I don't get it but sometimes programs that you use day in and day out just bug out. For me, Dreamweaver CS3 started crashing when I opened particular Coldfusion (.CFM) files. I could almost predict which ones would make it crash (files calling functions from other files). In some cases, I could get the file open but when I went to change some code, Dreamweaver would crash again. This made no sense to me and a lot of online sources said this had to do with the installation but I didn't believe it.

The solution for me, thanks to Martin Perry, was to delete the winfilecache.+\.dat file which can be found by going here:

From contentimgs

On Windows Xp, the file is at:-

[drive]:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver
9\Configuration

On Windows Vista, you can find it in:-

[drive]:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration
or accessible via windows explorer in
Desktop\[username]\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver 9\Configuration

I recommend just deleting it if you have it. It's a small file and you can put it back if you need too. I actually tried putting the file back to see if I could recreate my problem for documentation purposes but it I couldn't get it to came back. I figure that's a good thing.

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