Just a quick post to let you know about a fix to a problem that has been dogging me for the past couple of weeks with the normally rock solid Dreamweaver CS3. I’m on the PC side, so Mac folks, this may not apply to you.
I’m doing some WordPress development right now using the excellent Thesis framework and my workflow is streamlined by using a combination of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Photoshop in conjunction with the WordPress Dashboard and the cool Dashboard panels that Thesis makes available.
Lately, however, Dreamweaver has taken to inexplicably locking up; freezing the interface and showing ‘Not Responding’ when I continue to try to interact with it. This has just been happening recently, like within the past 3 weeks or so. Before then, Dreamweaver never gave me any problems.
I did some poking around and evidently there’s a situation when you’re editing PHP or ASP files in Code view where Dreamweaver will lock up. But this only happens just after the time change to DST ends. Evidently it’s also when it starts. The Adobe KB Technote is kb402776.
The solution is to shut down Dreamweaver, if it’s running, find the file: WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat, (which is corrupted somehow during the time change, of all things), and delete it. The file will usually be found in: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application\Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration for Win XP, or C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration for Vista.
Restart Dreamweaver and it will automatically recreate a fresh version of that file for you. I did that and Dreamweaver went back to being rock solid again.
Another vexing problem tracked down and subjugated! Now back to work!
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