I just started doing some work on one of my sites and an annoying problem cropped up which I had (thankfully) forgotten all about. Whenever I selected any text at all, regardless of length, language, or any other criteria, in code view Dreamweaver would freeze and XP would prompt me to kill the program. Fortunately this problem seemed to be restricted to one specific include file in one site. Problem now is I have quite a bit of work to do in this file, and I don't fancy using Notepad. I like code colouring, alright?

Renaming the file, copying it, or saving it elsewhere using Notepad did sod all to fix it. There's nothing wrong with the code, because I'm amazing and don't write broken code. Dreamweaver is just being plain balls.

Google to the rescue! Maybe I was being a little bit hopeful with my search for "dreamweaver 9 crash", but I guess luck was on my side today. Result number 2 - Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 crashes when selecting text in code view ...

Swish! A quick read, some quick clicks, and my problem fixed! Here's a short copy and paste of what to do to fix the issue:

The crux of it was deleting the winfilecachexxxxx.dat file - Once doing this, it was plain sailing and hasn't crashed since.

On Windows Xp, the file is at:-

[drive]:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver
9\Configuration

On Windows Vista, you can find it in:-

[drive]:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
or accessible via windows explorer in
Desktop\[username]\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration

My Dreamweaver is back to it's awesome self now, running like sex. Thank you very much Martin Parry for being at the top of Google! I hope you don't mind me ripping off and linking your junk.

Along with everyone else in the web world I have been eagerly anticipating the release of the new Creative Suite from Adobe. Since Adobe aquired Macromedia not so long ago I've been interested to see what would happen to the Macromedia Studio products I had come to know and love. Would Fireworks have gone all Photoshopey? I'd spent a short period of time playing with the Fireworks 9 beta, but hadn't really gotten into it, so didn't have much of an idea of what had changed. But who cares. New software means I'm getting it.

I am slave for shiney new things. I can't help it, it's in my geeky veins. That's just how I roll.

Master Collection: Check.
PC: Check.
Time to kill: Check.

In my world that means it's time to install some software. Adobe disagrees.

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