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Hi! I'm Dan Murfitt and I'm a Systems Manager and Web Developer from the UK specialising in PHP/MySQL applications, Drupal content management platform and CodeIgniter web application framework.
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This really is one of the strangest software bugs I've come across!
The Problem
Dreamweaver crashes and won't open again. When you try and open Dreamweaver it just closes straight away, with nothing more than a glimpse of the splash screen.
The Solution
One of the CSS files in the site you were working on has a file size which is a multiple of 8kb (mine was 24kb). You can try anything; rebooting, reinstalling, but Dreamweaver won't play ball if the file is still there. You need open the CSS file in another text editor and add a few dummy lines of comment text to increase the file size slightly; you should then find Dreamweaver will open again normally.
Thanks to David Powers for this. Please feel free to leave any comments below.
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hai Dan,
I tried doing same , by increasing the file size, but still DW is not opening.
cheers,
Mahesh
Thanks for this - I just
Thanks for this - I just experienced the problem and found this post which help me resolve it.
However, my problem was not the size of the style, it was the fact that one of my lines was terminated with a single quote instead of a semi colon. See below:
background: url(../images/small-prod-arrow-orange.png) top left no-repeat'
Once I removed this line via a text editor, DW opened with no problems.
Hey i had the exact same
Hey i had the exact same problem, mine was at 26kb when the styles.css kept crashing. Then i tried out your method and it works now (fingers crossed). I created a new html file and renamed it as a css file, then i copied and pasted the old 'crash' code into there, and added extra dummy text to make it to 28kb. I took out the old css file out of the folder.
Very wierd
Wow, thanks so much for that, mine was 16k. Saved me a lot of trouble as I just inserted my Master Collection to reinstall. I owe you a pint! ;-)
Hehe its cool, glad that it
Hehe its cool, glad that it worked for you too. Is weird how it works but luckily there was an easy solution.
I just had this problem too -
I just had this problem too - my CSS file was 24kb, tried changing it to 25kb but still wouldn't open. Moved my entire CSS folder outside of the site root and then Dreamweaver opened ok. So then checked my last changes in Notepad and found that I too had a line ending with a single quote mark. Changed that to a semi colon and moved the CSS folder back - all opened fine.
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