Dreamweaver 8 Complaints
Dreamweaver 8 Complaints
Yes, I know Dreamweaver 9 is coming soon; the feature set is long-since locked. It’s too late. But many of these problems date back to earlier versions of Dreamweaver, and if nothing else, I need to vent a bit. Maybe others have experienced these problems, and maybe someone at Adobe will pay attention where no one at Macromedia did.
Dreamweaver Site Window Issues
- Dreamweaver is constantly generating files with filenames like: e18cc8ad, 4e568d08, 45fa4af6, 6db74297, 793d81d4, 7ca438b5, dceca0da, 0bb2a5d9, 02fe8ce8, etc. I have 34 of these in my trash right now. These are the only files without suffixes in a site; I don’t know why these can’t be deleted on Quit, or deleted automatically, if indeed they must be created in the first place.
- Deleting files from the keyboard usually stops working partway through an editing session. Once it fails the first time, it won’t start working again until Dreamweaver is Quit and relaunched.
- “Select all checked out files” has, to my knowledge, never selected all checked out files. There are always stragglers. Specifically, it seems to ignore any files in closed folders in the Files window. Either rename the command “Irritatingly Select some random checked-out files”, delete the command, or fix it. Please.
- Moving files around within the site window sometimes fails to update links to those files, even if it prompts to update links (and you agree).
- When “rubber-banding” to select a target (e.g. a link or an image), the file you’re working in sometimes doesn’t pop back in front of the site window. Sometimes it will, though. This is a new ‘feature’ in DW8. The best part is figuring out which of the seven “index.php” files listed at the bottom of the Window menu is the one you were working on (BBEdit manages to helpfully show the filepath in the menu; why can’t Dreamweaver?)
- DW is supposed to check for remote changes when you open the local copy of the file but, inexplicably, sometimes it does not, causing other users’ changes to be deleted. This can, and has been, disastrous.
- Some sites refuse to close folders in the Site window; this may be associated with the presence of .flv files (see QuickTime screen-capture below):
- The “Open With…” contextual menu NEVER remembers that Photoshop or BBEdit exist (although it doesn’t have trouble remembering FireWorks), and will complain that there isn’t enough memory to open BBEdit (which is typically already open, and my current system has 2 GB of RAM). This has been an irritance since, I dunno, Dreamweaver 1.2?
- Using Expos?ɬ
