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mikes26367975
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January 18, 2017
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CC 2017: Switching between open file tabs causes dangerous issues.

  • January 18, 2017
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Tabbing between open files causes some really bad things to happen. The first is relatively minor: if the Find/Replace window is open in more than one tab, it will freeze on the current tab after switching to it; meaning, clicking in the "find" textarea will not place the cursor inside of it so I can't type anything. This seems to resolve by switching back to the previous tab then back to the other tab. Fun times.

The more serious issue just occurred when I was selecting all/copying code from one tab and selecting all/pasting said code into another tab. Here's where things got dangerous and I'll do my best to describe. I had 4 tabs open, 2 tabs were files from a production server and the other 2 tabs were files from a development server. Each set was from a separate site in DW. The 2 sets of files had identical corresponding names. The goal was to overwrite the 2 development files with the code from the production files.

After copying the code from one of the production files and pasting to the corresponding development file, I switched to a different file tab to do the same thing to the other 2 files and did so. Then I switched back to the first destination tab to upload it and found the code had been overwritten with the code of the second destination tab so they were identical. I did not mistakenly select all/paste from the clipboard into this tab. Luckily, this was only a development file but this could have happened to the production files and if I didn't catch it, I would have deployed to production code that wouldn't work.

While I'm at it, here are some more gripes: lag when opening any server file from the file window, lost original color coding in new version (yeesh on that one), file window on second monitor: trying to adjust remote server column and local file column widths by dragging the divider won't do anything until i resize the entire window first.

DW CC 2017 9346 Build

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    Correct answer pziecina

    The Dw dev team are aware of problems when working with files that are not on the same drive as Dw, and are investigating the problem.

    Sorry I cannot be of any help.

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    Preran
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    January 19, 2017

    Like pziecina said, the team is investigating this issue for a fix in a future update. Feel free to log your request or upvote an existing request on Adobe Dreamweaver CC: Feature Ideas

    pziecina
    pziecinaCorrect answer
    Legend
    January 18, 2017

    The Dw dev team are aware of problems when working with files that are not on the same drive as Dw, and are investigating the problem.

    Sorry I cannot be of any help.