Dreamweaver closes straight after opening

Wed, 10/09/2008 - 18:29 — Dan

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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Wed, 01/07/2009 - 12:02 — Mahesh (not verified)

dreamweavercloses

hai Dan,

I tried doing same , by increasing the file size, but still DW is not opening.

cheers,
Mahesh

Fri, 21/08/2009 - 08:51 — Kris (not verified)

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.

Tue, 26/01/2010 - 12:00 — Jo (not verified)

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.

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