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Dreamweaver latest version keeps crashing

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
October 13, 2020
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When I try to change properties of an image through the Properties panel, Dreamweaver 2020 (up-to-date) crashes randomly -- too often for comfort, it's annoying and absolute breaks my workflow. And when reopened, it lists only the file that experienced the crash for recovery, from all the files that were open, not reopening all. And using the wrong view, it doesn't save that, either. I use Catalina on a MacBook Pro. The crash report opens every time and tells me there's no solution for the problem. For how long, Adobe? What about fixing select + option + drag copy, matching selected items from design view in code view and other issues? These are real problems delaying our work.

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remoran

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Dreamweaver 2024 is useless. Cannot delete line space either in source or display, keeps crashing, absoluletly the worst. I use this to design sites. Now I can't. This is consistenet on 3 Macs!!! I have use the app for years! The coders working on this should be fired, period. I was a beta tester for ID and Acrobat 1.0 so I know a little. Inexcusable to the max.

Nancy OShea

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@remoran,

There was known bug in early releases of macOS Sonoma. But Apple fixed the problem in subsequent updates.

Update your operating system to the latest release version from Apple.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-14_6-release-notes

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Check your code and fix reported validation errors.

Window > Results > Validation.

If your code is clean and DW continues to crash, try Restore Preferences.

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

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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renatoj93608056Author

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Clean code. I doubt any of the previous crashes involved files with validation issues.

This is a new laptop, I installed DW less than 3 months ago when it arrived, already with Catalina, so a clean install. And I believe the only changes I made to Preferences were related to the interface colors. If DW is crashing because of that, then how can I trust any changes won't create problems? Why would a simple change like that cause corruption?

Nayan_Kankariya

Community Manager

Hi Nayan,

Thanks for your reply and please understand my frustrations having to work 8h a day with software getting added bugs on updates. I'm glad to report that selecting, grabbing + Opt seems to working now, so that huge one apparently has been taken care of. I can't reproduce the Properties panel crash though, it's random -- although, unfortunately, often. It happens 99% when I try to change info on an image, but I don't think it's always that. I don't understand you suggestion of removing CSS designer from the active workspace, how would I use it otherwise? Do you mean temporarily, is there a fix in the works?

Hi @renatoj93608056,

Thanks for reverting on this. We suspect the crash could be due to CSS Designer panel being loaded in the active workspace. We infer this info from the submitted crash logs. In case you want to use CSS Designer panel, you can always open the panel when required from Window menu --> CSS Designer. We recommend trying out your crash workflows with CSS Designer panel not being visible in the workspace and confirm if the crash is still observed. We are unable to recreate the issue internally and hence please share the reproducible steps if possible for further investigations on the issue.

Have a pleasant day!

Regards,

Nayan

Dreamweaver Team

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