Dreamweaver Crashes since the Latest Update

Report · Apr 11, 2017

Dreamweaver CC (2017) keeps crashing on Windows 10 upon opening certain files or saving a new file with certain code in it. It started happening since the latest updates were installed (yesterday). After countless crashes, uninstalling, reinstalling, clearing cache, deleting Personal Configuration folder I have narrowed it down to this:

ANY file that has a php tag (<?php) and uses certain meta tags will crash the program as soon as the file is opened (Message: Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017 has stopped working).

Here is the code that causes it:

<?php

// do nothing

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

</head>

<body>

Lorem ipsum...

</body>

</html>

It's not limited to opening an already existing file with this code. If I paste the above code and try to save, it also crashes Dreamweaver.

Note: I did not encounter this issue before the latest update yesterday, 4/10/17.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any possible solutions? Thanks.

Report · Apr 11, 2017

Did you restart computer after the update?

Try using an HTML5 doc type and save this as a .php file in your defined local site folder.

<?php

// do nothing

?>

<!doctype html>

<html lang="en">

<head>

<meta charset="utf-8">

</head>

<body>

<h3>Heading 3</h3>

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Eum error sapiente at dignissimos quasi iusto quaerat aspernatur, perspiciatis distinctio, maiores commodi, amet quia mollitia quos fugit suscipit! Officia, animi, iste</p>

</body>

</html>

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator

Report · Apr 12, 2017

There is a known crash with DW CC 17.0.2 which gets resolved on system restart. As you are seeing crash since update only then please give it a try. For more details:

Dreamweaver crashes in the latest update (2017.0.2)