Well last Friday I was coding out a site (a css file to be exact), and as usual, I save and save often. Well, I saved my file and Dreamweaver crashed on me (Yes I have been using D.W., I liked the code completion). After D.W. crashed it wouldn’t open at all!?? The program would start to initialize then crash, strange? Well what were my options? Re-install, wipe everything? Switch?

I came back to work the following Monday and told my fellow Sharpdoters what happened. Then demonstrated this odd occurrence. Well first off I decided to download Eclipse and just use that, finally ditching silly Dreamweaver, but the powers that be insisted I get the bottom of this. Well after Googling “dreamweaver won’t start” I came upon a quite disturbing discovery.

Apparently in D.W. if you save a file and it’s file size is a multiple of 8,192 bytes, it will crash and be unable to restart!!! This is the strangest behavior I have ever witnessed, I could expect so much from anything having to do with Microsoft, but Dreamweaver? hmm…

Well this was the case in this situation! I opened the file in another editor, added a line of code, and saved it. Then low and behold D.W. opend and was working just fine! Needless to say I will be using Eclipse on PC and Textmate or Coda on my Mac from now on. This is just silly.

Here is the article I fould on this:

http://www.mikepadgett.com/technology/technical/dreamweaver-cs3-crashes-and-wont-start-up-again/