this is portable

First off, I need to say that this is not meant to be a blog all about bugs. It’s just been that kind of week! (I’ve also just been picked up by mxna so, I feel the need to point that out.)

Now, about the Dreamweaver CS3 crashing…

What was happening:
Dreamweaver suddenly quit on me mid-editing a handful of times. After three times, I couldn’t get the app to start up again. All I got was the start up screen for a few seconds and then, nothing. Restart my machine… still nothing.

What fixed it:
After a lot of frustration and re-installing and grumbling, a very helpful co-worked found this link . I had a CSS file in the last defined site I was working on who’s file size was exactly 8K. That was what was stopping the app from even launching.

Opening the CSS file in question and adding a comment line to bump the file size up to 9K fixed it all.

If you’re into all the details:
Dreamweaver CS3 running on a PC with XP
Windows logged the following error: Faulting application dreamweaver.exe, version 9.0.0.3481, faulting module msvcr80.dll, version 8.0.50727.762, fault address 0×000144d8.