DW CS3 hangs at 'initializing files' on Mac

Question

I've been evaluating DW/CS3 for Mac for a number of sites
that I run. Once during evaluation, I got into a state where DW
would not start but would instead hang at "initializing files" and
never actually start up. With a largely random of combination of
Tech Article and Web Folklore, I managed to get it started and
continued with the eval.
Ultimately, I decided that the only thing worse than DW was
every thing else, so I purchased it.
Today I went to start up DW again. Same problem - it just
won't start. Failure to launch is bad. Very bad. My copy is still
shrink-wrapped, and I have a little bit left on my 30 day eval so I
could return it if this is just a black hole. Is this something I
can look forward to every couple of days in DW (and if so, is there
a recipe for actually using the program) or should I look toward
getting out from under this program before I break the shrinkrwap
and getting a refund?
Is there some way to get to advanced features like (gasp) the
program starting? Is there some known trigger for this that can be
avoided?
Thanx,
RJL

Answer 1

quote:
Originally posted by:
sean69
I've had continuing problems with DWCS3[9] failing to
start... generally speaking there are 2 causes:
1. DWCS3[9] can't find it's files or site cache
- usually manifests if I delete site files outside DW from a
network drive..
- delete the site cache in question "C:\Documents and
Settings\_your_user_name\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver
9\Configuration\SiteCache" and restart DW
- rename the configuration directory and restart DW
C:\Documents and Settings\_your_user_name\Application
Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration\
-both those will force DW to rebuild the site cache or it's
configuration
2. DWCS3[9] "does something weird with internet"
- I dunno if this is the actual problem, but it seems that DW
"calls home" a fair bit, I noticed that my MSN was not loading
either [after a particularly large number of files were added to
bitorrent]
solution - shutdown bitorrent, or anything else that may be
maxing out your available tcpip connections.
-hope it helps
-sean
Thanks a lot no.1 did it for me.
It took some time but the dreamweaver never hanged(I had
10000+files)
Thanks a lot