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Hi,Just tried to open DW.  It fails to load with an error. "Dreamweaver encountered problems while constructing the menus from the current menus.xml file.please delete the current menus.xml file and rename menus.bak to menus.xml" I notice other have had this issue.  My environment is on a MacOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6.  iMac 27Inch Mid 2011. On dreamweaver cc I have been unable to update the software as the update is no longer compatible with my setup "Not Compatible".   I am on a mid 2011 iMac.  There is no way I can get a new iMac yet or upgrade the iMac yet, and it is an absolute that I need DW.  So I'm really really stuck right now. To better manage HardDrive Storage, some years ago now, I moved my access to the Adobe documents, from th HD to an iCloud drive.  All Adobe applications have worked perfectly until today DW doesnt open.   Is there anyway that I can get Dreamweaver back up and running on my current

Is it ok to uninstall a previous version of DW? I have multiple DW versions now. I am afraid it's overloading my Mac.

Usually I try to be constructive in my posts, but I have to vent.  I'm using Dreamweaver 21.0- there are so very many bugs in it that it slows down development.  I'd be tempted to jump ship, but right now I'm in the middle of a project and doing that would also be disruptive. I do appreciate the many good features it has, but things like completely random auto-collapses that indiscriminantly span HTML and CSS and Javascript code- maybe 600-1000 lines, at a mid-element, random point, is maddening.  Frequently they won't expand at all.  There are times that Dreamweaver becomes so sluggish, so buggy, that I have to close and relaunch it. My projects are not gigantic, but are what I would call medium-sized.  There are other bugs- auto-complete gets really sluggish after a few thousand lines, and markedly quickly to the point that it is not usable.  Autocomplete of DIV names in Javascript are buggy- if you've typed a few letters and then autocomplete,

When I try to apply source formatting, nothing gets formatted.  Is there any way for me to debug this - to figure you what in my code is causing it to fail?

Does Adobe provide an online search capability for certified Dreamweaver professionals?   I am seeking someone for a short term consulting project.  If question not allowed, please delete it. 

My idea is coming from making myself easier to choose from different types of format options for each page quicker like below. Editable   Option1 - list format   Option2 - table format   Option3 - image thumnailf ormat   ....EndEditable I can of course leave one or two options and remove the rest manually, which I'm doing now. But much faster if I can just toggle true/false for those template options. Toshi

Hi, I am getting an error when I try to test an asp page (vb) with a recordest in it. The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot open the file '(unknown)'. When I double-click the recordset in dreamweaver and click test it works fine though. I haven't got the db open elsewhere and don't think it's read-only, so I can't work it out. Help! Thanks, Mark.

Nancy helped me four years ago to set up XAMPP Apache PHP developer on DW. I use it for ±30 sites without a problem. I hope that she or someone else can enlighten me as to how to correct this glitch. On a new site and a new directory, to which I applied XAMPP, I seem to have an incorrect pathway to this new site's pages. When I right-click a file in this new site (using Mac Catalina), the "Open in Browser" option opens and I select Safari. However, the page does not open. Instead, Safari shows this error message. . .I suspect that the referenced pathway error indicates that I loaded the site's files in an inappropriate Applications folder location. I say that because, instead of seeing the hyperlink start with the usual "localhost/..." this new site's hyperlinks start with "file:///" (see arrow above). This problematic site's files are in a different directory (titled "searchers") than the root directory "WCD" whose files all open locally without a snag. This next screenshot

I have a website that uses HTML5 and PHP.  I use DW 21. When I submit the pages to W3C validation, any page with a <?PHP> tag on it generates a validation error.For example, this line <?php if (!isset($_SESSION)) { session_start(); } ?> generates this validation error:Error       C:\xampp\htdocs\Partnership\index.php Saw <? . Probable cause: Attempt to use an XML processing instruction in HTML. (XML processing instructions are not supported in HTML.)      2 I'm sure this is because the php commands have not been stripped out before it gets to the validator.  Is there a way to avoid these errors?

I just upgraded to 21.0 and wondering if anyone else is having an issue highlighting text in design mode. I have my screen set up as split view with design view on the left and split view on the right. When I try to highlight text on the design side, it highlights the text in the code side instead of the design sign. That's very confusing and hard to make sure I'm highlighting what I need to.

My live view is has grey borders and is ineditable after Big Sur. I noted an earlier thread that suggested resetting the preferences would fix it but it hasn't.It happened when I installed the Big Sur beta (yes I know ...) and I assumed it would come right with the full release, but no. Is there easy solution or should I reinstall. Thanks

I could easily go in a spree of curse words, insults, and a burn it all down tirade over Dreamweaver and how it is an abject disaster, compromising my ability to make a living in web development. But I won't because it doesn't do any good. Adobe, why do you hate us? Why do you torture us with masochistic glee. I've cancelled my subscription. Way to go, Adobe. Good riddance. 

In the documentation for DW (when you can find it), regarding live view, it states DW will automatically insert paragraph tags when pasting text. Mine does not, no matter if I use CTRL-V or EDIT-PASTE. If I hit enter to start a paragraph in a blank doc to add my content, it inserts 2! Both have non-breaking spaces in them. Handy, having to remove the extra, then the space, then add my text. Making things far slower and complicated. Then, there's the paragraph splitting, which is the main issue I'd love some help with. If I paste something in that needs to be broken into paragraphs, there's no way to do this that I could find other than manual code edits. In design view, it's place the cursor, hit enter, it splits it (end one, begin a new one). In live view, that same key makes it so you're editing that block/P. No keys I hit from there will split it into 2 as it does in design mode. Tried insert paragraph...it inserts a full pair at the start of the paragraph (or before/

[Moderator branched & moved to a new topic.]   Did you ever get this fixed?

Ok I have a project I need to do and it is calling for bootscrap.  Where do I find this when I create a new site.  Does CS6 even have it?

At the bottom of this page conald marlow there is a gap between the final ruler line and the top of the footer.  I cannot see why this gap exists. I have a slight suspicion it may be  something to do with my ‘sticky footer’ which I have copied from css tricks  (I am using the first of the five methods described there).  I say  this because there is a div in that gap used by the ‘sticky footer’ with a class of 'push'  but it’s only 50px but that does not account for the rest of the gap. There are other pages in my site that do not have such a gap, take a look at  annie or harry  I have validated the html and the three css files involved and looked at the page with Firefox Developer tools but still cannot figure out why that gap exists – help!

I just got a weird message.  The page shows properly.  However, at the BOTTOM, this miessage appears:Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: Serialization of 'PDOStatement' is not allowed in [no active file]:0 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in [no active file] on line 0 Does anyone have any idea what this means or where I might look to find the problem? Any advice will be appreciated!  Thanks... 

Hello All.  I am using a Bootstrap 4 navbar that is a server side include.  Since the navbar is pulled from the server to each page - there are many - is there a way I can get the navbar to make the page it is on active/highligted in the navbar?Thanks for your help..

Hi,I am starting to work with Dw templates. I am trying to nest an editable optional region inside a repetitive region and the problem is that each time a new repetitive region is inserted, the nested editable optional region bears the same name, so any modification of the template modifies all editable optional regions with the same name.How to resolve this problem ?Thansk for any hint.Jacob[Moderator: moved from Creative Cloud to Dreamweaver Support forum.]

I've created a new class for the footer and want to change the link colors but when I try, it says my a:link etc are invalid CSS.  What am I missing?  Is this a bug?  It seems to me that adding, editing css is not as easy as it was. I have selected hyperlinked text in the footer area to try and modify the colors. 

Hi,   I added an image to a page from another location on my harddrive.  DW used to copy the image or ask me if I wanted to copy it to my current directory. It is no longer doing that. Is there a way to fix it? 

I have my site up and running about 6 months and upload through cyber duck. On the index page I have a slideshow of photographs that I change regularly through my CSS page. All working well until I changed the photos again and it looks perfect locally but when I load it through cyber duck the photos have not changed. Can anyone help please? This is my first we page. I just can't figure out what's going on? Thanks Rachel

"Revocation information fo rthe security certificate for this site is not available. Do you want to proceed? "Again DW 20.2 and on a Windows 7 laptop.  The certificate in question is valid in fact it is happen with any site that has a certificate.Lasy week I was receiving a weird Javascript error.  I corrected it by deleting the cache.  I have tried that it is did not help this problem. Thank you for an ideas you may have.  I am having Windows 10 installed next week so I won't be reinstall CC until after that.

Hi, Is Insert>Form>Jump Menu no longer available in DW 2021? I haven't had need of it for quite a long time but I do now and I don't see it available in either the Insert menu or Insert panel. Is it called something else now and I'm just missing it?  Thanks,David

Until recently, I've had a field below the code field in Dreamweaver that identified problems in the code, such as extra or missing </p>. It has disappeared, and I can't figure out how to get it back. Any ideas? It's Dreamweaver 21.0 for Mac thanks