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ToloUSN
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May 12, 2018
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Dreamweaver CC 18.0 Unbelievably Slow

  • May 12, 2018
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Okay, I've been using Dreamweaver since it was Macromedia, but it's NEVER been that slow.

I am using the most up to date version (even though I did try to downgrade to 2015 because according to some topics that solved people's issues).

I've tried everything and it just makes no sense. It's a text editor, but each time I place my cursor inside Dreamweaver it takes about 2 minutes to think about it first. Then it works for 5 seconds, then it still deliberates for another minute and then it allows me to continue typing. I can keep typing just fine, but the second I switch focus to the browser and come back, it's the same thing all over again.
I've tried turning off everything I could:

  1. I disabled the site caching
  2. turned off linting
  3. turned off w3c validator
  4. turned off related files
  5. deleted the cache folder
  6. reinstalled and updated dreamwever

I've been trying to disable git too, but it just doesn't go away. I want to use git, but I don't plan to use git with dreamweaver, why am I being forced to see all the highlights? And if that's what slowing everything down, I sort of wanna punch the code in the face.

Anywho, if you had similar problem and solved, please, PLEASE tell me what to do. This is an editor in 2018. My notepad on Windows 3.11 never had as much lag. Could Windows version be an issue? I'm using Windows 7. I'm a paying member for multiple CC subscription (at home and at work). Both computers have the same (or similar) issues.

Please help.

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    Correct answer Kratika Agarwal

    Hi Folks,

     

    We have addressed the slow typing issue in code view on win, in our latest DW21.0 build 21.0.0.15392 which can be downloaded from Creative cloud.

    Please update the Dreamweaver version to 21.0 and see if the issue is resolved for you.

     

    Thanks

    Dreamweaver Team

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    dentedjaw
    Participant
    August 24, 2020

    Now I just have to figure out how to switch to standard mode... back to google.

    K
    Community Manager
    Kratika AgarwalCommunity ManagerCorrect answer
    Community Manager
    October 20, 2020

    Hi Folks,

     

    We have addressed the slow typing issue in code view on win, in our latest DW21.0 build 21.0.0.15392 which can be downloaded from Creative cloud.

    Please update the Dreamweaver version to 21.0 and see if the issue is resolved for you.

     

    Thanks

    Dreamweaver Team

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    Tech-Team-LER
    Participant
    August 11, 2020

    Hello,
    I solved this by unchecking the option "Automatically Sync Remote Files" under the menu item View > Live View Options.
    Hope that is helpful to others as well.

    Pranjal_Bhuyan
    Pranjal_Bhuyan
    Participant
    July 7, 2020

    I have the similar problem very slow latest Dreamwaver. When Adobe fix the issue.

    K
    Community Manager
    Kratika AgarwalCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    July 13, 2020

    Hi 

     

    We are investigating this issue at our end, meanwhile as a workaround can you perform below steps and see if the issue is resolved.

    1. close DW
    2. Go to Registry key press win +R -> type regedit
    3. go to \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Dreamweaver 2020\Temp File List\
    4. delete theTemp File List folder and restart Dreamweaver (before deleting the folder first take backup of the folder, right click on it and select export)

     

    Thanks

    Dreamweaver Team

    Pranjal_Bhuyan
    Pranjal_Bhuyan
    Participant
    July 14, 2020

    Thank you, this quick fixed is working now. But we definitely expected a permanent solution.

    Regards,

    Pranjal

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    WVvocrehab
    Participant
    July 6, 2020

    Thanks for this. It may go without saying, but I thought it worth mentioning that I was using customized settings based on Developer mode, then saved under my own custom profile. If you've done this, it may not be immediately obvious that switching to Standard mode will solve your problem. It did solve mine.

    Small rant: I have used Adobe products for many years. I used InDesign when it was Pagemaker, Photoshop 4 and above, Dreamweaver CS3, Acrobat 7 Professional, etc. I appreciate the difficulty of making these programs "talk" to each other, and most of the improvements Adobe has made through the years are great. But I REALLY wish Adobe assigned more developers to address existing problems than to develop new features. More is not always better, and reliability matters.

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    dannyatrv
    Participant
    August 5, 2019

    I've been suffering with this for quite a while. Thanks for the solution!

    If this helps, in my case I had it in standard mode already but I clicked on "reset standard" and it fixed it.

    Thanks again!

    paulc89302236
    paulc89302236
    Participating Frequently
    March 17, 2020

    Having properties enabled slowed down my page edits etc.

    Removed and speed increased significantly.

    DannGillen
    DannGillen
    Participant
    May 16, 2019

    Thanks for all of the effort on this thread!


    My DW 2019 was running like molasses, especially with a browser window open!

    What worked for me was to turn off Design Notes within the site.

    Either open Site Management at the bottom of the drop-down and select the site or double click the site name > Advanced Settings > Design Notes > Uncheck "Maintain Design Notes" if checked.

    Hope that helps!

    rokb55178802
    rokb55178802
    Participating Frequently
    January 21, 2019

    I had the very same problem and found out that somehow I had Git activated for particular site. But not in actual Site preferences, but just had a git folder. And I wasn't actually using it. Maybe it even had false connections to git.

    I think all may files have been monitored by git service (nothing in gitignore actually) and that slowed everything dramatically.

    Anyway, I wasn't checking in detail.

    I went to Site files (show hidden files) and just deleted the git folder (I had git folder).

    Of course If you don't need git.

    That worked for me.

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      robertp90358595
      Known Participant
      January 10, 2019

      Hello, I am a long time Adobe user and have periodically had to solve similar issues with their software, so I am fairly competent with troubleshooting these types of issues. However, with Dreamweaver 2018 I am unable to get it to run properly. I have gone through every fix that I can find, but none of them seem to make any improvement at all. I am having this problem on my work PC, my  home PC and also my colleagues PC. On all of these computers the performance is unacceptable and thus they are all also using DW2015 as that is the last version that appears to run smoothly. With DW2018 the lag is constant, everywhere, when typing, selecting, scrolling, whatever.

      Here are the specs for this particular PC

      - Model: Asus Q504UAK
      - Windows 10 Home 64bit (latest updates installed)

      - 16gb ram

      - Intel Core I7 @ 2.7GHz

      - on board graphics

      I have periodically tried coming back to DW2018 over the past year, each time checking on any new/updates about these issues. After all this time there is still no solution, and it seems that there are many others in the same situation as myself. I find it hard to believe that it's a problem with my computer when all three of the PC's I have tested it on all have the same problem, along with so many others.

      Nancy OShea
      Community Expert
      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 10, 2019

      The current version is 2019.   Have you tried it?  I ask because I did not like 2018 for other reasons but slowness wasn't a particular problem for me on Win10. 

      There are a number of things that can cause slowness but we would need to know more about your workflow.

      • Are you working in a defined local site folder on your primary hard drive? 
      • Do you use externally hosted assets on CDNs?
      • Do you mainly work in Live, Design or Code view?
      • How  many site files?
      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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      robertp90358595
      Known Participant
      January 14, 2019

      Hi Nancy,

      Thanks for taking the time to respond. I was not aware a new 2019 version was released, I just updated to it and tried it out but unfortunately it is still very slow. It seems like it may be a tad faster, but overall the performance is still unacceptable. With that said, I didn't go through the trouble of trying the various fixes with the 2019 install, so it's possible it could be resolved with some additional tweaking... So, maybe I'll take some time and try to do that at some point.

      To answer your questions:

      • My local site is normally on a network drive, however for testing I switched to a local drive and that did not seem to make any noticeable improvment.
      • Yes, some of them, though the lag exists on all files that do not have any.
      • Code view 99.99% of the time.
      • Depending on the site, it could be a couple dozen to a couple thousand, just depends.

      For testing I made a new site on my local drive with just a single file a couple hundred lines long, no remote connection, no testing server and no fancy stuff. Just using it as a plain old text editor... Yet I Still getting terrible lag!

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      awn2be
      Participating Frequently
      December 18, 2018

      I found that I was able to improve FTP performance by NOT maintaining synchronization information with the remote server.  This setting is found in "Site Setup/Servers/Advanced".  I do not suggest you change this setting without fully understanding all ramifications... I'm just saying that it worked for me.

      ALsp
      ALsp
      Legend
      May 12, 2018

      It is slow. It can range from merely slow to agonizingly slow. It is a little faster on Windows 10 as it is on Windows 7. Don't let anyone, especially from Adobe, lead you to believe the problem is caused by your computers and not by Adobe code.

      You get used to it, I guess, as evidenced from the handful of Adobe regulars around here who actually seem to use it, and I can offer testimony that it does get a little faster the more often you open and close it, and based on the number of files in your local defined site.

      If you have Dreamweaver CS6 available in your Cloud configuration, my advice would be to install it and use it as Dreamweaver 18 has absolutely nothing of value as far as I'm concerned, especially when you weigh the features removed versus the ones added.

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      ToloUSNAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      May 12, 2018

      Thanks ALsp,

      This is beyond unacceptable. The least Adobe can do is offer some sort of debug utility that monitors what DW is actually doing and an ability to turn it off.

      You bring up a good point. All my sites are pretty large in size. One of my sites includes a social network site built over the last 6 years, and the other is multi design web-builder framework. So yes, even the smaller one has over 130k files, and I've given up a long time on an ability to use DW search functionality, because it crashes each time, but if I open a single file with related files disabled, it shouldn't keep on crashing all the time.

      As I said, I've been using DW for about 15 years now, and I'd hate to switch, but I doubt that any sane new developer would try DW and want to stick with it. If there's no fix for that, I can only see everyone leaving Adobe and no one new coming in, especially on the coding end of it.

      ALsp
      ALsp
      Legend
      May 12, 2018

      I guess what I was trying to say is this...

      If you've been using Dreamweaver for 15 years, then you should have one of the Creative Suite editions (CS4-CS6). Those are fine, and if you use Windows, will likely work just fine and dandy for the next 15 years. If you use a Mac, then you could use CS6. Those versions are superior to the more recent Creative Cloud versions. So, there is no need to abandon Dreamweaver. Simply use a stable older version until Adobe gets its doodoo together.

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