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abnfire2
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April 30, 2010
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dreamweaver cs5 hangs on start

  • April 30, 2010
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every time i start dreamweaver cs5, it get stuck on initializing files, i  cant even do end task on it. i tried giving administrator permission,  try switching to xp compatible or vista, nothing works. anyone knows  what can be the problem?

i have attack the image on what it get stuck on.

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/9669/dreamweaver.gif

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    leocheungnyc
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    May 7, 2010

    I could only open up to three CS5 and somehow it makes the windows explorer hangs as well.

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    psychonautical
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    May 6, 2010

    CS5 is garbage. period. even worse than CS4 - I thought Adobe would wake up and get serious about making this a decent product for the mac, but they have failed as usual. Nothing in this new release works well, I've had over 15 crashes in under 12 hours, so-called new features don't work.....ugh, huge waste of my time and energy. Though CS4 is extremely shoddy, I'll have to stick with it for now.....

    The upside is that I am highly motivated to master WordPress. Adobe doesn't have enough respect for it's customers to admit they have no interest in Dreamweaver - never really have....

    John Waller
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    John WallerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 6, 2010

    There are no widespread reports yet suggesting the issues you're facing are common, esp not repeated crashes.

    Is there any chance that your system needs a cleanout? I expect the answer's no and everything else works fine. Just thought I'd ask.

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    psychonautical
    Participant
    May 7, 2010

    i work dreamweaver hard - and on every macbook pro I've had (4 of them) in the past 3 years - dreamweaver has been a HUGE problem - I have many colleagues with similar complaints....

    photoshop is also buggy, fireworks crashes often..... the list goes on.

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    Jim Bloom
    Participant
    May 1, 2010

    It's true that you can't run firevault, but here's how to fix this (on a mac 10.6.3)

    1) locate ~/library/application support/adobe/dreamweaver cs5

    2) Get info

    3) Under sharing & permissions, add your user name w/ r/w access

    4) Enjoy CS5

    David_Powers
    David_Powers
    Inspiring
    May 1, 2010

    Jim Bloom wrote:

    It's true that you can't run firevault, but here's how to fix this (on a mac 10.6.3)

    Thanks, Jim. I have added that information to the Dreamweaver FAQ with an acknowledgement to you http://forums.adobe.com/thread/629224.

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    Ben MCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 1, 2010

    Honestly this problem is not just with Dreamweaver.  The Photoshop forums have had this same problem although 2 Adobe employees have (Jeff Tranberry & Chris Cox) have been working over there talking about an initial round of patches for Photoshop to fix that and the Camera Raw plugin (seems 6.0 code may have been locked before 5.7 so new cameras are missing).    And it is suspected that this bug will affect the operation of ALL Adobe CS5 Mac products because they all set permissions like this.  It might be worth noting this.

    Photoshop thread - http://forums.adobe.com/thread/628368?tstart=0

    And for those interested in the Camera Raw:

    http://forums.adobe.com/thread/628543?tstart=0

    And a blog post from today discussing the Camera Raw 6.1 update:

    http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2010/05/camera_raw_60_now_shipping_as.html

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    abnfire2Author
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    May 1, 2010

    well i just installed my missing drivers for my motherboard, which was just audio and marvel.. i didnt do anything else, but my dreamweaver works perfectly fine now. and start right away. :/

    it sound stupid, but check if your all drivers are installed, if not and then install it and check again with your dreamweaver, if it works after it. if it does, then DW is really stupid.

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    abnfire2Author
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    May 1, 2010

    i left my pc on and went to sleep, after hours later then dreamweaver finally was open, when i woke up. what could be problem with it? i started again and its on hang again, so im guessing after hours later it will open again. any solution?

    RJweb
    RJweb
    Inspiring
    April 30, 2010

    did not realize they released the trail yet, when did this happen?

    John Waller
    Community Expert
    John WallerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 30, 2010

    In the last 24 hours.

    Seems Adobe's CS5 strategy was to underpromise (CS5 available "in May" according to the FAQ) and overdeliver (actually shipped 29/30 April).

    The surprise to me was that the Trials were made available on the same day as the product shipped. In the past, the Trials were made available a week or two after shipping.

    John Waller
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    John WallerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 1, 2010

    Actually if you pre-ordered CS5, the release date was 4/29 and the product was available for download on 4/30 so it was late in some respects.

    To the user having the problem, the more information you can provide the better.  What version of Windows, 32-bit/64-bit, any other programs running, have you tried another user account on the machine, etc., etc.?

    Also if you think it is a bug call Adobe or send in a bug report: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform .  If you do not do this they will never know.  They do not respond on the forums.


    Actually if you pre-ordered CS5, the release date was 4/29 and the product was available for download on 4/30 so it was late in some respects.


    The details have obviously been tightened up as shipping approached. I do remember that the date at launch was sometime in May.

    Regardless, it's here now and the calls for help have already begun.

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    Anonymous
    April 30, 2010

    Hey,

    I have no idea what the problem is but I have also just installed the trial version of CS5 and it doesn't work for me either.

    Mine loads up ok but as soon as I click on anything to start to use it, it freezes my laptop. I can't shut my laptop down, nor will just turning it off with the button work. Iv had to take out my battery to restart it again.

    I tried to contact adobe support but I cannot do that without a serial number (trial versions don't seem to have one).

    Basically its crap & I cannot contact adobe to tell them because their customer service channels are inadequate (& I'm not very good with computers). If anyone can sort us both out through the forum that would be great.

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    JohnWebPro
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    April 30, 2010

    Downloaded Web Premium trial today. Launched/closed DW, PS and FW without issue.

    Now, upon relaunching DW, it hangs on "Initializing Extension Data..." . Moved plugins - no fix. Ran Adobe Support Manager - no fix. (PS + FW relaunch ok.)

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