Problem selecting local root folder in Vista

A friend has run into a Dreamweaver problem I can't find any info about. While defining a site, when he tries to set his local root folder by browsing into and selecting it, the local root folder is set one directory higher than the one he's chosen.
I've searched for info on the issue and can't come up with anything However when asking around I have had a couple additional people report the same issue.
I'm not much of a Windows guy so has anyone else seen this issue/have any suggestions for fixing it?

I have the EXACT same problem. I thought I was crazy - at least I know I'm not alone.
As mentioned, I try to select the folder for my site and it selects the one folder above the previous. Display below shows that issue in DW CS3 part of CS3 Master Collection on Vista Enterprise x86: (-- the arrow is not that good because I'm using school laptop TouchPad)
Display below shows that issue in DW CS4 (by itself) I just installed on my Windows 7 RTM x64Bit:
I probably never came accross the issue before since I use to type out the locations before. Ever since I became "clicky clicky," it's been bugging me.
Do you have any ideas as to what the issue is?
LK

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Problem selecting local root folder in Vista & Windows 7

This is a known problem. It appears that this bug has been introduced into Dreamweaver by Windows 7 and the latest Service Pack for Vista.
This affects Dreamweaver CS4 and earlier. This 'bug' however, does not prevent Dreamweaver from working.
Solution:
1. Type in the correct folder name yourself.
2. Alternatively, select a subfolder, and Dreamweaver will select its parent.
The bug has been fixed in Dreamweaver CS5, but a fix for earlier versions has not been made publicly available.
UPDATE:: See this article for additional details: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/532/cpsid_53267.html

I can't believe Microsoft-bashing is still so much a part of this business. Yes it's a bug and any person of even modest intelligence should be able to understand that if the issue was fixed in CS5 that it is simply Adobe's choice not to have issued a public update for CS4.
A "Community Professional" or whatever they are called, should be well enough versed in the product to know fully well that Dreamweaver CS5 is most certainly nit a "ground up" upgrade by any stretch of the imagination. That said, I have been around Dreamweaver since version 1.0 and the phenomenon of not fixing bugs and updating existing versions is a recent phenomenon. I might also add that this bug affects some of our products and one of Adobe's Dreamweaver engineers was kind enough to make a fix available for our customers. It fixes exactly what we asked to be asked, which is the folder select dialog that we use for our image-handling extensions. It does not affect the folder select dialog for the Site Manager.
Adobe is within its rights to fix the bugs that fit within their development scope and budget. To expect more is nice - but perhaps an actual Adobe employee can jump into this thread as they have in recent others and offer their side of the story.
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Adobe: fix problem selecting local root folder in Vista & Windows 7!

Adobe knows about this problem and is refusing to address it. It may seem small but it creates immense frustration and double-handling issues in productive environments.
Is Adobe just showing a totally arrogant stance toward its loyal users by ignoring their pain, or are they deliberately holding them to ransom to force more upgrades to CS5?
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/478327
Please petition Adobe on this issue.
Adobe: fix this problem!!!

I can't believe Microsoft-bashing is still so much a part of this business. Yes it's a bug and any person of even modest intelligence should be able to understand that if the issue was fixed in CS5 that it is simply Adobe's choice not to have issued a public update for CS4.
A "Community Professional" or whatever they are called, should be well enough versed in the product to know fully well that Dreamweaver CS5 is most certainly nit a "ground up" upgrade by any stretch of the imagination. That said, I have been around Dreamweaver since version 1.0 and the phenomenon of not fixing bugs and updating existing versions is a recent phenomenon. I might also add that this bug affects some of our products and one of Adobe's Dreamweaver engineers was kind enough to make a fix available for our customers. It fixes exactly what we asked to be asked, which is the folder select dialog that we use for our image-handling extensions. It does not affect the folder select dialog for the Site Manager.
Adobe is within its rights to fix the bugs that fit within their development scope and budget. To expect more is nice - but perhaps an actual Adobe employee can jump into this thread as they have in recent others and offer their side of the story.
Al Sparber - PVII
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Local Root Folder - One Level To High ???

Hi,
I'm not sure how to explain this, but I will try.
When I choose a new local root folder when managing a new site, and lets say I made the folders in advance - desktop>website>images, and when I then choose my local root folder, I'm selecting the folder website press open and then save/select, but then it only saves as desktop while it should be desktop>website, it's the same when I choose the default images folder, I select the images folder press open and save/select, and same thing, it will choose desktop>website while it should be desktop>website>images.
So to choose the right folder I have to either go one folder extra deep (if any) or write the folder name myself. I have looked around the settings but nothing seems to have anything to do with this, and my searches on Google didn't bring any results, so I hope one of you would be able to help me.
Thanks
Kim Celinder
PS. I use Dreamweaver CS3, and Vista Home Premium x64

I am also very frustrated! I am running CS4 on Vista and have the same problem.
I am in the process of emailing tech support; so far I have been told to run repair on my system or follow Adobe's tutorial for setting up a root folder. Well... I have already completely re-installed the software (which according to the tech where I work should be better than a repair?)... but I will try that... and I DO know how to set up a root folder so that is not the problem.
I have one other major issue re my CS4... my help files are not there! I am not using upgrade software (which is what I thought could be the problem-as an upgrade may not include some things from the previous edition you have installed on your computer)... Adobe gave me the same suggestion to run repair...
I will respond again if the repair does help.

Moving a folder from one local root folder to another

I've used Dreamweaver CS4 to build my website, and I've become basically familiar with the way it works. Now I'm just starting to build a second site - and I've run into a baffling problem.
I've defined the new site in the normal way, and created the local root folder.
I've got a folder full of image files that is currently sitting in the local root folder of my old site - I'd like to put this into the local root folder of my new site.
This may seem silly, but I can't find a way to move that images folder from one local root folder to the other. I thought it would be a simple drag & drop move, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this. I've moved the images folder to the desktop, from where it should be easy to drag it over the new local root folder icon in Dreamweaver and drop it in - but it doesn't work.
Am I missing something obvious here...?

You should be able to access your entire computer directory structure through the Files Panel in Dreamweaver.
Click the drop down arrow next to the named site (the open site) at the top of the Files Panel and navigate up into the rest of your computer. You can then Ctrl-C (copy) the folder, re-select the name of your site (the green folders at the bottom of the directories, not in the computer structure), and Ctrl-V (paste) the folder where you want it. Contents will of course come with it.
You could (alternately) just copy and paste it working within the computer's directory structure. Paste it into the new root folder and, in Dreamweaver, refresh the view in the Files Panel. The folder should show up fine.
Notice that I have not been drag and dropping, though that should work with the last-mentioned technique.
Beth

Error: The local root folder, ZZZZZZ, does not exist. Please...

Dreamweaver newest - Cloud
Windows 7 Prof 64b SP1
Everyday now upon firing up Dreamweaver I am getting the same error. As long as I worked on this certain site last the day before, dreamweaver of course tries to load that site upon the next startup.
The error: The local root folder, ZZZZZZ, does not exist. Please choose a new local root folder
I have typed the path myself and browsed to it many times. When I go into the Site manager/edit site to correct this, it already has the correct path listed there. If I just leave what is there and hit save, it doesn't work. Once re entering is done it allows me to work on the site again. Connecting to remote/upload files and everything works fine. I can close DW and reopen and all will be fine, for a while.    If I close it and maybe two hours later come back to work on it, DW will report that same error again on startup.
Other editors of the site with same cloud version of DW and same site settings are not having this error. We've combed for differences.
I've deleted the site definition altogether and recreated it. It does not stop the error.
I found some old references to this issue in the old macromedia forums dealing with Mac and spaces or odd characters being an issue in the local folder path. I'm on windows, but the complaints sounded so similar I decided to try a test suggested there. Their suggestion was to create a new blank html file, without saving, add some text, select the text, use the link icon in the properties manager to drag a link out to any file in the files panel. Upon doing so, DW creates a full local path that you can see in your html since you haven't saved the file yet. The suggestors of this test said you should see if your "mac" and DW was having trouble with spaces or odd characters in the path.   Well the following path shows a PIPE character being created in the path by DW on my test page.
file:///W|/private/09 Websites/zzzzzz/index.html
Could this be showing there is some kind of issue that I need to correct? Or is this typical? See the pipe character being listed after the network drive letter of W
Our local root folder path:
W:\private\09 Websites\zzzzzz\
Server Settings:
     Root Directory:
public_html/zzzzzz.com/
     Web URL:
HypertextTransferProtocolCOLON//worldwideweb.zzzzzz.commercial/
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Sudarshan Thiagarajan wrote:
remote
/home/zzzzz/public_html/zzzzz.com
Is this how your remote setting is defined? If it is, do you have a folder called zzzzz.com on your remote server trailing public_html? Ideally public_html is your website root - index.html resides within that, unless your configuration states otherwise.
To come to your actual question of the local root folder, yes, your file manager wont show files if the connection fails. However, accessing it depends on the permissions you have on your network drive. Have you checked that?
I'm not sure why our guy has another folder underneath public_html. My guess is he has some company related hosted test folders for various things under there. I can see a couple other folders under public_html while checking with filezilla. I suppose he just directed our domain to our web folder under public_html.
Again, two others here are using these exact same settings with no root folder errors from DW. We've checked many times and all is the same for them.
Here are some screen grabs of the settings if this makes it more clear.
This last one showing the remote connection address under the files/assets panel is the one that looks strange to me. It shows a home folder / then a folder with our site name / then public_html / then our sitename.com .    Seems convoluted to me. But it works for everyone else so I'm not sure if this error I'm getting has anything to do with these settings or if there is just some old DW settings file hung up in my system that I need to find and delete or what.
Thanks for any ideas.

Error message: local root folder does not exist

Greetings,
I'm working on a MacPro 2x2.66Ghz, running DW from CS2 and
through a strange combination of keyboard keystrokes while cleaning
my keyboard yesterday I inadvertantly renamed my hard drive "-OX"
from it's default. I can't seem to remember what the default name
of my hard drive was, but i think it was simply "Macintosh". I've
renamed it that, but on launching DW for the first time today I got
an error message saying that "The local root folder, web_content,
does not exist" and it gave me the option to manage sites and set
my local root folder again. Is there a way to re-establish my local
root folder for every site that I currently manage in one swipe, or
do I have to go in and manually do this for each and every Site
within my Files panel?
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Pedro

Actually, it solved one issue but seems to have created
another! So, at least now my Sites are all working okay with
respect to a local root folder. But let's say I open an .html file
by double-clicking it in the Files panel. With that file active if
I choose Preview in Browser I get a "File Not Found" error message
from Firefox.... even though it looks like the path to that file is
correct.
One thing I notice about the path in the address bar of
Firefox is that there are 3 forward-slashes after the file: bit at
the beginning of the line.
For example, the page generating the error has this address:
file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/peter/Sites/MySite/web_content/index_vertical.html
If you notice carefully there are 3 slashes at the beginning
of the line. If I go to "Manage Sites" I have the settings set to
"links relative to document" and my root folder and images folder
show the proper locations. What have I done?
The error message also says the following in the details
section: Firefox can't find the file at /Macintosh
HD/Users/peter/Sites/MySite/web_content/index_vertical.html.
so there's a forward-slash before the hard drive.... is that
okay?
Thanks for your ideas!
Pedro

Saving images in local root folder before inserting into website.

I have a completed website and the client has sent me some images and asked me to insert them into the website, but before I do that I know that they have to be saved in the local root folder - what is the easiest way to do this?

I have a completed website and the client has sent me some images and asked me to insert them into the website, but before I do that I know that they have to be saved in the local root folder - what is the easiest way to do this?
If you insert an image on a page in a local site, and if that image is not currently within your local root folder, DW will prompt you to determine if you want to copy that image into your default images folder. In this case you do.
Alternatively, you could just copy the images into any folder within your local root using Explorer/Finder. When you next connect to that site in DW, it will find the images there and you can use them right away.
Murray

Local Root Folder

A "frontpage web" folder in hdd has special sign in windows
exporer(and some default files) , well Local Root Folder in
dreamweaver has the same characteristics ? How I understand in
windows exporer that a folder is a Local Root Folder ?

> well Local Root Folder in dreamweaver has the same
> characteristics ?
No. Only if you make it have that icon using Windows - DW
doesn't
automatically do this for you.
> How I understand in windows exporer that a folder is a
Local
> Root Folder ?
You organize your sites so that they are in some obvious
containing folder
location on your hard drive - like "websites" or something.
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>A "frontpage web" folder in hdd has special sign in
windows exporer(and
>some
> default files) , well Local Root Folder in dreamweaver
has the same
> characteristics ? How I understand in windows exporer
that a folder is a
> Local
> Root Folder ?
>

Cannot select proper root folder for new DW site in DW CS6

Hi,
I'm new to Dreamweaver and am trying to set up a new DW site to do a tutorial.   I am trying to create a new DW site named "Check CS6 Tutorial". The Local site folder defaults to: C:\Users\Pam\Desktop\Unnamed Site 2\ but I don't want that. I browse folders to choose 'c:\dreamweaver' and get the error message:
The root folder you have chosen is the same as the folder for site 'Pam-Test'. This may cause some operations, such as synchronization, to work incorrectly. Proceed anyway?
I keep trying to select the c:\dreamweaver location for my files but keep getting the error message above.

You need to organize your sites in individual folders for DW to function correctly.
Personally, I would create a folder on your desktop called "Websites". Then inside that folder, create another folder called "tutorial site". Set "tutorial site" as your new tutorial site's root folder and put all of the tutorial site's files and folders into it. All of a site's resources need to stay inside that site's root, so all .html, .jpg, .gif, .js, .css, etc.
Any additional sites would then have their own folder created inside the "Websites" folder and that folder would be their site root. All of the files for each individual site needs to stay inside that sites individual root folder. The structure would look like...
Websites
     tutorial site
          all of tutorial site's files
     pam-test
          all pam-test site files
     website 3
          all of website 3's files
     etc...
Here's a video on Defining Sites in DW: GS-01: Defining a new site | Learn Dreamweaver CS5 & CS5.5 | Adobe TV

Problem selecting Locales based on language

Hi All
i am stuck in a problem for which i need your help.
In my application i am able to set the Locales based on the languages
which are either USEnglish or UKEnglish.
Now i need to know the current Locale where the user is present
depending on the above Languages i need to decide whether i want to
dislpay a part of my code in my jsp.
Can anybody let me know how this can be done. i browsed google but could not
find a proper solution to my problem.
If possible a piece of code can be very helpful.
waiting for positive replies from your side.
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Vikeng

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This has got something to do with the fact that I am working on a Mac as it never happened to me in a PC environment.
Nothing's changed with my files and my sites were all perfectly defined just the other day.
Why has it resorted to this message? Why should I have to redefine multiple websites again?
When I researched this online, someone mentioned that the drive name of Mac HD somehow auto-changed to Macintosh HD, and this person reckoned this was what caused the issue.
So, why has this happened and what can I do to resolve without having to redefine? I'd like to get to the bottom of this!
Thank you!

Hi,
I have Leopard and have not upgraded yet. Nothing has changed so I am puzzled by this. I tried the re-naming of the hard drive, but this gives no fix. I even tried removing the space between Mac and HD, but still no luck.
It's strange to me because my path to all my sites goes something like this:
Places --> myname --> My Art & Design Files --> websites --> nameofsite
I've had this set-up since March and have made revisions to multiple websites that are in the websites folder, so I cannot understand what has changed or gone wrong. So I'm not even sure as to how or why the HD comes into play when it comes to the path.
Thank you.

Local root folder question

hello dreamwevaers.
i just started to learn dw,and i all ready bumped into an obstacle.i made a folder giving it a name project site.
and in my files panel,i can see every folder that happens to be on my desktop!what have i done wrong here?
the tutorial im following,the tutor has only the site project viewable in the files panel.but i have as you can see
many folders.
thank you.

hi again
the sites name acualy is project folder.
and the folder is on my desktop.(with the name project folder)
a proper screen shot is here:

Lost local root folder

My website was stored on a usb key which I have lost.
So I created new folders in my documents and am trying to connect to the website to import the folders, but I can't. An ftp error pops up and it cannot make connection to the host.
I am using the same settings as before.
Any help appreciated.

Create a new site definition. Go to Site > New Site.
Tell DW where on your hard drive you want to store your site files. See screenshots.
Servers: Enter your FTP log-in credentials. Root Directory is whatever your hosting provider told you to use. If unsure, check with your host.
Click the Test button. If you cannot connect, click on More Options.
When your Test connection is verified, Save your settings and Export to an .ste file. Store your .ste file in a safe place in case you ever need to restore or transfer your site definition settings to a different computer.
Nancy O.

Strange and fatal file name / root folder problem. Please help!

Hi there. I wonder if anybody could help me!
I am using CS4 but this problem still occurred in CS3. When I
set up a new site in Dreamweaver I go through the usual motions
selecting the local root folder and images folder. Then when I go
into the new site it creates an initial site cache as usual. After
this (when I try to upload anything for example) the cache seems to
have disappeared (i.e. all local files disappear in DW). It tells
me that I should go through setting up the site process again but
this only ends up going round in circles!
Curiously, when I look at my HD in finder, Dreamweaver has
created a new folder named "Macintosh HD" and inside it follows the
exact same file structure as the "real" local files except the
website files do not exist inside the root folder!
I can not understand what is going on here. I suspect it
might be something to do with the locations of files and relative /
absolute linking on the HD?
Please help if you can! Thanks.

What is the NAME of your hard drive? Does it (or any
intermediate folder)
contain unusual characters (apostrophes, parentheses, etc.)?
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"mikrokosmonaut" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Hi there. I wonder if anybody could help me!
>
> I am using CS4 but this problem still occurred in CS3.
When I set up a new
> site in Dreamweaver I go through the usual motions
selecting the local
> root
> folder and images folder. Then when I go into the new
site it creates an
> initial site cache as usual. After this (when I try to
upload anything for
> example) the cache seems to have disappeared (i.e. all
local files
> disappear in
> DW). It tells me that I should go through setting up the
site process
> again but
> this only ends up going round in circles!
>
> Curiously, when I look at my HD in finder, Dreamweaver
has created a new
> folder named "Macintosh HD" and inside it follows the
exact same file
> structure
> as the "real" local files except the website files do
not exist inside the
> root
> folder!
>
> I can not understand what is going on here. I suspect it
might be
> something to
> do with the locations of files and relative / absolute
linking on the HD?
>
> Please help if you can! Thanks.
>

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