Dreamweaver crashes / freezes in OS X

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Dreamweaver crashes / freezes in OS X

I have an Apple Macbook Pro and I run Adobe CS4, which includes Adobe Dreamweaver CS4.

There are a many times the program will lock up or freeze for 30 seconds or more when you click on a drop down menu at the top such as File, Edit, View, etc.

I am running Snow Leopard OS X on my Mac. My Macbook Pro is approximately 10 months old with a 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memory.

I had read somewhere a while back of others that were experiencing similar issues.

I know this could be a Snow Leopard OS X issue, but all of my other software runs great.

All software is updated in Adobe and Mac.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dan

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Dec 16, 2009 1:40 PM

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Answer 1

KJK555

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Dec 16, 2009 1:52 PM in response to troyrecreation

I would suggest contacting Adobe or digging through their forums. While CS4 is officially supported
in Snow Leopard, be sure you are using the latest (10.6.2) update, as many claim that many Adobe CS4
software issues, directly or indirectly, have been addressed in 10.6.2.

Kj ♘

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Answer 2

KJK555

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Dec 16, 2009 2:07 PM in response to troyrecreation

I just remembered something. Check the permission on the Adobe preference files in your Home
directory (~/Library/Preferences). At some point in time (after the 10.6.2 update) my user ownership
Adobe prefs. got changed to "root". I had to manually change ownership back to my User name
(account). It wasn't just Adobe prefs., some other prefs. were affected as well. I don't know if that
is the problem causing your issues, but it may something be worth checking out.
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Kj ♘

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