Dreamweaver Crashes on Large Files

[Guest]

Hi,

Does anyone have the solution to this problem? When I open a large file, appox. 1800 lines of code on the current page im working on, Dreamweaver 8 will freeze up. I get the hourglass cursor and Dreamweaver 8 turns to "Not responding". This file is fine to open in Dreamweaver MX 2004 which is what I'm currently using. Any solutions?

[Newsgroup_User]

Turn off Server Side Includes.

"digitalpacman" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have the solution to this problem? When I open a large file,
> appox. 1800 lines of code on the current page im working on, Dreamweaver
> 8
> will freeze up. I get the hourglass cursor and Dreamweaver 8 turns to "Not
> responding". This file is fine to open in Dreamweaver MX 2004 which is
> what I'm
> currently using. Any solutions?
>

[Guest]

This did nothing. I am in code view anyway, not in design mode.

I believe this is just a giant bug that's in dreamweaver 8 and the company I work for is about to revoke all our licensing from dreamweaver 8 because we can't even use it.

I also emailed dreamweaver support about this, but what a surprise! I got no response.

[Newsgroup_User]

Threats just don't work, and makes people less likely to try and help...
later...

"digitalpacman" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> revoke all our licensing from dreamweaver 8 because we
> can't even use it.
>

[Guest · Accepted solution]

Cool! I found the fix. Tom Muck's website had solutions to help speed up MX 2004 and I tried each step one at a time to find the problem and eventually got to it!

If you are using (you prolly are) a server application like ASP VBscript or PHP, you should turn off server behaviors (as long as you dont need them). This is done by renaming the folder in Configuation/ServerBehaviors/YourServerApplication folder and creating a new one with the same name, that contains nothing.

EXP: If you are using VBSscript rename the folder Configuration/ServerBehaviors/ASP_Vbs to ASP_VbsOLD and create a new blank folder named ASP_Vbs.

I also attached a link toTom Muck's site that has alot of other helpful hints (some dont apply to DW8)

http://www.tom-muck.com/Articles/speedhints/



P.S. DownWithBugs - Haha, threats.. I was meerly giving you a feel for how serious this problem is. That's ok though, your one liner responses arn't very helpful anyway. If you want to actually "help" people, then maybe become a little more involved, or heartful about your posts. Otherwise you're just a troll, yeah?