Design View - Slow

Greetings,
I am running XP SP2, fully patched. Intel Core Duo with 2 GB
Ram.
I am running Dreamweaver MX ver 6.1 (ran updater to go from 6
to 6.1).
What I have noticed is that as I add to and modify a page,
Dreamweaver slows down.
Also, there is not a lot of pics on the page, but there are
quite a few links. It gets to
a point where it takes a minute or so to open the page in
design view. Click to insert
and type something and it takes 10 to 15 seconds to show up.
The page really is
quite unremarkable and I have tried several things to fix it.
I tried copying the contents to
another file, but the other file has the same problem. I have
this problem on another website
I handle and its on a recipe page. No photo's but lots of
links.
This is driving me nuts, and I would appreciate any ideas
(No, purchasing the newest
version of Dreamweaver is not an option right now).
BTW, open the file in code view and it is quite snappy.
thanks in advance.

Darryl,
Much better. Not only does it load faster in DW, but it loads
faster in
the browser, too!
There is still a lot of unnecessary whitespace in the file.
If the page
is too big to apply source formatting to the whole thing, you
can select
sections and "Apply Source Formatting to Selection". Or maybe
use
find/replace and replace 10 spaces with 1 with "Replace All"
several times.
HTH,
Randy
ksu_kat2 wrote:
> Thanks for the help. I have solved the problem. Here is
what I tried:
> 1. Added missing structure tags
(<html></html> , etc).
> 2. Tried the commands -> Apply Source formatting.
Dreamweaver went "Not
> responding" on me. Let it go for half and hour, but no
joy. Quit Dreamweaver.
> 3. Opened the html file in my favorite text editor. Boy
was there a ton of
> junk in this file. No wonder Dreamweaver went bonkers.
Yes, I am using the
> font tags (soon to change. Bought a CSS book). It had
things like <font
> size="4"><font size="4">, but it would have
like 50 of them in a row. Later in
> the code, it would have like 100 </font>
statements in a row. Pure garbage.
> Removed all the junk code and saved the file.
> 4. Started Dreamweaver and opened the html file in
question. Boom, it was
> fast again. Only had to make one correction (deleted
something while editing
> the html file outside of dreamweaver).
>
> thanks for the help. Don't know how dreamweaver screwed
up the source file so
> bad. But I sure know how to fix it now.
>
> -Darryl
>

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