It seems as though the cause of the European clock change crashes on Dreamweaver CS3 is a corrupted file called WinFileCache-[random_numbers].dat. On Windows XP, it’s located at C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration. On Vista, it’s at C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration. Simply delete the file and restart Dreamweaver. This still hasn’t been confirmed as the definitive solution, but it seems to work on most systems. It certainly fixed the problem for me.
[Update]: This has now been confirmed as the solution. Dreamweaver creates a new version of the file as soon as you relaunch the program.
October 29th, 2007
The Dreamweaver forums have been ablaze with reports of simple PHP and ASP code causing Dreamweaver CS3 to crash. I have tested many of the sample code snippets, and can confirm that CS3 is crashing on Windows XP and Vista, but not on Mac OS X. It also affects the PHP code in my books.
The cause of the crashes appears to be the clock change following the end of summer time in Europe. Since the United States is still on daylight saving time until 4 November, American users have reported that they are crash-free—for the time being, at least. It’s not clear whether it’s an Adobe bug or one caused by the Windows operating system, but there’s little point getting into the blame game. What’s needed is a fix—and quickly.
The temporary solution appears to be to change your system clock back to any time before 2 am on 28 October. Alternatively, use Dreamweaver 8.0.2, which isn’t affected. Neither solution is ideal, but Adobe has been alerted to the problem, and hopefully a permanent solution can be found soon.
[Update]: The solution is to delete WinFileCache-********.dat, which was apparently corrupted by the clock change.
October 29th, 2007