Dreamweaver FTP continues to hang endlessly when I cancel stalled upload. Also how can I see historical FTP log?

Question

It seems like Dreamweaver handles connection problems very
poorly when I am trying to upload something and the operation
stalls. I'll click "cancel", but the FTP client will never cancel -
I'll just get a few repeated messages like "Operation timed out.
Cancelling...", and I can never get the client to break away from
the operation so I can manually try something else.
Nor can I even close the program. A lot of times I'll have to
manually kill Dreamweaver via Task Manager and restart.
Also is there a way to see a log for anything other than the
most recent FTP operation? Sometimes I want to see what Dreamweaver
has been up to over a longer period, but it only shows the most
recent operation.

Answer 1

Eliot
I was having a FTP problem with Dreamweaver CS4 on my Mac
where some sites would connect and some wouldn't, I just couldn't
solve it. I thought it was my hosting company with corrupt
permissions on their server.
I got on to Adobe technical and luckily they ran me through a
sequence which solved it. It did mean uninstalling the whole of my
CS4 Design Premium and reinstalling under root access.
Here's the process a tech operator gave me, assuming you're
running on a Mac, if not I guess a lot of this could still work on
a PC with a parallel app. Good luck.
I would suggest backing up all of your site information,
then uninstalling Web Premium CS4 using the following steps:
1 Disable Time Machine if you have it running.
2. Navigate to the following folder:
Applications/Utilities/Adobe
Installers
3. Run the uninstaller for Design Premium CS4.
Once the software has been removed, please download and
execute the Adobe CS4 Clean Script. This will remove any remnants
of the CS4
applications on your computer. You can download the script
from the
following location online:
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb406241
After running the Clean Script, please verify that all of the
CS4
applications are no longer present in your Applications
folder.
Next, install Design Premium CS4 in the root user account.
Unless the
operating system is damaged, this should resolve any
permissions issue that might arise installing the software in your
existing user account as the root user has full read/write
privileges. To enable and enter the root user account, please
perform the following steps:
1. From the Finder's Go menu, choose Utilities.
2. Open Directory Utility.
3. Click the lock in the Directory Utility window.
4. Enter an administrator account name and password, then
click OK.
5. Choose Enable Root User from the Edit menu.
6. Enter the root password you wish to use in both the
Password and
Verify fields, then click OK.
Once you have installed the software, please launch one of
the point
products and then update the Design Premium Suite before
logging out of the root user account and disabling it.
At this point you may also enable Time Machine again.
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