Recovering Dreamweaver 3 preference and site info, ultimately migrating to cs5.5 on Windows XP
I had a hard drive failure in windows xp and have reinstalled windows xp and dreamweaver 3. I have a backup of all my dreamweaver 3 files from the old machine, for example &sitename.dws, &sitename Changed.txt, &sitename Live.dws, &sitename Changed.txt. I would like to have all my preferences, ftp info, etc. restored but cannot find any documentation on how to do that in Dreamweaver 3.
I tried replacing the following files with the backup versions:
C:\Progam Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver3\Configuration\SiteCache
C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver3\Configuration\SourceFormat.txt
as these were the only files I saw that appeared to have been modified by using Dreamweaver on the XP machine before the drive failure.
Is there any Dreamweaver 3 documentation about the names of preferences files, site files, and how to replace the default install files with backed up versions?
All help is sincerely appreciated as I have not been able to figure this out on my own. I considered just replacing all the DW install files with my backup, but that would probably mess up the registry and I can't chance that.
Ultimately I will be moving to CS5.5--if I ever get my backed up information into my newly installed Dreamweaver 3, is there a way to migrate those preferences, site info, etc. to CS5.5?
Murray 'ACP', you are correct--DW3 does not have the option to back up to *.ste files, so I believe that pzciena is correct in stating that site information in DW3 is found in the registry and I can't recover that using files from my drive backup. The reason I asked the question is because I am having trouble when using the FTP "Put" function to FTP files over to my website. The "Put" operation creates a subdirectory to the root file on the host.
The host directory is named "web" and I specify /web in my dreamweaver remote host site definition. The "Put" operation creates a subdirectory using the same name as my local files subdirectory. That is, on the local side, the file I am "put"ting is in subdirectory /hostsave and when it FTPs to the remote side, it creates a directory named "hostsave". I deleted that directory on the remote side and tried FTPing a second time and it created the directory again. This does not happen if I use Ipswitch to FTP the file, but I would prefer using the file transfer within dreamweaver since it checks to make sure I'm ftping all the image files in the .html file I'm PUTting.
I obviously have not re-created something correctly in redefining my site. ????
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>I searched the forum with various phrases and only found
one thread which
>was
> answered in 2006, the problem being IE7 Beta 2. However
someone else
> posted
> that they didn't even have IE7 and it was still
happening to them. I have
> IE7,
> but a 'stable' version, and this happens every time for
every site.
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> Any ideas what the problem may be?
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