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Mac Dreamweaver CS6 very slow to open files

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
June 26, 2012
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Hi

My Mac Dreamweaver CS6 opens html files in about 1-2 minutes! It is very very slow. It all works when the file is open but it is the actual opening that is slow.

I have turned off external files but no change.

Any ideas??

Thanks

Mac Pro

Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Memory 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB

Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)

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James Prout

Known Participant

I have a similar issue, except that Dreamweaver always hangs up when I either save a file or try to switch between one of the many sites I maintain. One particular site is giving me more issues than others. But I have two other people in this department that do not have any issues with that same site at all. I got on with support and they told me having all my files not directly on my desktop computer but rather on a remote server was the issue. Hogwash!

I need this fixed as it is slowing down the business!

Jim

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

It's an easy out for support to blame the user, it's just the way of CS in general. Though, over the years, DW has seemed to have intermittent issues with saving files to network drives. It does tend to like local files better and odd set-ups can cause more issues.

What version of the program are you running?
What OS?

Have you conducted any of the standard troubleshooting steps (clearing program cache, restore prefs, reinstall using Cleaner Tool, etc)?

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Is the beta available with Adobe Creative Cloud subscription?

The beta is not part of Creative Cloud as yet. It is in public beta testing which means it's not a full version of the software. The Public Beta is available to anyone with an Adobe ID and password. You don't need to be a Creative Cloud plan subscriber to try it.

Nancy O.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Anonymous

My Dreamweaver speedup when i comment all google resourses in meta tags. Before that, index.php of my site (6 kb) open in 1:30 - 2 minutes. Now its open about 5 - 8 sec.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

It helps DW performance to put GA tracking code into a separate physical file -- either a .js or a server-side include.

Nancy O.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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joejourneys

Participant

I agree, CS6 is massively slower on my Macbook Pro - it struggles and often get Application not responding.

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Kees van Surksum

Known Participant

Hi Thiago and all others,

your "solution" is working on local files. But as soon as you sync the index file on a remote server, it doesn't load the related style sheets anymore. So, this can't be a proper solution.

I experience the slow page loading only since recently. Right after the first time I put a site under construction on the business catalyst site. Before I had no problems. So I guess, there is a relation to this issue. Putting the remote site on my own hosting server again, didn't change anything BTW.

I looked at the general settings in Dreamweaver (CS6/CC) and unchecked the related files option completely. That solved the problem on my system. Now pages are loaded for editing fast as ever before. But on the minus side I miss of course the related file option. I can live with that ... or check it, whenever I need it.

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LarryRamp

Inspiring

View this link to see how to fix slow file opening:

Hang when opening document | Dreamweaver CS5

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EdwardN5

Participant

Brilliant. thanks - I have been having this issue on CC 2014 and this fixed it. Also I found disconnecting the computer from the network worked too. Been driving me mad - taking over 15 minutes to open the first file on a complicated website, with lots of includes.

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Thiago Ghilardi

Participant

In case people haven't found the answer, I was having the same problem with files that had links to large css files.

I replaced <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/testa2/css/compiled/theme.css">

for

for all external css files and the problem went away. Hope that helps.

The ".." probably helps DW find the files faster.

Preran

Community Manager

Hi Thiago,

Thank you for sharing your solution with us.

Thanks,

Preran

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chaos_avatar

Participant

I've been strugling with this issue for a long time.

I've found that Dreamweaver takes about 2 minutes to open CSS files with @import url for font face.

for example:

@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,300);

i've never had problem with big files but if i place this line into my 20k css file, it takes for ever to load.

if i remove it, it opens fast as usual.

Please don't tell me that it could be a Google problem thatis loading slow because it's not.

the font file isnt big enough either.

Of course i have deativated the "load things from external urls" setting.

any ideas on how could this be fixed withoput changing my work style ?

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Here's the thing. Links to external scripts on other servers often look for a user agent (browser identifier). DW is not a browser so it can't send user agent info. When it tries to connect with the external site and doesn't get an immediate reply, it hangs.

A few options:

Comment out the offending code until you're ready to publish the site.
Disable CSS. View > Style Rendering > untick Display Styles.
Use a Design Time Style sheet without the @ import rules.

The latter 2 will not effect Live View or Preview in browsers.

Nancy O.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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chaos_avatar

Participant

Thank you very much for your time and thoughts Nancy!

i would like you to help me finding the option you mention here:

i could not find it in my spanish dreamweaver (i never meant to have a spanish dreamweaver but it happened), tried to find an option similar to "display Styles"

http://screencast.com/t/EPwy7uLXh

in my particular case i always work in code view, i always code CSS in code view. Never use / nevwe will use design view. I wish a way to get DW to NEVER try to connect to the external source because i will never want to see the work on DW itself.

btw... The options 1 and 3 semms to me pretty uncoonfortable because they mean a lot of extra work.

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Anonymous

Did anyone ever resolve this issue? I am having the same problem. Switching between sites and opening files in CS6 takes forever!

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OlsVer

Participant

It is just as bad as ever. I thought an update would come along any day but

it is now getting ridiculous.

I have stopped taking regular breaks but instead take my breaks when

Dreamweaver is having a long think. I have had much longer breaks as a

result.

I guess it is a delay caused by DW taking a look at the whole site before

loading a file but I wish It wouldn't. It has caused me quite a lot of

embarrassment at meetings already.

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LarryRamp

Inspiring

I usually go on breaks too when I open Dreamweaver C6.... another annoying feature is no html tool bars and all the deprecated tags are removed intentionally.... it just so happens there are some sites we manage that do not want us to charge them to change the format of their sites.... almost all the html is missing. there are not even <h1> tags, or <p> tags...didnt know those were deprecated... if you plan on buying this version....keep your CS4 so you can edit older sites....very disappointed in Adobe. They rushed this to market to suck more cash out of your pocket.... incomplete program ...worst one they put out in years.

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OlsVer

Participant

This is still a big problem for me. Will Adobe come back to us about this?

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Sideways Design

Participating Frequently

I'm running the 5842 build (ostensibly 12.01), and the first HTML file to open after launch is still ridiculously slow, around 2 minutes. That is just for HTML files, with no associated website. Subsequent HTML files open as quickly as expected.

Does it really take months to fix this stuff?

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OlsVer

Participant

I am having the same problem. The file seems to start to open and the file tab starts to form but then hangs for up to 10minutes. For the first 20 times this happened I would open the file in another program and copy and paste the code in to a new document but this was a little tedious. Now I have learnt you just have to wait and so I go away and make a coffee (or write this comment on the forum) and by the time I get back it is done.

The only pattern I can see is that they were files that predate CS6 and are .asp.

Is there going to be an update that fixes this?

Best wishes,

Oliver

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c41

Participating Frequently

wow, i thought my copy of DW6 was slow taking 5-6 seconds to open files.

and its taking minutes for you guys. wow.

Does anyone know of an html editor (other than Dreamweaver) that has autocomplete of user defined css class/id names when editing html? as in, css classnames from a linked or open css file...

have tried ST2 and Chocolat with no success

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mpsoden

Participant

The speed is still a big issue. I installed the updater for 12.01 and all my issues except speed went away. Today I am having the same put issues as before. It says that it put the files. yet it actually deleted the file on the remote server. Very frustrating

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