but we can't reproduce it in-house. It happened before, to the same customer and the same plug-in, a few months ago, and we 'fixed' it by reverting from the 5.0.3 SDK to the 5.0.1. However, now the problem has returned.
This isn't much to go on, but can anyone suggest what might be causing this?
Thanks,
Charles

Well, I finally fixed it. It comes down to an issue with Visual Studio: that programs built with it will not necessarily run on a target PC that doesn't have VS. You have to run a Microsoft file called vcredist.exe on the target PC, which provides it with the missing DLLs etc. We knew about that, but it turns out that when we decided to service pack VS2005, we should have downloaded a new version of Microsoft's redistributable program.
Why only this customer was affected remains a mystery. At a guess they have installed some other piece of software that included incompatible versions of some DLLs, and running Microsoft's installer fixed things as a side effect.
The crash I was getting on one of our own PCs a couple of days ago now looks like a completely different bug introduced by my diagnostic code. I'd investigate further except I'm already sick of this problem, and all I need to do is remove the diagnostics.
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Dreamweaver CS3 crashing.

Is anybody else getting problems where Dreamweaver CS3 keeps
crashing
particularly when trying to transfer files from/to a web
server.
I'm running it on Vista Ultimate using WebDAV as the transfer
protocol, is
that makes any difference.
Cheers,
@ndyB

Maybe you could try re-creating the DW user config folder:
How to re-create the Dreamweaver user configuration folder
(CS3 on Windows
XP, Vista)
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401118
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"@ndyB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Is anybody else getting problems where Dreamweaver CS3
keeps crashing
> particularly when trying to transfer files from/to a web
server.
>
> I'm running it on Vista Ultimate using WebDAV as the
transfer protocol, is
> that makes any difference.
>
> Cheers,
>
> @ndyB
>
>

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