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Sally_C1
Sally_C1
Inspiring
December 1, 2008
Question

How to backup extensions?

  • December 1, 2008
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My hard drive is failing and Dell is sending me another today. My problem is I have many extensions installed in DW CS3 (on Vista) and can find no way to back them up. Sites, I can backup, but I really don't want to reinstall all those extensions. Is there a way anyone knows of? I've read possibly copying the Configuration folder from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS3\ will work. Has anyone tried this? I'd really like to know before I end up pulling my old drive to put in the new. Thanks.
Sally
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Newsgroup_User
Inspiring
December 2, 2008
Sally,

That's the Application Configuration folder, What you want is the User
Configuration folder which is usually here (on WinXP):

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 10\

That may work, but you are safest re-installing all extensions, so be
sure to also copy all .mxp files.

HTH,
Randy


> My hard drive is failing and Dell is sending me another today. My problem is I
> have many extensions installed in DW CS3 (on Vista) and can find no way to back
> them up. Sites, I can backup, but I really don't want to reinstall all those
> extensions. Is there a way anyone knows of? I've read possibly copying the
> Configuration folder from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS3\ will
> work. Has anyone tried this? I'd really like to know before I end up pulling
> my old drive to put in the new. Thanks.
Sally_C1
Sally_C1Author
Inspiring
December 3, 2008
I was unsuccessful at finding any folder which contained installed extensions, behaviors, etc before I had to pull my old drive. Although looking back on it, I may have just looked in the wrong places and Randy's reply was too late for me to try.

So after I installed DW again, and spent the following day installing my add ins. Then I checked for changes in files and folders based on the Date Modified and found many changes for that date in (Vista file format):
C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration

So if anyone else has this happen, that's what I would try and back up. If it works, let us know - it's a shame that Adobe doesn't have a way to do this.
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