Dreamweaver CS3 (Mac) performance issues

I am running DW CS3 on a MacbookPro 2.16/ 2Gb Mac OS X
10.4.10.
It is slow to respond to mouse actions (constantly hitting
the wrong button as a result), constantly hangs (but comes back to
life eventually), is sometimes slow to type, renders faint dotted
lines across pages (built in MX2004 with CSS) and is generally
CRAP!
It runs slower than MX2004 on the same machine. I have both
versions installed on the machine (but don't run them at the same
time!). I have similar issues with Conribute CS3 not responding as
well.
Please offer some assistance before I throw my computer
across the room! Why is it so fsat on a PC, is something to do with
the way the Mac does Java? Help - i don't want to get rid of my Mac
for a PC!

Hi. I am experiencing the very same problem. No issues for
years up until recently - but my problems started not long after I
installed the latest upgrade for Mac OS 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 - I am
going to use Time Machine to revert back to 10.5.4 it may not be
the answer, nor a long-term solution but it driving me nuts.
I am currently deleting sites out of my site manager and then
reloading them from the STE file everytime I need to work on them.
I have read that this problem existed in Dreamweaver 8 on Windows,
but an update sorted it out - lets hope an update appears soon to
fix this problem.

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sundap wrote:
> Hey , i am pretty new to PHP and MYSQL. I have a login
page that uses
> Dreamweaver CS3's Log In User built in function.
However, when succesfully
> logged in, I want to create a page that says Hello John,
or Welcome Bob
> according to the user that logs in and have been
unsuccessful so far. I go to
> the correct page but it says Welcome ( Blank Space)
>
> any thoughts? i tried this
>
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15398&sliceId=2
>
> and that doesnt work for me either.....
What does doesn't work mean?
Once the user has logged in, can you output the MM_Username
session variable to the page (in particular the page that the log
in user behavior has set for a successful log in)? You can do that
by simply selecting it in the Bindings panel and dragging into the
design view then previewing the page (after you've logged in of
course).
Also to get better responses (and more folks looking at it),
you should probably post this in the Dreamweaver Application dev
group:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=12&catid=263&entercat= y
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Hi. I am experiencing the very same problem. No issues for
years up until recently - but my problems started not long after I
installed the latest upgrade for Mac OS 10.5.4 to 10.5.5 - I am
going to use Time Machine to revert back to 10.5.4 it may not be
the answer, nor a long-term solution but it driving me nuts.
I am currently deleting sites out of my site manager and then
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I have read that this problem existed in Dreamweaver 8 on Windows,
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ggeller2012 wrote:
Not a very helpful answer. Anyway CS3 works fine on Windows 7 64-bit. No reason to spend hundreds on the latest and greatest for me.
Well you are trying to sell it to a place where people own later versions of the software. As long as the license is good, you may still qualify for the CS6 upgrade at the full retail price because of Adobe's cross-grade policy whereby you pay the upgrade price to switch your license. Basically you sign a letter of destruction and get the version for the other OS. Ultimately, Adobe is moving to solve that probelm with the cloud which works on both operating systems.
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years up until recently - but my problems started not long after I
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going to use Time Machine to revert back to 10.5.4 it may not be
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>I have Dreamweaver CS3 running on a dual 1.8 Power Mac
with 1.5 gigs of
>RAM,
> and I think it's a dog. It's so much slower at
everything than DW8 that I
> find
> it impractical for daily use?especially for managing a
remote site via
> FTP. It
> seems to work much faster and reliably for my colleagues
on Windows XP on
> newish PCs, however, I'm wondering if what I need is a
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> anyone
> is running Dreamweaver CS3 on a MacBook Pro or Mac Pro
system, I would
> like to
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Hey , i am pretty new to PHP and MYSQL. I have a login page
that uses Dreamweaver CS3's Log In User built in function. However,
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been unsuccessful so far. I go to the correct page but it says
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any thoughts? i tried this
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sundap wrote:
> Hey , i am pretty new to PHP and MYSQL. I have a login
page that uses
> Dreamweaver CS3's Log In User built in function.
However, when succesfully
> logged in, I want to create a page that says Hello John,
or Welcome Bob
> according to the user that logs in and have been
unsuccessful so far. I go to
> the correct page but it says Welcome ( Blank Space)
>
> any thoughts? i tried this
>
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15398&sliceId=2
>
> and that doesnt work for me either.....
What does doesn't work mean?
Once the user has logged in, can you output the MM_Username
session variable to the page (in particular the page that the log
in user behavior has set for a successful log in)? You can do that
by simply selecting it in the Bindings panel and dragging into the
design view then previewing the page (after you've logged in of
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Also to get better responses (and more folks looking at it),
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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid=12&catid=263&entercat= y
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Having an issue seeing some remote images and not sure what settings will fix it. I need to include absoulte references in some situations and I cannot see some of the images in design view.
If I have an htm file in the root of the site and do an absoulte reference to an image in a subfolder (the absolute reference includes the full URL ( eg. http://www.mysite.com/images/image1.jpg) I can see the image in design view just fine. However if I have the htm file in a subfolder and do an absolute reference to an image in another subfolder outside of the subfolder that contains my layout, the image does not display in deign view.
Example:
file1.htm is in subfolder /layouts
image1.jpg is in subfolder /images
I do an absolute refence in the code http://www.mysite.com/images/image1.jpg = Cannot see the image1.jpg in design view
If I move the image into any subfolder with the same subfolder as the htm file, the issues is fixed.
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