Save/Load Find and Replace Queries Dreamweaver CC 18

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October 20, 2017
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Where are the save and load buttons for the Find and Replace queries in the newest update? This was an issue when you released CC 17 and you updated later. I don't understand why it was removed for the 18 version. There are lots of people that use these find and replace searches every day.

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Correct answer Niharika Jha

Hi,

The Save/Load search queries is a hidden option same as in CC 2017.5. You need to add new keys for enabling this functionality, please follow the steps below to do so-

Make sure you have Dreamweaver CC 2018 installed. Open Dreamweaver and use the Advanced Find and Replace dialog at least once, and then close Dreamweaver.

On Windows:

Open the Registry Editor - In the Start Menu, either in the Run Box or the Search box, type regedit and press Enter.
Navigate to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Dreamweaver CC 2018\Advanced Find And Replace
Right click and create a new string value with ShowHiddenOptions=TRUE.
Close the Registry Editor.

On Mac:

Use Finder to navigate to ~/Library/Preferences.
Open Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2018 Prefs using a text editor.
Find the [Advanced Find and Replace] section and add showhiddenoptions=TRUE.
Save and close the file.

Open Dreamweaver. Open the Advanced Find and Replace dialog. You can now see the options to load and save queries.
Regards,
Niharika Gupta
Adobe Dreamweaver

Niharika JhaCorrect answer

Adobe Employee

Hi,

The Save/Load search queries is a hidden option same as in CC 2017.5. You need to add new keys for enabling this functionality, please follow the steps below to do so-

Make sure you have Dreamweaver CC 2018 installed. Open Dreamweaver and use the Advanced Find and Replace dialog at least once, and then close Dreamweaver.

On Windows:

Open the Registry Editor - In the Start Menu, either in the Run Box or the Search box, type regedit and press Enter.
Navigate to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Dreamweaver CC 2018\Advanced Find And Replace
Right click and create a new string value with ShowHiddenOptions=TRUE.
Close the Registry Editor.

On Mac:

Use Finder to navigate to ~/Library/Preferences.
Open Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2018 Prefs using a text editor.
Find the [Advanced Find and Replace] section and add showhiddenoptions=TRUE.
Save and close the file.

Open Dreamweaver. Open the Advanced Find and Replace dialog. You can now see the options to load and save queries.
Regards,
Niharika Gupta
Adobe Dreamweaver

johnball73Author

Participant

On a Mac and this worked. Thank you!

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

I don't recall them being put back officially, though Adobe does give directions on how to re-enable save & load queries in CC2017:

Find and replace text, tags, and attributes

It's possible the same would apply to CC2018?

johnball73Author

Participant

I checked the 2018 prefs and the show hidden options line isn't in there. I am looking through it more thoroughly now to see if I can find something else that might work.

johnball73Author

Participant

johnball73 wrote
I checked the 2018 prefs and the show hidden options line isn't in there. I am looking through it more thoroughly now to see if I can find something else that might work.

The line isn't there to start off with, the instructions I posted (and now posted by Niharika) show the line needs to be added in order to re-activate the function.

Sorry, I didn't see the "add new string" part in the link you posted until just now.