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palak.canada
palak.canada
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March 5, 2020
Question

Dreamweaver CC freezes and gets super slow

  • March 5, 2020
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Why dreamweaver gets super slow and freezes everything on screen? even for a single letter change I have to wait for 20-30 secs till I can enter next letter.

 

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Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 5, 2020
  • Does your local site folder reside on your primary hard drive and not a networked or cloud drive?
  • Do you save your work often?
  • Do you have energy saving Sleep Mode disabled?
  • Have you disabled all non-essential background processes?
  • Which anti-virus and firewall do you use?

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    palak.canada
    palak.canadaAuthor
    Participant
    March 12, 2020

    Hi Nancy,

    • Yes, on primary hard drive - not on cloud for sure
    • Yes, working on SASS so need to save on every change before compiling
    • Yes, diabled
    • Yes all non-essential are diabled
    • That's the worry, I doubt the firewall a big time. I have excluded DW from it.

     

    Thank you
    Palak

    R
    ragv36966756
    Participant
    March 16, 2020

    I'll be following any advice you're given. I have a similar issue with a DW2020 install which now has the old PHP functions restored (yes!) but it starts ok and within minutes starts lagging until it's unusable, closing and reopening get things back to normal.

     

    Hope any issues get solved, have to say I installed a beta version so it might just be that hopefully.

     

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    Jon Fritz
    Community Expert
    Jon FritzCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 5, 2020

    There could be a number of issues with DW, your code, or conflicts on your machine that could cause lagging like you describe. It's hard to say what it could be without a bit more info...

    What version of DW?
    What operating system?
    How much RAM do you have?
    Any live backup software running on your system?
    Is this happening with every page, and every site, even new blank documents?

      palak.canada
      palak.canadaAuthor
      Participant
      March 5, 2020

      Thanks Jon,

       

      DW version - 20.1
      OS - 64-bit windows (Surface)
      Processor - i7-6600 2.81 GHz
      Ram - 16 GB
      Live backup - No
      Happening on all pages - Yes, even outside DW, screen gets freeze. But it only happens when try to edit/update/change any thing in DW.

      Jon Fritz
      Community Expert
      Jon FritzCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 5, 2020

      If it has worked normally in the past, Restoring Preferences will usually do the trick...
      https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html

       

      If this version has never worked correctly for you, reinstallation using Adobe's Cleaner Tool may do the trick...
      https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

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