Crash! Dreamweaver CS3 doesn't love me anymore.

Question

Here's how it first happened.
1. Using the file menu I copied and renamed an HTML file.
2. Dreamweaver asked if I wanted to check the links. Knowing
that this was a new file I said no.
3. I then double clicked on the file to open the HTML file.
Dreamweaver completely disappeared from my screen. I tried to
open Dreamweaver again. It started to load, I could tell from the
dialog box that it was trying to build the site cache and look at
the links. Then it just crashed again. At this point I was unable
to do anything, Dreamweaver would try to load that site profile and
just crash.
I've seen this before on older version of Dreamweaver (e.g.
MX 2004). So I went into the application data for my Windows
profile and deleted the Dreamweaver 9 folder (I had show hidden
files turned on). I then tried to start up Dreamweaver again. No
good. It tried to load the site cache and then crashed.
So I went to the forums and found an explanation of how to
remove the reference from Windows registry. I went under RUN typed
"regedit" went under the tree for the current user, backed up the
tree for Dreamweaver 9 and then deleted that tree. With the
application data also removed I tried to load Dreamweaver again.
This time Dreamweaver asked me to specify my preferences for file
types etc. It then tried to load the site that I was working on
choked on the freaking cache and died.
I spent the next hour trying various combinations restarting
my machine. At one point I moved the local location of the Web site
that I was working on. This gave me an opportunity to work on other
sites, as Dreamweaver was no longer choking on the site cache
(because it was unable to find the site). But the moment that I go
back to the other site and try to open up an HTML file it
Dreamweaver dies.
So I decided to reinstall CS3. It took a while but I finally
got it removed and reinstalled. No change.
So this is what I've tried thus far:
- Removed application data
- Removed registry data
- Removed "_notes" folder from the Web project
- Reinstalled Dreamweaver and CS3
Since I'm able to work on other Web sites I have to think
that maybe the problem is in my code. I think there's something in
either my HTML, CSS or includes that's killing Dreamweaver. But
I've used the same techniques for many other Web sites with no
problem. I am using some CSS hacks, Jquery, and I'm also using
virtual includes for HTML. But I can't see why this would crash
Dreamweaver. Here's a URL with an example of the page that I was
working on:
Example
1,
Example
2
I'm at the point where I'm ready to go back to Dreamweaver MX
2004, which really rubs me wrong because it's not like CS3 is
cheap. Anyone have some thoughts on what I could be doing
differently?

Answer 1

I recommend you contact Adobe directly and use one of your
one-on-one
support incidents.
http://www.adobe.com/support/programs/dreamweaver/index.html?tab:contact=1
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"strayhand" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Here's how it first happened.
>
> 1. Using the file menu I copied and renamed an HTML
file.
> 2. Dreamweaver asked if I wanted to check the links.
Knowing that this was
> a
> new file I said no.
> 3. I then double clicked on the file to open the HTML
file.
>
> Dreamweaver completely disappeared from my screen. I
tried to open
> Dreamweaver
> again. It started to load, I could tell from the dialog
box that it was
> trying
> to build the site cache and look at the links. Then it
just crashed again.
> At
> this point I was unable to do anything, Dreamweaver
would try to load that
> site
> profile and just crash.
>
> I've seen this before on older version of Dreamweaver
(e.g. MX 2004). So I
> went into the application data for my Windows profile
and deleted the
> Dreamweaver 9 folder (I had show hidden files turned
on). I then tried to
> start
> up Dreamweaver again. No good. It tried to load the site
cache and then
> crashed.
>
> So I went to the forums and found an explanation of how
to remove the
> reference from Windows registry. I went under RUN typed
"regedit" went
> under
> the tree for the current user, backed up the tree for
Dreamweaver 9 and
> then
> deleted that tree. With the application data also
removed I tried to load
> Dreamweaver again. This time Dreamweaver asked me to
specify my
> preferences for
> file types etc. It then tried to load the site that I
was working on
> choked on
> the freaking cache and died.
>
> I spent the next hour trying various combinations
restarting my machine.
> At
> one point I moved the local location of the Web site
that I was working
> on.
> This gave me an opportunity to work on other sites, as
Dreamweaver was no
> longer choking on the site cache (because it was unable
to find the site).
> But
> the moment that I go back to the other site and try to
open up an HTML
> file it
> Dreamweaver dies.
>
> So I decided to reinstall CS3. It took a while but I
finally got it
> removed
> and reinstalled. No change.
>
> So this is what I've tried thus far:
>
> - Removed application data
> - Removed registry data
> - Removed "_notes" folder from the Web project
> - Reinstalled Dreamweaver and CS3
>
> Since I'm able to work on other Web sites I have to
think that maybe the
> problem is in my code. I think there's something in
either my HTML, CSS or
> includes that's killing Dreamweaver. But I've used the
same techniques for
> many
> other Web sites with no problem. I am using some CSS
hacks, Jquery, and
> I'm
> also using virtual includes for HTML. But I can't see
why this would crash
> Dreamweaver. Here's a URL with an example of the page
that I was working
> on:
>
http://www.plu.edu/~ucomdev/bookstore/section-results-14.html,
>
http://www.plu.edu/~ucomdev/bookstore/home-14.html
>
> I'm at the point where I'm ready to go back to
Dreamweaver MX 2004, which
> really rubs me wrong because it's not like CS3 is cheap.
Anyone have some
> thoughts on what I could be doing differently?
>