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Dreamweaver 21.5 Not Responding

Community Beginner ,
Jun 24, 2025 Jun 24, 2025

I’m facing an issue with Adobe Dreamweaver 21.5 — the application frequently hangs and becomes unresponsive, which is affecting my workflow. Kindly look into this and suggest a solution at the earliest.

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Community Expert ,
Jun 24, 2025 Jun 24, 2025

What OS are you using? OS version? Is this happening all the time or when you perform repeated events? The more information you can provide the better.

 

It may also be worth searching the community as there are some noted issues with the latest version where many have recommended to roll back to the previous version, 21.4, for the time being.

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Community Expert ,
Jun 24, 2025 Jun 24, 2025

1. Close Dreamweaver.

2. Restore Preferences: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html

3. Restart your Computer.

4. Launch Dreamweaver by right-clicking desktop icon, select Run as Administrator.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
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Community Beginner ,
Jun 25, 2025 Jun 25, 2025

Hello.

From my own experience, I suggest you simply revert to version 21.4 and stop updating. Version 21.5 has been experiencing constant crashes reported by several users, both on Mac and Windows (myself included on Windows 11). It's been like this for over a month, but Adobe doesn't seem to care 😞

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Adobe Employee ,
Jun 25, 2025 Jun 25, 2025

Hi @Dhiraj K,

 

Thanks for writing to us. Can you please confirm the OS platform and machine details where you are observing the unresponsive behavior while working in Dw. If possible, can you please share the exact workflow where we are encountering the issue and also a short screen recording illustrating the issue so that we can troubleshoot and investigate the issue at our side.

 

Link: https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html 

 

Please confirm if you have tried resetting Dw app preferences by following the steps in the below KB article.

 

Have a pleasant day!

 

Regards,

Nayan

Dreamweaver Team

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Adobe Employee ,
Jun 25, 2025 Jun 25, 2025

Hi @oscarm72005930,

 

Thanks for adding your comment. We do not see frequent reports with Dw crash on Windows, it will be helpful if you can share the workflow where the crash is observed so that we can troubleshoot the behavior and investigate accordingly. Also, please confirm if you have submitted the crash report via the Adobe crash dialog which gets invoked on app crash.

 

Have a pleasant day!

 

Regards,

Nayan

Dreamweaver Team

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New Here ,
Jun 29, 2025 Jun 29, 2025

"We do not see frequent reports with Dw crash on Windows"

🤣 Are you serious?

When Adobe software crashes / freezes on windows, your customers are trapped watching the *NOT   RESPONDING* loop spin endlessly and the only way out is a force quit. Non responding software cannot send crash logs so your reports logs are flawed and inaccurate. This has been an issue with Adobe products for years. 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 02, 2025 Jul 02, 2025

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New Here ,
Jul 10, 2025 Jul 10, 2025

Same issues here and with my entire team. Dreamweaver constantly asks for folder permissions, freezes, and or crashes. I'm on a MacBool Pro with OS 15.5. I've uninstalled and reinstalled with zero improvement.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 10, 2025 Jul 10, 2025

@brilliant_idea0582 

Did you wipe your hard drive of all previous installations with the Adobe CC Cleaner Tool, prior to reinstalling?

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

 

Did you try these suggestions first?

1. Close Dreamweaver.

2. Restore Preferences: 

https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html

3. Restart your Computer.

4. Launch Dreamweaver as an Administrator.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
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Community Beginner ,
Jul 17, 2025 Jul 17, 2025
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No previous or older version of Dreamweaver is installed on the PC.

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