telophase | Dreamweaver ugh

I've got my copy of Dreamweaver more-or-less beat into submission, but now, when I go to open a document, it's inexplicably started opening up at the same directory every time. What's annoying is that it's not the directory I usually use, so I have to navigate out of that to the one I use every single time. I can't find a place in Dreamweaver that tells it where to go first when opening documents - anyone out there know?

I don't quite remember what it used to open as - it was before the Christmas break and I've slept since then - but I think it jsut started at the top of the directory hierarchy.

And no smug posts from people saying they use Notepad. I like that Dreamweaver closes tags for me, because it's (a) less typing for me and (b) cuts way down on the number of stupid mistakes I make from mistyping the closing tags. Plus (c), Dreamweaver templates, so I don't have to change every.single.page on this other site I maintain when there's a change in navigation (I'm stuck on a server that won't allow includes).

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Really easy way to open a document in specific in Dreamweaver (the way I always do it, so I can't really answer your question) is to right-click the document, then select "Edit in Dreamweaver."

It takes just as long to navigate to the primary directory I work in because it's on a server that is not my computer. I have to click through several directories to get there to right-click. I'd like to tell it to automagically open that directory, which would cut down on most of my clicking.

It *used* to just open in whatever directory I last used, which I could deal with.

Hmmm. *fires up Dreamweaver, pokes at it*

The only way I could recreate what you're describing (I think) was if I had a Site defined in Dreamweaver, in which case it would default to that Site's local directory. If no Sites defined, it would just open the last directory I opened from. 6.6a

Could be someone's buggered the permissions on the computer you're using. I know school/work tech people sometimes do that "for your own good/protection."

...Ooh dreeeeeeeeeeeeeeam weaver
I believe you can get me through the night
Ooh dreeeeeeeeeeeeeeam weaver
I believe we can reach the morning liiiiiiiiiiiight...

*runs away*

I am all loves for teh Dreamweaver. It's nice, clean, friendly coding. The WYSIWYG editor ain't bad either. I also use it at work me ownself, so I'll try an help.

When I open my Dreamweaver, I have the option of look at folders/files on my hard drive, or defined "Sites". The difference between the two being Sites use real names in the navigator pane, instead of drive letters.

Mine tends to open at the top of my site heirarchy, every time. I don't know of a setting to change that, but I do know that in the "Manage Sites" there's several (advanced) settings for a site that can affect how the Files window behaves. Namely, I learned to turn OFF the auto-refresh, because it caused DW to go into conniptions whenever I saved a file. Yick.

Hope this starts to help...let me know more detail if you can.

Yeah, that helped - I had the other website saved as a site (I don't remember doing that, presumably it was for the templates) and defining the webserver I normally work on as a site started it opening that one. Yay.

And in between the last post I made ehre and this one, I went to the admin settings and upgraded Firefox and now it's got little red lines under all my misspelled words. I think I need to beat it into submission.

(I also figured out how to set DW to show all types of files automatically, instead of just .htm, because I work more with ASP and there's one particular configuration file that I use all the time and is quite annoying to have to set it to show all types before I can open it. But no longer! yay!)

Thankyou!

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Completes your tags. Looks and works a lot like Dreamweaver, yet free and a lot easier to use.

Just saying. =)

I've spent three years using Dreamweaver, and except for things here and there I've got it pretty much under control. The idea of downloading and learning something else doesn't sound especially appealing, no matter how easy it is. :)

... no includes?

Wow.

You mentioned ASP... could you use that for includes?

This is on a different server than the ASP coding. :) It's for the TCU Staff Assembly website, which is on the server where they put all the random TCU sites where they can't be sure the person maintaining the website isn't an idiot, so there's just about nothing allowed, no includes, no ASP. Except, inexplicably, FrontPage extensions.

Which is driving me insane because I know nothing about them and the script for the comment forms uses them. Only it's somehow b0rked and while the script submits, it also throws an error so the submitter thinks it's not gone through. And it's not protected by any form tricks against spambots because I can't change anything on that form without screwing up the script. I've got a question in *twice* to the server admin about this, but he's busy ignoring me.

And what's even MORE annoying is that one of the forms is the form that allows employees to engage in anonymous whistleblowing, so therefore as long as the spambots are hitting it, I *have* to look at EACH AND EVERY SINGLE RESPONSE to make sure it's not a real person submitting it, and I can't take the form down. I've got 1500 in the folder built up over the past month that I've been hoping will get looked at by the Spam Fairy.

Wow, that's asinine. I'd suggest putting the form submissions through Akismet, but there again your server is limiting you. Any chance of moving it elsewhere?

There may be. But I won't know unless my email gets answered, arg!

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