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Anonymous
May 26, 2012
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Dreamweaver Erased my files

  • May 26, 2012
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Essentially the statement above. I was working on a website in Dreamweaver for a client (one of the few times I even bother with dreamweaver) and everything was going well  and I was working in my CSS document until dreamweaver froze for a second, and then everything was gone. My entire stylesheet, 6 hours of work, gone. So I closed the program and restarted it and it was still gone. Suffice it to say I am absolutely livid at the moment and I would like to know if there is a way to restore a file erased by dreamweaver? Otherwise is there a way to get a refund for this useless excuse for a program?

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    amir PINGGHOST
    Participant
    December 28, 2015

    that happen to me today , last night i save my work and i close DWcs6 and today i found all the file empty it's lot of work i lose all my work . the file size still the same but it's full of 0

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    charlesg91612023
    Participant
    September 19, 2015

    Just had this happen. I save religiously.  My computer overheated and shutoff. When I rebooted my file I was working on was empty. When opened in a text editor, It has a bunch of spaces in it that is all. Day and a half of work gone!!!!!   This is ridiculous, I can't believe you don't have a restore file after crash option on Dreamweaver. You even have a auto-save on this comment box, Come on!  People rely on your product and this can't happen ever and it has been going on for over 3 years. 

    My system. DREAMWEAVER CC 2015. Windows 7

      Subliminal-Lithium
      Subliminal-Lithium
      Participant
      April 19, 2015

      Dreamweaver deletes all sorts of things on mine all the time. It's kind of ridiculous. For awhile I just thought it was me, and I was screwing something up here and there and deleting things without realizing it. That's not the case! I  have yet to see it delete whole files but today, after working for a few hours last night, I was working other bugs out, but upon veiwing the site in my browser, I noticed my link behaviors on my menu weren't working. I used the browser developer tools to check out my HTML, and all the a href html was gone. Checked my html file in notepad....gone, checked it in dreamweaver....gone. Dreamweaver just decided on its own to delete that stuff.  At this point I have gotten so tired of it that I have been pretty much learning to write all the coding by myself without any of this visual crap just because I have no idea if dreamweaver will just selectively delete things.

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      allens94048119
      Participant
      February 17, 2015

      Same issue here Dreamweaver CC, Windows 8.1 power failure. Just lost a file I have been working on day and night for a week.. no backup... beyond furious

      MHagel
      MHagel
      Participant
      December 4, 2014

      "losing an entire file via a freeze event in Dreamweaver."


      this just happened to me. absolutely no reason. I was editing HTML, deleted a link, all of the sudden it deleted much more than the link, then froze and crashed. When I reopened the file, all but 3 lines were deleted (there were thousands before that). I can't view-source either, as that shows there is no longer any HTML... Beyond furious...

      Nancy OShea
      Community Expert
      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 4, 2014

      Sorry for your loss of data.  Do you have a complete copy of that file somewhere -- on your remote server or a backup drive that you can revert to? 

      Nancy O.

      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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      vishal1980
      Participant
      September 16, 2014

      This just happened to me too as well and i lost my 2 days of work.  DWCS5.5 just crashed with error "Close the Program" when I was in middle of writing the code in css file, although i save my files in intervals still i lost all the code except the last line i wrote.

      When i re-opened my css file, it just had that last line and remaining was blank. i even tried to check the viewsource of my already opened html file & my css was blank.

      Now i am left with no choice but to re-code my lost work.

      Wish DW had some way to resolve it.

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      timmyb3
      Participant
      July 25, 2014

      Same thing happened to me, repeatedly. I second the 'have another document with the same css file linked and it fixes it' though. It hasn't happened since I started doing this.

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      cutepraba
      Participant
      May 7, 2014

      I just had the same thing happen to me and lost my 4 hours of work.  DW just crashed when I reopened the file content is blank. I think this some sort of DW FILE LOCK problem because the file size is still 23 kb but no content, it should be 0kb right.  Unable to see anything in notepad, winword,wordpad,notepad++.

      Anyhow I lost my precious time, who else to blame.  This is the fourth time I am having this problem.

      ADOBE find a solution

      My version

      DW6

      Win 7 64 bit

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      abeezny
      Participant
      March 13, 2013

      This just happened to me too.

      Using Dreamweaver CS6 in Windows 7, 64-bit

      I was working on an html page in Dreamweaver and pulled up the css within the file (rather than as a separate tab). I was not using fluid grid layouts.

      I hit F12 to preview a small change, and suddenly got a "Dreamweaver has quit unexpectedly" error. The program closed before I could do anything else.

      I pulled it back up and the entire css file is blank. Just blank. Nothing. I have no idea what happened and need to step away now.

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      Amitpanwar
      Participant
      July 4, 2013

      I have been going through the same problem from last one week. Jumping from browser to DW and files gets erased.

      And today i got a solution for this.

      I open another html file along with the main file on which i am working. And DW is working perfectly. It has not erased any file since last 8 hours.

      I know its a weired solution but its working for me.

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      YalpiCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      July 8, 2013

      Hello,

      We are sorry to know that you are facing problem while previewing document in browser.

      I could not reproduce the file content erase. Following are the steps I followed.

      1. Launch Dreamweaver CS6 or CC

      2. Open a HTML document with a linked CSS document

      3. Perform multiple edits and Save operations in the linked CSS document

      4. Preview in Browser for each edit(Chrome 27.0.1453.116 m)

      5. Switch back to Dreamweaver

      Result: CSS document content is intact and is editable by user as expected.

      Can you please let me know on the following.

      • Steps to reproduce the content loss even if the issue is intermittent.
      • What type of document you were working on before the content loss happened
      • Is the document in saved status or unsaved status(modifications yet to be saved) while switching to a browser.
      • Which browser are you switching to?
      • What is the Dreamweaver build number("Help Menu->About Dreamweaver" on Windows and "Dreamweaver Menu->About Dreamweaver" on Mac)
      • Is this consistently reproducible.

      Regards,

      Yalpi Shiva Prasad

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      gina3five
      Participant
      February 8, 2013

      This just happened to me as well.

      Dreamweaver CS5.5

      Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit

      Luckily, it wasn't a major loss for me, but I don't think I want to use this program anymore. Any ideas what this is about? Updates?

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