Copy Existing Website into Dreamweaver

I've got an existing website online, using Filezilla to access my server files. I've tried to import my files into Dreamweaver using the Get function. All appeared to have transfered correctly but I'm getting a "Can't find a valid editor for this extension" anytime I try to open a file.
Is there an additional step I've missed? Should I have downloaded the files differently?
Please let me know the proper way to download server files and set them up in Dreamweaver.
Much Thanks!

Left-Lane wrote:
One of the files I can't open:
/public_html/hoteljobs/app/views/pages/display.ctp
My developer said this is the file containg my homepage.
http://filext.com/file-extension/ctp
Does your developer use BestAddress HTML Editor instead of Dreamweaver? If so, that appears to be a propietary template file.
Or maybe it's a greeting card thing or a ChemDraw template, but I would bet on my first guess.
Mark A. Boyd
Keep-On-Learnin' :-)

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