[q]Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
TFD Martines wrote:
> Does anybody already have a solution for the Fireworks CS3 crash on loading?
I am experiencing the same problem and it does work when switching user
account. Any idea ?
> Thanks for sharing. -TFD-

Fireworks should be installed by the system administrator. Once you've
done that, you can assign other users accounts.

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So do you mean that I should install the CS3 suite with the actual
'Administrator' user account? or just an account that is a member of the
administrator 'group'?

So far I have re-installed FW 3 times which takes hours with the suite
installer. I have even created a new user with administrator priviledges logged
in and run FW fine. Then I copied over my user profile from the account I have
been using for years to the new account. When I first ran FW after doing this
it started, now it back to crashing when I try to start it. And when I say
crash the error window appears almost immediately.

This has to be some bug in FW since every other application in the CS3 suite
will start!

I have now wasted hours searching online, re-installing and trying so-called
solutions and I am very angry and frustrated because I like to use FW but I
might just have to say FI and use Photoshop instead - which is probably the
Adobe preferred solution anyway!

Peter (frustrated) Gallagher

I have also been having this problem.
Fireworks worked after I installed it, but a few days later stopped working.
Logging in with another user made it work.

I have spent 10 minutes going through the registry and have found the problem
in my case.

One of the sites in here....
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Common\9\Sites

was obviously corrupted or invalid, because removing it allowed fireworks to
load up again!

If there is someone from Adobe that would like to see the registry information
I removed so they can bug check it then I have saved the offending site entry,
or if anyone knows where I can send it, since this seems to be a fairly common
problem.

I hope this information helps someone.

Hello People,

A have the same problem someday, if i start the software fireworks cs3 the
crash after when he load the data in the cache. Okay now i have a solution get
by a friend.

This solution is for Fireworks CS3 on Mac OSX 10.4.11 G5 IMAC.

1. Go to the /User/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/ an drag the
Fireworks Folder on your Desktop !

2. Then start the software again, and see there its´s run, now you can delete
the folder on your desktop because Fireworks write the user information new.

My Friend tell me that are a Adobe typciall Data Management Problem, i dont
know it is this problem really, but it works.

I hope i helps somebody which love this software and wish only that is runnig.

So guy´s have a nice week and enjoy the live with fire work s , Nadim.LB
Germany

Sorry for the bad english !

PS. consequential loss contingency insurance, please make backup of your data
before you delete it !:heart;

:grin; A Huge thanks to nedsbeds for finding out that his issue was the DW
sites registry. I tried the same thing and Fireworks launched properly. The
down side is that I have 26 sites defined in DW so I spent another half hour
importing the sites back into DW. After each site was imported I tried to start
Fireworks until I found the site definition that was causing Fireworks to
crash.

Problem (read bug): Fireworks will unexpectedly quit if Dreamweaver has a site
defined with a dot in the URL (http://local.site/). This will be defined in the
local Info and Testing Server property sheets of the site definition.

Solution (read work-around): Change the site url so it doesn't have a dot in
the URL (http://local_site/).

This has been plaging me for months and I have spent countless hours tring to
get Fireworks CS3 to run. Now thanks to nedsbeds pointing me in the right
direction I am finally happy with my purchase again!

I hope this helps some other people in this topic that have been frustrated by
this bug.

Glad it worked for you e-retina

I have sent a bug report to adobe but couldn't fit the registry entry in.
Hopefully they will email back and ask for it.

My site didn't have a dot in the name so there is possibly something else that
fireworks doesn't like

Nick

I've had a similar problem....for those of us less-experienced with editing our
registry's...is it ok to delete the site folders in the "Sites" directory?
Then, is it a matter of setting up each site in Dreamweaver and checking
Fireworks after you finish each one? Sorry if I'm not being clear but I've not
messed much with my registry.

Thank you.

All I did was altered the registry name of each site entry one by one until I
found the one that was causing the problem.

so change -Site0 to -Site00 or something like that. It will stop fireworks
looking at it when loading and if that site is the one causing the problem
fireworks will start up correctly. If that isn't the broken entry then
fireworks will not load. Just set that one back to the original name and move
on to the next one.

Once you find the problem site you can just delete that single registry folder
and remake it in dreamweaver.

Nick

Nesbed's (did I get the nickname right?) suggestion to change the file name in the registry from Site0 to Site00 worked like a charm. And it only took about 90 seconds! Thanks so much!:grin;

Wow thanks to all, i finally made my fireworks run, i changed de registry entries it's name was like -Site0 i just removed te - and everything wokrs

I had this problem and spend hours uninstalling and reinstalling, cleaning
registry files the whole bit. Then saw the post about the localhost site def in
dreamweaver...which I had just defined a couple of days ago.

Thats what it was. Glad it was a simple fix, but it is frustrating none the
less