[thelist] Dreamweaver and hand-coding

[Juha Suni]

Courtenay wrote:
> However, despite the numerous strong points, it is important to note
> that Dreamweaver is a Buggy Piece of Junk (tm), and may requires
> frequent reinstalls/deletion of user preferences/etc every few months.
>
> It likes to inexplicably crash but won't tell you why, so you either
> remove your user settings files, or do the whole reinstall.  After
> four or five of these you get pretty good at it.

Woah there must be something strange going on with your setup. I've used DW
for like 5 years and it has crashed about 5 times total, thats about once
per year. I rarely see software that is so stable, and I'm on an old low-end
comp with little memory and Win2k. I have never needed to reinstall, and at
home DW even survived a complete reinstall of windows and started fine by
just clicking on the exe once again.

I'd suggest you try to find out what exactly causes the crashing and take it
up with macromedia, or search for similar cases in the net. Just to let you
know that to my knowledge, a crashing dreamweaver is far from normal. You
might want to spend some time to get it fixed. It can be a memory hog
sometimes, though, and yes, there are bugs like practically every other
software.

FYI, Im using Dreamweaver MX (non-2004, since I've gotten used to it and
have seen numerous posts from DW veterans that claim MX2004 is worse, or at
least, different).

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Suni