Dreamweaver FTP works -- Solution!
Dear friends:
I spoke to Dreamweaver technical support at length about
their FTP. We went through the configuration process point
by point. And we discovered the glitch. The FTP in
Dreamweaver MX 6.1 (and perhaps also in the new
Dreamweaver MX 2004) is configured by default with
Design Notes (Click on Advanced under Edit Site).
Apparently, this causes problems on some FTP sites by
trying to create a folder online and thereby crippling the
FTP. Solution: Under Design Notes, UNcheck "Maintain
Design Notes" and click on "Clean up". Also make sure
"Upload Design Notes for sharing" is also unchecked (it will
be unchecked automatically when you uncheck the first
part). That's it. All day, Dreamweaver's FTP crashed non-
stop UNTIL we unchecked this option. From that moment
on, Dreamweaver's FTP has been working fine (Task
Manager always shows that "Dreamweaver is RUNNING"
instead of "Dreamweaver is not responding" (as was the
case before.
I thought this critical detail might prove useful to others
who use Dreamweaver, and that probably means a great number of web designers.
As for Go Live 6 and their flaky FTP client, it always
connected but could not get a file listing and therefore could
not synchronize its files, etc. Whether there is a similar
issue in GoLive 6 I don't know. If I find out, I'll let you know.
Thanks again and I hope my experience will help others.
Benjamin
