Finding the list of files Dreamweaver will reopen on startup

• August 19, 2009
• James Skemp
• software

As sometimes happens, a network share ended up going down while I was using Dreamweaver. Unfortunately, this can cause fairly major issues with Dreamweaver, if you have files still open, or if you have Dreamweaver closed, but need to open it up.

Since I typically have more than one file open in Dreamweaver, and have set my preferences to remember what I've got open, I wanted to know where Dreamweaver stored the files that it was going to re-open.

This setting isn't stored in the file system, but rather is stored in the registry.

In Dreamweaver 8 the setting is under Edit > Preferences > General > Reopen documents on startup.

The files that were open are stored in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Open Files

In Dreamweaver CS4 the registry setting is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4\Open Files

Note that if Dreamweaver crashes, Open Files may not be set. This is also updated when the program closes, not while it's running.

On Dreamweaver 8 Open Files is deleted, until the program closes, while CS4 seems to keep it available for longer.

• dreamweaver