Taking FOREVER to save a file

[Murray *TMM*]

John:

> working off sites on a local server

There have been too many warnings posted here to count that this is likely
to be a problem. You need to work locally. Some can get away with it
because their networks are simple ones - I can with my peer W2K/WXP/Mac LAN,
but many, many others cannot.

Do you have the same problem with files in a local site (really local to
your CPU)?

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"John_Saunders" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I am using DW MX 6.1 on Win Xp and am working off sites on a local server

(off a network drive). Why does it literally take 3 minutes each time I
press save? The entire program locks up during this time and sometimes locks
up my IE.

>
> This is extremely frustrating because if you add up all the time wasted

whenever I hit save it ends up being several hours a week. Is Dreamweaver
not made for companys who have several people that work on a site? Not
everyone can put their sites on a local drive because there may be more than
one person who works on the site from the local network.

>
> Is this problem ever going to be fixed? I'm starting to just wonder if I

should go back to using WS_FTP and Notepad because I am sick and tired of
this network problem and Dreamweaver MX. What a waste of money.

>
>

[John_Saunders webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

>>There have been too many warnings posted here to count that this is likely
to be a problem. You need to work locally. Some can get away with it
because their networks are simple ones - I can with my peer W2K/WXP/Mac LAN,
but many, many others cannot.

Yeah, I did a few searches and found many others complaining about this. I am shocked that Macromedia hasn't bothered to come out with a patch to fix this. It seems like DW MX is anything but a professional program. It's like it's geared more towards people who just do this for their personal pages and not for a corporate environment running a network.

It's just a real pain to have to have everyone working on a site to have a local copy of files which are never going to be the same with each person making changes to it all the time.

>>Do you have the same problem with files in a local site (really local to your CPU)?

No, just when working off the network drive. Unfortunately, this is not an option. I guess I'm going to have to look into using another application since DW only works off local drives.

John

[darrel]

> Yeah, I did a few searches and found many others complaining about this.

> I am shocked that Macromedia hasn't bothered to come out with a patch to

fix this.

Like many things these days, they don't consider it a bug. Rather, it's
simply unsupported functionality.

We had a simply Appletalk over TCIP/IP network and was stunned at the
inability of DW to handle it. Photoshop can, why can't a simple text editor
do OK with it? Who knows.

The solution, which was a pain, was to set up two site definitions. One used
the LAN server as the REMOTE and local HDs as the LOCAL. The other used the
LAN server as the LOCAL and the WEB SERVER as the REMOTE. So, you'd use one
to edit, and the other to upload. Yes. A pain.

-Darrel

[Alan Ames]

two things-

if you want to continue using a network drive- check the way you are
mounting/connecting to it.

check this technote:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/mndaslrf.htm[/url]

Also- see if any anti-virus software is scanning incoming/outgoing files for
those folders, on your machine or the network drive.

Second- when people in group work setups keep local files on their HD- what
they normally do is define a local site to within their workstation, and the
"remote" as the network drive. With checkin/checkout enabled.
Checkin/checkout prevents overwrites or collisions (for those using
Dreamweaver- it uses .LCK lockfiles to control this. Other editing
applications probably will ignore the .LCK files)

then create a new site defintion (for final publishing, not working) that
has the local site defined as the network drive- and the remote as the real
remote site.

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[Alan Ames]

Don't know all the ins and outs of why it can work for some and not others-
but unlike most other applications, dreamweaver doesn't open and work with
just one file at a time-- such as an image opened in Photoshop.

It does site management functions- and a lot of folder scanning while in
use. It's also constantly calculating relative paths of files to make/manage
links.

> Photoshop can, why can't a simple text editor
> do OK with it? Who knows.

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