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April 11, 2017
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Dreamweaver Crashes since the Latest Update

  • April 11, 2017
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Dreamweaver CC (2017) keeps crashing on Windows 10 upon opening certain files or saving a new file with certain code in it. It started happening since the latest updates were installed (yesterday). After countless crashes, uninstalling, reinstalling, clearing cache, deleting Personal Configuration folder I have narrowed it down to this:

ANY file that has a php tag (<?php) and uses certain meta tags will crash the program as soon as the file is opened (Message: Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017 has stopped working).

Here is the code that causes it:

<?php

  // do nothing

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>

  <title>Test</title>

</head>

<body>

  Lorem ipsum...

</body>

</html>

It's not limited to opening an already existing file with this code. If I paste the above code and try to save, it also crashes Dreamweaver.

Note: I did not encounter this issue before the latest update yesterday, 4/10/17.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any possible solutions? Thanks.

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2 replies

Participating Frequently
April 12, 2017

There is a known crash with DW CC 17.0.2 which gets resolved on system restart. As you are seeing crash since update only then please give it a try. For more details:

Dreamweaver crashes in the latest update (2017.0.2)

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 11, 2017

Did you restart computer after the update?

Try using an HTML5 doc type and save this as a  .php file in your defined local site folder.

<?php

  // do nothing

?>

<!doctype html>

<html lang="en">

<head>

<meta charset="utf-8">

<title>HTML 5 TEST </title>

</head>

<body>

<h3>Heading 3</h3>

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eum error sapiente at dignissimos quasi iusto quaerat aspernatur, perspiciatis distinctio, maiores commodi, amet quia mollitia quos fugit suscipit! Officia, animi, iste</p>

</body>

</html>

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert