Local Folders Won't Stay Collapsed

Question

For one website I'm managing out of many, the local folders
will not
stay collapsed, i.e., the little box you click on to open and
close the
folder directories. It's a minor annoyance but I can't seem
to fix it.
I've looked at the actual folders on the hard drive to see if
there's
anything odd in there and there does not appear to be. I've
also
re-polled the directories for the site and that hasn't
repaired this either.
When I open one of the main folders, all its sub folders
open, too. When
I go, one by one, closing them, I get so far down the list
and they all
pop open again. This only happens with this one folder and
only with
this one website.
Does anyone have an idea?
Thanks,
J
DWMX 6.1

Answer 1

You are on windows?
There are two ways to fix this.
One way- make a new site definition for each of the sites
doing this.
Don't use "duplicate" because that will carry over the
Expanded Directory
information.
Other way- edit the windows Registry.
background:
http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.dreamweaver/search?hl=en&group=mac
romedia.dreamweaver&q=alan+registry+expanded
There's a registry setting in the site def info for what
folders to show
expanded when a site is opened.
alternate probable fix-  make a new site definition from
scratch.
probably way to prevent this from recurring- close the
folders when changing
sites or shutting dw down.
repost of old info- modify the folder location/registry key
name as needed
for the version you are using
Summary of the solution:
It's a registry thing. so do the usual backups !!!
1. Open regedit.
2. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 6\Sites\
*****the above key path will be different depending on the
version of dw you
are using (I've reposted this about every other month since
dw 6 came
out)
3. Select the site number that you're having problems with
(just look in
each one e.g. "-Site3" until you see the site name being
mentioned).
4. Careful here...
Locate the values that begin with "Local Expanded Dir" and
end with a number
(there should be quite a few of 'em) and delete them.
5. Then open the value "Local Expanded Dirs" and using a
'Decimal' base,
change the value to 0 (zero).
6. Quit regedit, and that should solve it...
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/