Do you guys also have CS4 installed?

I also have CS4 installed at the moment, but have tried with it installed, without it installed, everything

....

The CPs & Adobe's response reminds me of  BP's response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Blame everyone else and don't take resposibilty for their own failings.

And why isn't someone from Adobe monitoring these forums These forums and others are where the problems are discussed and where praise would be issued by their users  to Adobe if they knew someone was listening. After sale service or lack thereof is what can bring down a company or make the company a hero with it's customers.

This morning I posted a link to this discussion in the forum you mentioned, so now we wait (and in the meantime use Coda instead (and maybe stick with it)).

The above helpful to anyone? Dreamweaver is still running smoothly on my Mac after a full day of coding. Have reinstated all my settings, so it better not crash again... *skull & crossbones*

nope, didn't help here (10.6.3 with FileVault activated) - I even installed the HTML5 Pack (AdobeDreamweaver-11.0-All-Update.dmg)

I have been testing Dreamweaver CS5 with network accounts.  We have nfs shared accounts.  Instead of trying to find the initial files required, I symlinked the entire users Library to a local location as a test.  The application still doesn't open.  So symlinking clearly isn't going to work this time.

Each time I talk to anyone at Adobe about their performance of software and network home accounts, disappointingly they never appear to be interested.  Unfortunately, they appear to still be living in 1980-90 where everyone logs in locally.   Adobe software is the only industry standard software that we use that has shown to suffer this badly on networks.  Not only should an account be a local account, but Adobe still insist that all files must be local (including not using Firewire drives).  With the size of files now, this is becoming very unrealistic, not to mention that local files aren't backed up or protected by being stored on raids; another reason why we run network home accounts.

We can only hope that they will provide an update that will get Dreamweaver working, both on network accounts and with Filevault.

I have had some success and failures with this.

I am using Snow Leopard 10.6.3

FileVault is not being used.

Non admin users with network home directories

Dreamweaver fails to launch as others described here. Changing file permissions on the network home directory did not work. But, forcing local home directory and modifying the locally created folders permissions did work. Creating a local non admin account worked as well. These are not acceptable solutions in our environment. We are a community college with teaching labs and require network based home directories.

We also had this problem with Acrobat 9 pro last year and had to revert to version 8. Hopefully Adobe resolves this problem soon.

yeah, you'll have to keep doing this...

5 times for me up to now.

no, haven't had the time; don't know when I will, there are a lot of files in there. So, if anyone has the opportunity to look into this, i'd be much obliged

I've been having the same problem on a PC with Vista.

If you're running an Acer machine, this fix works:

http://www.egistec.com/oem-acer001/program-update.aspx

Now running fine.

yeah well, as this problem rears its ugly head almost weekly, I have been able to determine a certain trend. Most often it happens when I return from my lunchbreak and wake up my Macbook. After waking up DW is down.

My procedure: I have a current configurations folder named "configuration-replace" which is a copy of a configurations folder of DW as I want it to function. after a crash I delete "configuration", copy "configuration-replace", rename the copy to "configuration" and restart DW. all is well again.

Of course, this cannot be a permanent solution, so I expect Adobe to provide a fix for this. Otherwise I will switch to Coda, as I use DW as a deLuxe code-editor anyway..

If you have FileVault turned off and you're unable to launch Dreamweaver, instead of deleting all of your Dreamweaver CS5 user config files as mentioned in some of the earlier posts, try recreating just the DVADialogPrefs.xml file as described below.

1.  Quit Dreamweaver.

2.  In Mac Finder, browse to this file:

Mac HD/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5/en_US/Configuration/DVADialogPrefs/DVADialogPrefs.xml

3.  Drag DVADialogPrefs.xml to the Mac desktop and rename it to DVADialogPrefsORIGINAL.xml.

4.  Restart Dreamweaver.

David Alcala

Dreamweaver QE

@ajayemm123873

THANK YOU!

... This worked for me also.

I'm running an Acer with Vista as well.

Hey All,

I ran into this same problem and wanted to post my solution which I haven't seen mentioned on here yet.

First of all, I want to give the background of my situation: 

• My OS: OS X  10.5.8 (I know, time to upgrade...)
• FileVault Turned OFF (do not use filevault on this machine)
• Dreamweaver CS5 had been working before.
• Attempted all recommended solutions in this thread (*all of which seem to revolve around going to folders and changing permissions) as well as the official adobe page (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/844/cpsid_84413.html) to no avail.

My Solution:

1. I created a new user account with admin rights (same as my actual account)
2. Logged into new account and confirmed dreamweaver  CS5 launched with no issues
3. went to /Users/<new account>/Library/Application Support/Adobe
4. Modified the permissions of "Dreamweaver CS5" folder to include  read/write privileges for my regular user account
5. Logged out of new account and back into regular account
6. went into finder and replaced the "Dreamweaver CS5" folder from /Users/<regular account >/Library/Application Support/Adobe  WITH the "Dreamweaver CS5"  from /Users/<new account>/Library/Application Support/Adobe. 

cayennecode, I have undertaken experiments like yours. Specifically, I created a new account on my Mac with FileVault not enabled, logged on to the new account, and found that Dreamweaver CS5 worked normally. Then, I enabled FileVault on the new account, logged on again to the new account, and found that Dreamweaver CS5 would not run. Then, I disabled FileVault on that account, logged on yet again, and found that Dreamweaver CS5 had reverted to normal operation.

GET WITH IT Adobe. At the very least post information stating whether you do or do not acknowledge this problem; and if you do, whether you are or are not working on a fix; and if you are, whether you estimate the time you'll need to develop and distribute a fix will be a day, a week, a month, or what.

Yeah well, that's the same solution that I posted some time ago, but there's a better* solution:

1. quit Dreamweaver if still "running" (or something like that..)

2. go to <user>/library/application support/Dreamweaver cs5/en_US/Configuration/DVADialogPrefs/

3. delete or rename the file DVADialogPrefs.xml

4. restart Dreamweaver

5. presto!

This way, you don't need a backup of the Configuration folder so you don't lose your settings.

*just to be clear on this: the only acceptable solution is a fix by Adobe!

Joe9inety - Genius - worked for me. Dreamweaver CS5 was not loading, osX 10.5.8, filevault off. Deleted users/#me#/library/application  users/#me#/library/application support/adobe/dreamweaver cs4 and renamed it back to dreamweaver cs5. Works brilliantly. Finally, after many frustrated hours...

Mate I created a profile here, in order to log in and thank you for this advice.

I bought CS5 today at a shop.

I did a whole heap of permission changes, and thankfully lost *only* 40 minutes, before stumbling onto this thread.

Your fix worked a treat.

Many many thanks.