Dreamweaver 8 never remembers Site Management information

My version of Dreamweaver 8 never remembers any remote site
username or password information. I have reinstalled from the
licensed box several times. Our company has several websites, and,
without fail, each time I open any of our sites in Dreamweaver 8,
it has completely lost all of the site remote information - this is
true for all of our sites. This is becoming extremely irritating.
Any suggestions........other than reinstalling, yet again?? Also, I
have tried exporting site definitions, but perhaps I am not using
it properly, as when reimporting them, Dreamweaver wants to build
an all-new site.

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> My version of Dreamweaver 8 never remembers any remote
site username or
> password information. I have reinstalled from the
licensed box several
> times.
> Our company has several websites, and, without fail,
each time I open any
> of
> our sites in Dreamweaver 8, it has completely lost all
of the site remote
> information - this is true for all of our sites. This is
becoming
> extremely
> irritating. Any suggestions........other than
reinstalling, yet again??
> Also,
> I have tried exporting site definitions, but perhaps I
am not using it
> properly, as when reimporting them, Dreamweaver wants to
build an all-new
> site.
>

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On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 02:21:38 +0000 (UTC), "wsherwood2"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>1. The dropdown menu for sitenames in the SHOW SITE list
selector no longer
>responds to typing in the first letter of the site and
the list zips to that
>alphabetical point in the list. Previous versions did
this, as is window
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>
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> 2. WHen minimizing the DW main window, using the
click-on-taskbar DW icon, the
>Site manager window is left showing. If the Minimize _
top left window
>standard button (near the X close button) is used, it
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>
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wait, are
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> 3. Often it seems impossible to get the Local Side of
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>
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> 4. After how many revisions of DW since DW2(when there
was discussion and
>"promises" to fulfill these features), there still seems
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filename in the local
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to a particular file or
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the dependencies, it
>seems this is an easy informational list to display. It's
very useful in a
>number of situations, especially as a precursor to moving
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<shrug> Personally I don't see the need for it, but you
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