Anyone use Dreamweaver 8?

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m3mn0n
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Anyone use Dreamweaver 8?

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I've been having this issue with this damn thing since I upgraded from MX.

It constantly erases login/password combos for sites that I remotely connect to via ftp. It does this after I close down the program.

I've found some information about this in the "Known Issues" section of the Adobe site..
Usernames and passwords for your sites must be re-entered
For sites migrated from Dreamweaver MX 2004, you'll need to re-enter the username and password in the Site Definition dialog box before you can connect. This is one-time requirement. We changed the way Dreamweaver encrypts the usernames and passwords used for FTP, SFTP, RDS, and WebDAV connections. We now let the operating system do the encryption.
It says you need to do this only once, yet for me, it's once every time I re-open the program.

And the funny thing is, I've deleted the imported sites and made new ones and it STILL does this.

ARGH! Anyone else by any chance experience this and maybe have found a solution?

I'm so tempted to uninstall this and re-install MX but I love some of the new features this has. It really has come a long way since version 4, which is when I started using this (~'99).
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Post by php3ch0 »

I use dreamweaver 8 and cant say i have had this problem. have you tried the updater from the adobe website
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Post by neophyte »

I'm using DW 8. But I've never had your problem. Are you sure that the file that Dreamweaver is writing to has the proper read write permissions. Is it a user-centric file?
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Post by John Cartwright »

I've had a lot of problems with MX8, although nothing a re-install wouldn't fix.
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I started having this problem several months ago. Re-intsallation did not fix.

I found a way around it:

For some reason it only erases the FTP login name/password on the current site that you're working on. In other words, if you exit Dreamweaver with the current site open, Dreamweaver erases the FTP username/password. To get around this annoying issue, I created a "dummy" site to switch to before closing Dreamweaver. When I open Dreamweaver again next time, I then switch back to the site I was working on and the login settings are always saved.

This is still an annoying this to do everytime I exit dreamweaver, but at least it saves the login info. I have too many sites stored in Dreamweaver to look up the passwords each time!

I hope this gets fixed soon.
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Post by m3mn0n »

Wow, I'll try that.. as the re-install for me also didn't do a damn thing.


edit: it works! seems like it is a bug that just deletes your ftp info for the last active site

I simply select my localhost site before i close and when it reopens, I select an ftp site it actually recalls the ftp info. :)
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Post by Skittlewidth »

I haven't had this problem, but I believe my boss and one of my collegues came up against something similar.

My boss couldn't save any of his passwords in Dreamweaver 8. The support site says it has something to do with IE7, and upgrading Dreamweaver to 8.0.2 using the available patch should solve it.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgeb ... d=3491671c
It doesn't explain why IE7 would interfere but I can only assume its one of the new "security features".

I'm not running IE7 yet, as we need at least one machine in here to test backwards compatibility.
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