Dreamweaver CS5 will not open

oh poo Ive just downloaded the master suite trial to try on my macbook pro.

Its an old macbook pro with only 2gig ram. I just updated to 10.6, it was running on 10.4.11 before

Looks by the sound of things that I should stick with doing it all on a p.c.

Im gonna try it out anyway as at the moment I only really understand Fireworks and Dreamweaver, the rest of the programs I was just being nosey about

I had the same problem but I fixed it.

For the record I am running 10.6.3 on a MacBookPro with the most uptodate version of CS5. I never had FileVault enabled.

I found that when I logged in as new user I was able top open DW. Armed with that information and the process of elimination 5000 I was able to find that the problem for me was with ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5

How I got there:

open terminal.

Test Preferences Folder

sudo mv ~/Library/Preferences ~/Library/Preferences.old

Tried top open DW no go so then I undid what I had done

sudo rm -R ~/Library/Preferences

sudo mv -R ~/Library/Preferences.old ~/Library/Preferences

You have to do this fast otherwise open apps or the finder will recreate the preferences folder.

Test Application Support

sudo mv ~/Library/Application\ Support ~/Library/Application\ Support.old

Tried top open DW and it worked. I found that when I opened DW it created and Adobe folder within Application support. Inside of that it created a few other folders.

I coped the "Adobe" folder to the desktop and then put everything back the way it was:

sudo rm -R ~/Library/Application\ Support

sudo mv -R ~/Library/Application\ Support.old ~/Library/Application\ Support

Again do this fast.

Then I copied the NEW Adobe folder on the desktop to ~/Library/Application\ Support/

friday04 wrote:

Mac OS X 10.6.3

Hey Guys,

I have Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and Adobe CS5 Creative Suite and I tried everything from reinstalling, backing up from Time Machine and permissions and nothing worked. I used the solution above and it worked perfectly.  Just delete your Dreamweaver CS5 folder, regardless if it has anything in it or not. Take the Dreamweaver CS4 folder and duplicate it in the same directory and rename it to Dreamweaver CS5 and it works perfect, no reboot. Takes 10 seconds. Good luck!

I don't know if changing the permissions had anything to do with it before doing this, but I'd try that too, just in case I got lucky. Sorry guys, I know it sucks and I feel your pain.

Jaime

Last login: Sun Oct 17 00:11:43 on ttys000
/Volumes/wd/adobe/Adobe\ Dreamweaver\ CS5/libCocoa.dylib ; exit;
user:~ name$ /Volumes/wd/adobe/Adobe\ Dreamweaver\ CS5/libCocoa.dylib ; exit;
-bash: /Volumes/wd/adobe/Adobe Dreamweaver CS5/libCocoa.dylib: cannot execute binary file
logout

[Process completed]

Simply go into this folder on your MAC /Users/YOUR_USER_ACCOUNT/Library/Application Support/Adobe and rename the Dreamweaver CS5 folder to something like "X-Dreamweaver CS5". this will force Dreamweaver to create a  new Dreamweaver CS5 folder. Voila.

I am exactly having the same problem. I read all the posts and none of them worked. Don't know what to do.

I used the Dreamweaver patch from Adobe and Dreamweaver opened up just fine.

I am using Windows XP. Under a limited user account dreamweaver won't load.

Any ideas?

It does run under the admin account but I need it to run under the limited user account.

I fixed build 11.0.0.4909 of Dreamweaver CS5 by creating a temporary user account with file vault set to off. Dreamweaver CS5 should open in this user account. Now go to Help>Updates . .  and download and install the 11.0.2 patch.

Logging out and then logging in to my primary user account (which has file vault on), Dreamweaver now opens and runs normally. I found I could not run the updater with file vault on, but this workaround enabled me to install the patch described in http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/844/cpsid_84413.html, without disturbing the file vault on my main account.

OS 10.6.4. 

I am havig the same problem with Vista