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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 crashing on startup and close

For a long time, I have had problems with Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 crashing at the close of the program. I had never had a problem with Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 crashing at startup until the other day. I surmise that Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 had closed and crashed as it usually did, but this time it wrote an invalid or corrupt Site Cache file. It took me a few hours to remove all parts of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 from my system, but I finally found the corrupt site cache file in users/{username}/library/application support/macromedia/common/8/Sites/

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8 Responses to “Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 crashing on startup and close”

craig Says:
November 2nd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
thank you for saving me hours of troubleshooting!!!
Joe White Says:
March 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Thank you! Saved a lot of hassle! Now, if we can just reconstruct the site info, since he didn’t seem to have it saved anywhere…don’t know of a way to reconstruct it from the old site pref file, do you?
Stephen James Says:
March 4th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
@ Joe No sorry, I don’t. The corrupted files listed above are a cache of the site preferences.
melsteve Says:
March 17th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Bryan Salminen Says:
August 9th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
You saved me soooooooo much time. Thanks for your help. You ROCK!
Phillip Says:
September 30th, 2009 at 10:48 am
For those of you on Vista, you can find the same site cache in:

users/”username”/AppData/Roaming/Macromedia/Dreamweaver 8/Configuration/SiteCache/

If you delete these caches, it also fixes the crashing.
Stephen Smith Says:
January 20th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Dear All,

Thanks for your help on this. I tried all of the above but found that Dreamweaver was still crashing. I deleted the following file and this has sorted the problem:
User // Library // Application Support // Macromedia // Dreamweaver 8 // Configuration // MacFileCache-30AD751B.dat

Hope this helps someone else in a similar situation!!
ss
Duncan McFarlane Says:
September 23rd, 2010 at 10:44 am
Thanks for this.

First I took out the “site file” but found (unsurprisingly) all preferences for all my sites were trashed. It would of taken a little time to restore them.

As i knew which site was causing the crashes I found the lines, I opened the “site file” in text edit and found which lines directly related to the site causing the crashes, and then just deleted those lines. By the way before doing this I made a copy of the “site file” in case anything went wrong.

I restarted Dreamweaver and found preferences were restored for all sites and the only ones missing were those for the problem site. I then just had to re-add this site in the Site Manager rather than all of them.

Thanks everyone for helping me get to the start of the problem.

Duncan