DW8 Bug (IE7!) – FTP Username and Password Lost
I found that many of my friends with new laptops were complaining that their DW8 wasn’t remembering their FTP information for some of their sites. I told them they probably just forgot to click the “remember password” and dismissed the problem.
I found that I only lost the username and password to the last site that was open. If I didn’t get the password and I tried to connect to another site, I lost the username and password to that site as well. It started to really bother me as I had to frequently re-find the passwords to many of my sites. I decided to find a solution.
And so I did! I found that the problem is usually caused by DW8 and IE7 running on the same machine. A weird bug, but a bug nonetheless. An easy solution was to get the Dreamweaver 8.0.2 Updater, which totally solved my problem.
That totally made sense – most all of new laptops come with Windows Vista, which comes with IE7. I had held off before because I knew I needed IE6 for web development and so had never encountered the error. Well, there’s your solution!
If you want the whole Macromedia Support issue on the topic, click here.
Hope that helps.
-Kerry
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Yes, Multiple IE is great, I’ve been using it for a while now.
I have IE6, IE7, Firefox 3 & Chrome
Thanks for the advice… I was getting pretty mad with having to enter my username and password all the time…
As for needing IE6 for web development, you may want to consider installing http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE – It’s fantastic, you can view your sites from IE 3.0 to IE 6.0
Cool topic!
Hahah. I read the first paragraph of this post and dismissed it yesterday because I had never had that problem. It just so happens that yesterday, I installed IE7… and today I lost my first password. So here I am again to get the solution.
Thanks