OK. I thought I'd summarize this for those people who were just as
perplexed as I. For months, I had one site (of many) that when I tried
to open any HTML file, it would crash Dreamweaver on Windows XP (I do
not know if other platforms are affected, but I'd think so).
The following entry (or some variation thereof) would be found in the
"Application Log" of Windows Event Viewer:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 12/6/2007
Time: 2:40:15 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ****
Description:
Faulting application dreamweaver.exe, version 9.0.0.3481, faulting
module msvcr80.dll, version 8.0.50727.163, fault address 0x000142f1.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 64 72 65 ure dre
0018: 61 6d 77 65 61 76 65 72 amweaver
0020: 2e 65 78 65 20 39 2e 30 .exe 9.0
0028: 2e 30 2e 33 34 38 31 20 .0.3481
0030: 69 6e 20 6d 73 76 63 72 in msvcr
0038: 38 30 2e 64 6c 6c 20 38 80.dll 8
0040: 2e 30 2e 35 30 37 32 37 .0.50727
0048: 2e 31 36 33 20 61 74 20 .163 at
0050: 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 30 offset 0
0058: 30 30 31 34 32 66 31 0d 00142f1.
0060: 0a .
OK. Great. If you have this error occurring while starting up
Dreamweaver, you may have site caching set to be "automatically"
recreated. If you can open Dreamweaver, but it crashes upon opening an
HTML file (which is what happened to me), I think I've got it figured
out.
Open the HTML file in a Text Editor (Textpad/Notepad/Wordpad -
anything but dreamweaver) that you were editing and note every and all
CSS files you may have linked inside. Note that this could be from
your templates, linked via an asset or somesuch methodology.
Once you've compiled that list, use windows explorer to navigate your
source files and search for just "*.css" files. Then look at the
details. If windows reports anything around 8 KB or multiples thereof,
open the file in a text editor, and add a comment like:
/** Changing the file size */
Save the CSS file.
Then try to re-launch dreamweaver and/or open the file.
This may seem totally out there, but believe me - after spending 2
months trying to get this resolved, I came across this thread and just
said to myself "hey, wha have I got to loose?" And, lo and behold,
things work again. It's mindboggling and stupid. I would think that
with the updates being sent by Adobe pretty much every other week,
this one would certainly be one to look out for. Or at least have it
DOCUMENTED SOMEPLACE!!!!
Silly me, I have to go to Google groups to figure out this mess. After
having spent hours and hours uninstalling, reinstalling, updating,
upgrading, mucking with the registry, changing folder names,
uninstalling/reinstalling SetPoint/virus scanners, creating site
caches, clearing user preferences, and many more time-consuming tasks,
it was changing the file size of a file!!!!
Yuck!