Comments on: Exporting Dreamweaver Site Definitions

By: Dru

Dru — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:12:55 +0000

Thanks for this very helpful tip! Saved me lots of time.

By: Kurt Gooding

Kurt Gooding — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:23:59 +0000

Les: I currently have the same problem, I am able to recover the files after a reformat of the drive, however I cannot access the registry. On a PC this is where DW stores its site information. I have tried MM_exporter, but no luck.

Though, If you are on a Mac I believe the files are stored here:

users//Library/Preferences/Dreamweaver 8 Prefs

I am on a PC and I have a feeling I have to just recreate all my sites as I have no access to my previous registery. Unless someone can prove otherwise!

Let me know how you got on.

Kurt

By: Les

Les — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 15:08:14 +0000

Does anyone know how to recover site settings from a straight file system backup? My hard disk died, but my files are all backed up. I just need to know where to look for the directory and file where DW stores the file data (i.e. I didn’t create .ste files…lesson learned!).

By: deejay

deejay — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:54:08 +0000

Hi Jesper,

did exactly as you described, however my sites do not show up in dreamweaver after i’ve updated the registry with the contents of Common\8\Sites.

Sites are in the same directory as before the format.

help.

Rgds, dj

By: Jesper

Jesper — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:41:32 +0000

exported 100+ sites today
1. closed all macromedia apps
2. started regedit (start -> run, write regedit)
3. find and select
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\Common\8 \Sites
4. file -> export, save the registry file
5. run the file on new computer

If you want to change path to you local files, open the file and use search/replace.

By: Nora

Nora — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 23:45:23 +0000

Do you know of an extension that would allow all sites to be exported at once?

Once you have more than 20 sites it get’s to be a bit painful to do a back-up, or for that matter share the site settings with your laptop:)