daveb
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dreamweaver sucks (catastrophic failure) <br /> · Nov 25, 02:17 pm
i’m a “web developer” and i use dreamweaver every day. it’s like the hammer and screwdriver of my trade all rolled into one.
however, it crashes on me quite regularly. that’s frustrating, but i ask a lot from it, and i can’t complain too badly at the occasional collapse. on occasion – sometimes as often as twice a month, it crashes so badly that i have to reinstall the program. doing so often destroys all my personal settings and the layout i have set up for the application.
macromedia has been producing Dreamweaver for 7 years now, and i’ve been using it since version 2. i like the interface and the tools that macromedia has put at the developer’s disposal.
however, all the good parts of the program are heavily outweighted by my monthly, or bi-monthly reinstallation and setup. That’s about 1-2 hours of my day, and it most often occurs during my busiest time of the week. murphy’s law and all that.
i would think that after 7 versions have been produced they would be able to produce a robust application. some of you may be thinking that it’s not possible – but i use bbedit on my macintosh for HTML development, and to my knowledge it has never – not once – crashed on me. it’s a complex application with FTP and SFTP built in, but it’s robust.
now granted, bbedit is up to version 8, but i don’t think it’s too much to ask that a product that i’ve spent over a thousand dollars on – doesn’t suck.
i’ve got all the patches, i’ve read and posted on all the forums, but still haven’t found any solution to this problem.
this month i had an additional quirk thrown into the mix. dreamweaver crapped out, wouldn’t get past the splash screen, so i had to reinstall. the first step in that process is to uninstall the application. i popped open my windows uninstall utitlity and selected dreamweaver – a process i’m quite familiar with, and hit uninstall. about 1/5th of the way through i got the catastrophic failure above.
now i know you tech-heads out there are going to tsk-tsk me and say i should have uninstalled my components first. however, dreamweaver is so flakey for me, and i reinstall so often, i don’t use any. or snippets, or any other of the good features of dreamweaver – as the application requires such constant refurbishing.
so i had to uninstall and restart my computer about 5 times before i could finally rid myself of the buggy version, and install a fresh copy. then i had to go about setting up my preferences and getting back to client work.
so after 3 hours of wasted time, i’ve decided that at the first available opportunity, i’m going to “switch back” to mac, and use bbedit, cssedit and fugu, and be a lot happier.
now i just have to save my pennies for a new mac.
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