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.
MANY THANKS from me also. Dumping WinFileCache-[xxxxx].dat cured my problem too.
I thought I knew all the Dreamweaver “emergency recovery” tricks, but this is a real stinker.
I have both DW8 and CS3 installed on the same system and the same page that crashes CS3 on load, works perfectly in DW8.
Very confusing. THANKS AGAIN!!!!! and back to work.
Thanks for this fix. Worked for me on Vista.
Yesterday, I was going to reinstall CS3 – glad I didn’t.
Worked like a charm.
We changed our time the weekend before last and I was having various issues with pages to the point where I realized it was all the pages I had edited prior to the time change in the US.
For those that are worried about deleting files just rename the file “old_”. Which is exactly what I did and resolved the problem.
Thanks!!!
Alan
THANK YOU!
Many thanks for this brilliant solution of this stupid bug!!!
OOOO MY GAAAAAWD,
As the rest of the Congrats, this was truly a life saver, I was ready to put my head through the wall until somehow I came across this post. Holi crap lol still mind bottled over what the cause was. Thank you ever so much.
Peter,
Canada
Holy f’n mother of pearl… I only spent about 2 days on this fix but thank goodness I found this. I cleared it, and boom the menu now works again, magically… Magically delicious… And the 2 days was worth it now that I’ve found the cure…
Thanks all, especially David Powers… Now I know why I buy your books.
It worked. THANK YOU!
Thank you soooooo much for the Acer/Dreamweaver patch fix you mentioned in comment 38. I’ve been trying to get CS3 working on my Acer laptop for 8 months now, and couldn’t work out why it wouldn’t work when it was working fine on my HP desktop. I can finally do some coding outside in the warm sun now.
Brilliant it worked with a freeze on the splash screen with Dreamweaver CS5!!! Nice one, thanks……