Dreamweaver Crashes

fatal exceptions in Dreamweaver MX driving me nuts!

[fiveofhearts]

I love Dreamweaver MX, but for some reason it's been very unstable on my Dell Pentium 4 laptop running Windows XP Pro. Every 15 minutes or so, I get a error: "Dreamweaver has encountered a fatal exception. Dreamweaver will now terminate." and the program crashes. This usually happens when saving, opening, or closing files, and sometimes when switching between files in the Dreamweaver desktop.

It is a licensed retail version (education) packaged with Studio MX. Macromedia's support is expensive and not very helpful.

I've tried re-installing in safe mode, with virusscan disabled, everything, and I can't get rid of the regualar crashes. It's really cutting into my productivity. Any suggestions?

[mat]

Probably won't help, but we had a problem when DW tried to open a page/site that was calling an external file that was somehow missing in the local site. Ours was a .js file, but I guess the same might apply for other types (CSS, any includes, who knows?).

Our problem was our standard new document template had a call to the .js file built in, and, if we created a new site and forgot to copy over the .js file locally, DW would fail to find said file when opening the site/page, and crap out.

Might point you towards something, hopefully.

[cornwall]

My DW goes bananas every 6 months or so, and I solve the problem by re-loading

Try un-installing your current program altogether, then re-loading from scratch

[geoapa]

Have you tried installing the patches?
[macromedia.com...]

[sean]

I'll second Cornwall. Once you have a fatal error, chances are good it will continue. Re-installing is the only surefire remedy, but remember you can export the site definitions and import them to the fresh install of DW.

[SlyGuy]

fiveofhearts,

As you can see, you're not the only one who has encountered problems with the Dreamweaver Fatal Exeption. :)

As Cornwall mentioned, it seems to happen in spurts, every 6 - 8 months. I often get the crash when I try to re-size the bottom of a table.

It was horrible in Dreamweaver 4, a lot more frequent. I find the problem is not as serious with MX.

The only advice I can give echoes what has been said before: re-install. Cleans everything up.

HTH

- Chad

[mossimo]

Hi fiveofhearts

I have had the same problems and like a few mentioned

Try un-installing your current program altogether, then re-loading from scratch

this can solve the problem.

But there are a few known issues/bugs that occur if the situation is right.

Please describe what type of files you are working with and the code format such as ASP/HTML/JS ect?
Are you using includes in your documents?