Site Definitions Gone

Hello All,
I launched DW CS3 today and my site definitions have all disappeared. They were their last week and for months before that, but when I launched today, all of them are gone. I haven't done any updates to my machine recently that would have effected this as far as i know.
1. What could have happened?
2. How can I get DW to see my preferences or what ever it needs to "re-connect" to my site definitons. I'm running Mac OS 10.5.6 on a new'ish 24" imac.
Any and all help is really appreciated since I have pretty much all my connections data in the site definitions.
Thanks!
Steven O'

1. Crash happens. Backup regularly.
2. Reload from backup. See step 1

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> note of
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three websites.
>
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but can't see
> anything
> in there that may contain this data.
>
> love Kim
>

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<[email protected]> wrote:
>Which brings me to Dreamweaver. I have copied everything
over and
>reinstalled Dreamweaver, but my site definition
information is gone.
>
>Any ideas on how to get that copied over?
The site definition is stored in the Windows system registry.
If you
cannot boot from the old hard drive, you may need to re-enter
the site
information.
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I've just installed DW8 without any problems - the whole
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through and
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>
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> my site definitions are gone from DW8 and I'm back to
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>
> I did do a backup of the DW MX2004 site profiles etc
using the MM-Exporter
> tool (just in case) but trying to use this to recreate
in DW8 doesn't work
> as it says there are loads of files missing which it
needs (I guess from
> the DW MX 2004 installation)
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>
> Thanks
>
> Jos
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would it be and where would it be.
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http://mm-exporter.joexx.de/
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>
> I will check the manual and the help file but would also
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>
> All my files are still in html some with css and some
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>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
>
>
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http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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indeed
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XP. Today I opened
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the Files menu
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pulldown instead
> of
> the 17 sites that used to be there. This is a huge pain
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> will
> need to put in all 17 sites again with passwords and FTP
info. Does
> anyone
> know where site info is stored and if it can be
recovered? and also is
> there
> any way to back up this info? What a pain.
>

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Dreamweaver placed
> two
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> above 3. I have placed all of my site files, including
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> folders
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database directory.
> Dreamweaver placed the connection info in the
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>
> In order to construct my local site to match the remote
site, I created a
> www
> folder on my local site and placed all of my HTML files
and supporting
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>
> From various Adobe Tech Notes I have read, I was led to
believe my FTP
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> directory
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web page on my
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creates a new www
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>
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> Should I use www/ as my FTP host directory or leave it
blank?
> Also, what should my URL prefix be?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>

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