Why Can I Not Change My Menus?

[digitalpacman]

I'm trying to alter my menus in dreeamweaver using the menus.xml file as I was
directed.

I can change it, rename it, delete it, break it, everything. Nothing does
ANYTHING to dreamweaver. Even with system restarts. I've tried renaming the
file to force dreamweaver to make a new one, nothing works.

All I did was find a menu item that I could easily locate, I choose the main
menu bar. I choose File > Open Recent Reopen documents on startup

I changed the NAME to "Open Recent Docccccuments On Startup"

Then I opened dreamweaver, no change. I reset. No change. I deleted the file.
No change. I replaced it. No change.

Whats going on!

[Randy Edmunds]

Be sure that you are editing the menus.xml file (or any file) in the
User Configuration folder, not the Application Configuration folder.

There are 2 reason for this:

1. Files in the User config folder override files in the App config
folder, and DW copies menus.xml to the User config folder by default.

2. If you change the App config file, then it's harder (or impossible)
to get back to the default configuration if things go haywire. Always
copy to the User config folder and edit there. Then, simply del;eting
the User config folder returns DW to the original state.

This TechNote explains the difference between the 2 Configuration folders:

[url]http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16420[/url]

HTH,
Randy

> I'm trying to alter my menus in dreeamweaver using the menus.xml file as I was
> directed.
>
> I can change it, rename it, delete it, break it, everything. Nothing does
> ANYTHING to dreamweaver.

[digitalpacman]

Thanks,

I wish the developers were smart enough to put the PATH of the file you should
edit in their help. They simply say "menus.xml" so I did a search in the
Dreamweaver/ folder for it, found it, edited it, and went AHH

[Randy Edmunds]

> I wish the developers were smart enough to...

Ouch!

Randy Edmunds
Principal Software Engineer
Dreamweaver Development