All site definitions gone in DW CS4

I'm using CS4 on a Mac running OS10.5.6. I accidentally removed one site, went into Time Machine and recovered it, then next time I started up CS4 ***all*** my sites are gone -- some 30 sites. I still have CS3 running (I have to support others here at work with older versions), so I can go and export some of the sites from CS3, but there are still many sites that were only built in CS4. Any idea on how to get these back? Is there a file I can restore from Time Machine that might contain that? I read the previous posts regarding missing site definitions, but they refer to the PC registry - not a solution for a Mac user. Help! Thanks for any suggestions.

You're a star, David! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Aargh - DW deleted all site definitions

Hi there
I've just installed DW8 without any problems - the whole
process was smooth
and all site definitions were ported across.
I then (as instructed) went on to delete DWMX2004 and 'bang'
suddenly all my
site definitions are gone from DW8 and I'm back to square one
I did do a backup of the DW MX2004 site profiles etc using
the MM-Exporter
tool (just in case) but trying to use this to recreate in DW8
doesn't work
as it says there are loads of files missing which it needs (I
guess from the
DW MX 2004 installation)
Can anyone shed any words of wisdom before I have to go
through and
reconfigure 60 or 70 site definitions?
Thanks
Jos

> I did do a backup of the DW MX2004 site profiles etc
using the MM-Exporter
> tool (just in case) but trying to use this to recreate
in DW8 doesn't work
> as it says there are loads of files missing which it
needs (I guess from
> the DW MX 2004 installation)
What? The exporter works with DMX2004 to DW8. What kind of
errors did you
get? To tell you the truth, I haven't used it since DW began
doing exports
of multiple sites, which works just fine.
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"Jos Medinger" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi there
>
> I've just installed DW8 without any problems - the whole
process was
> smooth and all site definitions were ported across.
>
> I then (as instructed) went on to delete DWMX2004 and
'bang' suddenly all
> my site definitions are gone from DW8 and I'm back to
square one :(
>
> I did do a backup of the DW MX2004 site profiles etc
using the MM-Exporter
> tool (just in case) but trying to use this to recreate
in DW8 doesn't work
> as it says there are loads of files missing which it
needs (I guess from
> the DW MX 2004 installation)
>
> Can anyone shed any words of wisdom before I have to go
through and
> reconfigure 60 or 70 site definitions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jos
>

A way to import all site definitions into CS4 from MX2004?

Is there a way to do this? I have the site definition
registry keys backed up for MX2004. Is there a way to load these
all at once into CS4?
I appreciate any help you can give me!
Stacey

> I need a way to export the .ste files from MX2004 all at
once
MX2004 didn't have this capability.
> Or, is there a way I can use the registry keys to get
the site info. into
> CS4?
I wouldn't try this, as the key ID would be different.
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"stacey.dyer" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Thanks so much for your quick reply. I think I wasn't
clear enough. I
> need a
> way to export the .ste files from MX2004 all at once. I
can only select
> one
> site at a time there.
>
> Or, is there a way I can use the registry keys to get
the site info. into
> CS4?
>
>
> Thanks so much!
>

CS3 quit and lost all site definitions

I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary when Dreamweaver
CS3 suddenly quit. When I relaunched the app, all my site
definitions were gone. Any idea why or how I can get them back?

Had you EXPORTED your site definitions previously? If not,
you may be out
of luck.
It's always a good idea to keep a backup of your site
definitions by
EXPORTing them from Site Manager to cover you for just this
kind of thing.
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>i am on a macbook pro running 10.5.4
>
> i actually wrote the wrong thing earlier... it wasn't
dreamweaver that
> crashed, it was the whole computer... got that gray
screen that says i
> should
> hold down the power button for a few seconds.
>

Site Definitions Gone

Hello All,
I launched DW CS3 today and my site definitions have all disappeared. They were their last week and for months before that, but when I launched today, all of them are gone. I haven't done any updates to my machine recently that would have effected this as far as i know.
1. What could have happened?
2. How can I get DW to see my preferences or what ever it needs to "re-connect" to my site definitons. I'm running Mac OS 10.5.6 on a new'ish 24" imac.
Any and all help is really appreciated since I have pretty much all my connections data in the site definitions.
Thanks!
Steven O'

1. Crash happens. Backup regularly.
2. Reload from backup. See step 1

Where have my site definitions gone?

I launched Dreamweaver CS5 today, only to find that none of my 30+ sites were available in my Site Management window, and I don't know why. The only clue I have is that a couple weeks back, I updated all of my Adobe programs, for the first time in a month or two. Dreamweaver was among them, as I remember it specifically.
Since that update, I hadn't launched DW until today, only to find my sites missing.
I've found a few posts about something similar to this, and have attempted their solutions. These include verifying/repairing my keychain, and replacing my Site Prefs file (user>library>application support>adobe>common>10>sites) from a Time Machine backup. Neither of these worked.
I have months of solid backups through Time Machine, at this point I just don't know what I need to restore though. Does anyone have any insight or suggestions to how to remedy this problem? It will be a major inconvenience to have to setup all these site again.
PS. Note that all my site files are secure, I have only lost the site definitions in Dreamweaver.
Thanks in advance for any help on this matter.

I launched Dreamweaver CS5 today, only to find that none of my 30+ sites were available in my Site Management window, and I don't know why.
Nobody does! This is an intermittent (luckily rare) problem that DW has had for years. THe solution of course is to keep a full backup of your site definitions using the Site Manager's EXPORT function.
Anyhow, on a Mac, your site and site prefs are saved here -
/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Common/11/Sites

Lost Site Definitions

Hi All,
Using Dreamweaver CS3 & Mac OS 10.4.11, so no Time Machine
Opened DW this morning and ALL site definitions gone. Have some of them backed up to .ste so can recover them easily, only about 25% though.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Niall

Aquaweb_IRL wrote:
Any ideas?
Yes, check the Dreamweaver FAQ. You'll be surprised what you can find in there. You're in luck because you're on a Mac. Windows users who fail to export their site definitions won't be so fortunate.

Site Definition losing FTP User ID and Password

My configuration:
iMac 2.4 GHz Intel C2D
10.6.1 Snow Leopard
DW v10 (Build 4117)
Not sure if my issue is related to the one described in this thread.
I recently performed a clean install of Snow Leopard and DW. Afterwards I imported my site definitions and everything was fine. On quiting and then re-opening DW the FTP User ID and (optionally Password) in the site sefinition(s) have disappeared. I re-entered them and am able to connect to my site(s) via FTP, but again on closing and re-opening DW the information has disappeared again.
What I've done;
- deleted and re-configured all Site Definitions several times.
- deleted the ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS4/en_US/Configuration/ folder
but still the problem persists.
Not sure if this a Snow Leopard/DW incompatibility issue, but I do recall this happening maybe once or twice with Leopard.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

I beleive this happens if:
- you are using a trial version
- you don't enter your keychain password to record this information
I lost my kechain passwordon my mac,and i have to reenter password and FTP info everytime. Very frustrating util I can find the time to figure out how to reset my Mac keychain password.

Preview versus Real View Not the Same, Site Definition Errors - Dreamweaver CS4

I am having trouble working on sites where it seems that Dreamweaver wants me to specify different file locations for various "includes" depending on whether I want to view the site as a preview (F12) vs. on a local test server vs. on the real website server. Note I am using Dreamweaver CS4 (ver. 10) on Windows, my local test server is Apache running via an Xampp installation on Windows, and my production server is also Apache, running at Hostgator. I am building a fairly basic html site using SSI via SHTML files, rather than PHP or a more sophisticated method. Here is what seems to be happening:
1. In my index.shtml file I call, for example, a subheader file called "header-nosub-menu.inc.htm." I have my site definitions set to "relative to document root." Using the insert -> SSI command, Dreamweaver links to the file with the following: My first problem is that, as specified, the subheader.menu.inc.htm file is not found and the preview gives me an error. I get the same error if i try to display the file on my local test server (http://localhost/domainname). However, if I upload the file to my production server, it seems to work fine. If I change the include command to: #include virtual="./includes/subheader.menu.inc.htm," by manually inserting the "./" to change the directory reference, then the file seems to work in all three situations Which is the correct directory specification, and why is Dreamweaver not generating it automatically?
While I can make the manual changes in the directory specifications, I am concerned that if Dreamweaver is making an error in this instance, it may generate more serious problems that are harder to find later.
2. The second issue seems to involve the Site Definition file configuration.I get an error message when I set up my site definition in what seems to be the correct way, specifically, using the following specifications:
Local Root folder: "C:\htdocs\domainname-dev\"
http address: "http://www.domainname/"
testing server folder: "C:\htdocs\domainname-dev"
url prefix: "http://localhost/domainname-dev"
The error message is: "The site url prefix for the testing server does not match the site url prefix specified in the http address for the site."
However, when I change the testing server url prefix to one that does not yield an error message ("http://localhost") I then have problems with the preview (F12) display. Specifically, instead of a preview request generating the following url: "http://localhost/domainname-dev/TMPm393xnclqu.shtml" I find that it generates the following: "http://localhost/TMPm393xnclqu.shtml" The so called incorrect definition seems to be the correct one, but why is Dreamweaver not recognizing it as such? Am I making a error somewhere else in my configuration?
I would appreciate any assistance that anyone here can provide,
Thanks,
http://localhost/

except for the Apache virtual host configuration, which I do not see a need for
I wasn't suggesting that you use virtual hosts (although I have defined about 50 virtual hosts on my own development machine). I was trying to understand the url you listed:
http://www.domainname/
Without a virtual host definition, that would have no meaning and could not point to anything, unless you simply were leaving off the TLD in the example. (.com, .net, etc)
I often use the PHP $_SERVER superglobal to define paths and handle differences between the development environment and the remote server environment. Examples:
DOCUMENT_ROOT: D:/ZendServer/Apache2/htdocs/website/ranch (machine path)
REQUEST_URI: /topic/calendar (url parameters)
SCRIPT_NAME: index.php
HTTP_REFERER: (the url of the script preceding the current script)
HTTP_HOST: (this is the domain name. It is very useful for distinguishing between the local and remote environments)
COMPLETE EXAMPLE:
echo "<p><a class='noPrint' href='".$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']."'>RETURN TO PREVIOUS PAGE</a></p>";

Site Definitions CS4 v. CS6

I just switched to DW CS6 from CS4. When I defined a Site in CS4, it created an actual folder with my site name that I could see on my hard drive, and my various website files would be in there. CS6 isn't doing that-- although it shows a folder icon that is visible inside of Dreamweaver. I look for it outside of Dreamweaver, and it's not there. This spooks me a little bit. Is this how it works now, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks!

Hey Nancy-- After I responded to your post last night, I started thinking more about your response-- did I export the site definitions? Ah. The short answer is no, I just copied the files when I got my new computer, and reinstalled DW CS4. I still have access to my old computer tho, and my plan is to export the site defs and put them on the new one, where I guess I will then have to them "import" them back.
Switching to CS6 caused a bit of misdirection. (As Murray suggested, the DW version was not the issue.) But the light finally went on! Thanx!

Site definition window gone?

After upgrading to Lion my site definition window is gone for the website that I created (darhosta.com). Does anyone know how to get it back? Do I create a new site or do something else?
I wish I would have never upgraded to Lion. To many problems!
Thanks, Lou Hosta

I figured it out. I just had to plug in the url, password, ftp site, etc.

Site definition settings on FTP use in Dreamweaver CS4

I work on a MackBook Pro, Mavericks OS, with Dreamweaver CS4. In filling in my settings in Site Definition dialog for local site and remote site, sometimes doing a Test I get the message that I am connected, but when I try to upload through Put arrow in Files Window I get the message "FTP error occurred cannot make connection to host. Your login or password is incorrect. Check your connection information."
I do get the FTP transfer to work sometimes, but then it stops working. I have used a template to set up my pages. Could my settings using the template have something to do with it?

I have used a template to set up my pages. Could my settings using the template have something to do with it?
Definitely not.

All sites in "Manage Sites" are gone

I just logged onto DW this morning, and attempted to pull up a site when I noticed that all of my sites were missing...as though I had installed DW for the first time ever. WTF? Is there a way to retrive them, or do I need to recreate each one again?
This upgrade has been terrible so far.
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Thx,
Jake

This upgrade has been terrible so far.
Which upgrade? Were the sites there at first? Have you tried restarting your system? Did you by any chance EXPORT your site definitions to protect yourself from this? What platform are you on - PC or Mac? How many sites are we talking about here?

How can I change remote site definition without breaking all of the links?

I've created a website and put it here http://home.comcast.net/~alpsf/index.html to test it during construction. Now when I change the remote site definition on the local site in DW, all of the links are broken. I now suspect the problem is that I made it site root-relative, and DW inserted /~alpsf/ in all of the links. Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks very much.

You can do a find and replace to change the links globally. Make sure you do a complete backup of the site prior to doing this incase you don't do it correctly. Let me stress that again, backup your entire site incase you need to restore. If you have created a "new site" and this will not be part of the /~alpsf site, then you will need to define a new site and copy all the files into that folder (I am guessing this is the case). I would copy the files outside of Dreamweaver. You could do this without touching the files in the ~alpsf directory. There are a lot of variable here as I don't know exactly what you are doing.
On the file menu select window/results-select search. (this is done if the search window is not open).
Find in: Entire Current Local Site
Search: Source Code
Find: "/~alpsf/
Replace:"/
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Jim
Edited:You might have to go into your css, spry files and any others that has links to do the same (this time only select Find in: Current document once the document is open). Once that is done, delete the whole remote site and upload the changes once you check that everything is completed.

Dreamweaver CS4 Site-Definition

Wenn ich in der Site-Definition einen Ordner auswählen will, wird immer der übergeordnete Ordner ausgewählt. Ich muss also immer einen (sinnlosen) Unterordner anlegen und diesen auswählen, damit der gewünschte Ordner ausgewählt wird. Früher hat das super geklappt, erst seit ich einen neuen PC mit windows7 habe, ist dieses Problem. Zusammenhang mit neuem PC oder windows7? Am Screenshot sieht man, dass oben bei Auswählen: der (gewünschte) Ordner wunschordner ausgewählt ist, unten aber bei Auswählen: der nicht gewünschte Überordner v4. Wenn man jetzt auf Auswählen klickt, wird leider v4 als Stammordner festgelegt.

Keinen Plan. Könnte durchaus eines dieser kleinen Kompatibilitätsprobleme sein...
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