Dreamweaver 8 hangs on opening large files

Question

I have a Windows XP SP2 Dell Computer with 1 Gb RAM, and
everytime I try to open a fairly large PHP file to edit, the
Dreamweaver application hangs or freezes on me. When I open task
manager - the CPU resources being used are split nearly 50/50
between the hung Dreamweaver app, and "System Idle Process" - with
the Memory Usage on the hung Dreamweaver Application gradually
increasing.
Has anyone here experienced anything like this?? And if so,
did you find a solution short of reformating and reinstalling
everything.
I appreciate any and all help and/or suggestions!

Answer 1

I notice the problem with any files over 100 Kb,
unfortunately all of the files that I CAN open without problems,
are all under 10~15Kb. So, in all likelihood I
<u>may</u> be having the same issues with files smaller
than 100Kb, (but larger than 15Kb) as well. I'll try your
suggestions and see what happens.
The funny thing is, these same files open just fine with
Dreamweaver 7 (on a different but <u>identical</u>
machine). I'm thinking it may be time to "rebuild" the computer
that's running Dreamweaver 8. By "rebuild" I mean backup
everything, reformat the harddrive and then reinstall everything
again. I normally try to do that once a year or so - and it's
due....
quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
G Evans,
How large is the file that you are having a problem with?
You may be seeing a combination of problems such as DW being
slow to
open very large files, and DW hanging on some markup that it
does not
recognize.
Try making a copy of your file with a .htm file extension and
see if
that opens to see if the translation of the PHP markup is
causing a problem.
Next, try breaking your file into smaller files to either fix
or isolate
the problem.
Hope this helps,
Randy
> I have a Windows XP SP2 Dell Computer with 1 Gb RAM, and
everytime I try to
> open a fairly large PHP file to edit, the Dreamweaver
application hangs or
> freezes on me. When I open task manager - the CPU
resources being used are
> split nearly 50/50 between the hung Dreamweaver app, and
"System Idle Process"
> - with the Memory Usage on the hung Dreamweaver
Application gradually
> increasing.
>
> Has anyone here experienced anything like this?? And if
so, did you find a
> solution short of reformating and reinstalling
everything.
>
> I appreciate any and all help and/or suggestions!