[Ti] Dreamweaver

[Kim Gammelgaard]

On 09/06/04 0:35, "b" <fl1pper at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Dejan Sinadinovic paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:
> 
>> Hmm... TI Powerbook G4 on 500 mhz/768 RAM isn't fast enough. It
>> becomes endlessly slow when editing plain html document (with 20 kb
>> of text) in Dreamweaver. Is it because of program or it's a matter
>> of processor speed? I am confused.. D.
> 
> Dejan,
> 
> I am also curious as to what is "becoming" slower, as you work?
> Editing text isn't processor, or RAM, intensive.
> 
> Are you in split windows, with the edited html in one window, and the
> actual local htm file being displayed with the  'live' changes to the
> code?
> 
> Is your hard drive 90% full? Anything over 80% (on the safe side), or
> 85% (on the 'asking for it side), can slow down everything.. If the
> free drive space is fragmented, that's another lousy issue, if the
> file you're working on is fragged, that too doesn't help.
> 
> All systems slow down under either of these conditions, regardless of
> RAM, processor speed, OS, platform, programmers, how 'good'we've
> been', etc.
> 
> ~flipper

I think it is a common problem with Dreamweaver, just search google/mac:

http://www.google.com/mac?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=slow%20dreamweaver

If it is version MX2004/7.0 you are using, Dejan, update to 7.0.1
immediately:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20844&mode=info

IIRC, someone claimed that the update gave a 60% speed boost. I am still on
Dreamweaver MX/6.1, so I can't determine if that figure is correct or not,
but my version isn't the fastest either. If I need speed for HTML-writing, I
go to BBEdit or SubEthaEdit instead.

Cheers,

Kim