I have the EXACT same problem. I thought I was crazy - at least I know I'm not alone.

As mentioned, I try to select the folder for my site and it selects the one folder above the previous. Display below shows that issue in DW CS3 part of CS3 Master Collection on Vista Enterprise x86: (-- the arrow is not that good because I'm using school laptop TouchPad)

Display below shows that issue in DW CS4 (by itself) I just installed on my Windows 7 RTM x64Bit:

I probably never came accross the issue before since I use to type out the locations before. Ever since I became "clicky clicky," it's been bugging me.

Do you have any ideas as to what the issue is?

LK

I am having a related but slightly different problem.  When I go to select a root folder for a new site, I get an error message saying that it is located inside one of my other website root folders (I create and manage several) even though it really is not.  The error message says that if I go ahead, it will cause synchronization problems and in fact it does.  I am using Vista 64bit.  Has anyone else encountered this problem?  Any suggestions?

@Weezie

That is the same issue; the site definition that you wanted to create is within the same root as one of the other sites that you created before/after the service pack update.

@Winters

It doesn't matter which folder/user: Once it has been updated to the service pack, its global.

I have the same problem when I use Find/Replace for an entire folder... when I select a forum, it selects the folder above it.

I'm having this issue too. VERY annoying.

Using Win 7 64-bit. CS4.

Is there a fix? Hello, Adobe?

I've tried everything. Nothing works.

I agree. The silence from Adobe on this issue is disappointingly deafening.

Looking at the Updaters page, it seems that Adobe has never released any updates for Dreamweaver for Windows.

Macromedia were far more responsive to issues like this when they owned Dreamweaver (e.g. 8.0.1 and 8.0.2 were released back in Macromedia's day).

Unfortunately, when something of this level is left unaddressed for so long, it reduces confidence. The workaround of typing a location instead of using the file dialog was good advice for a week or two while a solution would (assumedly) be put in place. But it's not an acceptable "fix" for a broken file dialog, and this is one long wait.

I deal with this issue 5-10 times every day in my work and it's a serious pain. I must have manually checked for Dreamweaver updates 20 times over the past several months, certain that I'd see this fixed any day.

Since this is a known problem, it would be nice to hear a status update.

2 add to my last post I noticed that when I defined my site it also added my shortcuts, but what I noticed when I removed the site and went to mange sites and selected the folder again it wrote in the folder hierarchy correctly never seen this before.

I think most people are having the issue.

I don't think a CS4 patch will be issued.

I suspect all Adobe engineers are focussed on delivering CS5 sometime this year.

Yep agreed.

If Macromedia still owned DW, patches would have been released months ago.

There's actually an FAQ covering both Win 7 and Vista on this issue

Problem selecting local root folder in Vista & Windows 7

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/478327

It's a workaround, not a fix.

I discovered another possible workround, perhaps someone else can verify it.  I also discovered another area that may be affected by this bug.  First the workaround:

• Select the site folder as usual, and verify that the path is incomplete.
• Cancel out of the site dialog
• Don't exit the site manager, but just click New again, then browse to the local folder. You'll see that you're already in the folder you want and this time it will take.

This may not be any easier than tying or going in one folder deeper to begin with, but ti may provide a clue to what's really wrong. 

For the other issue, so far I've read about various areas that appear to be affected by this bug.  There is the replacing of images mentioned in a recent post, and I've also read that some extensions have trouble because of it. 

One more may be when you go to insert a div tag where you've already defined the class.  In the dialog in the drop down I select the class and its parent class gets selected instead.  I have to select the one I want a second time for it to take.  This may be a different issue of course, but the similarities are suspicious.

Having said all that, I really don't know why there hasn't been a patch for this yet.  The folder browse API for windows is pretty basic and has been around ever since 3.1!  

That's exactly right. However, I have no confidence that when a Windows 7 service pack comes out, it won't render CS5 a pain to use until we get to pay for CS6.

Leaving known bugs out there for an entire product cycle is troubling. There was no effort made to correct any bugs at all since the intial release of Dreamweaver CS4. I only know this because there has not been one single update.