Dreamweaver 8 keeps failing to do FTP

[MatthewLTL]

I am currently working on rebuilding my personal website. Gotta say I love Dreamweaver 8. Previously I was using CoffeeCup's FREE HTML Editor which is shitdows only, And it was limited compared to Dreamweaver. The only thing that drives me CRAZY with the entire program is that I have to go into my website settings, and click on 'Test Settings" and when i get the confirmation that it connected successfully to the FTP Server, I can then save the site progress to the server. However, I have to do this every time i finish a page. I constantly get "Sever Timeouts" if i do not do what is mentioned above before i go to save every changes to any page.

Anyone else experience this? And before it's suggested no, I have not tried FileZilla and I do not want to store the website content locally so I'm not going to use that.

 

[Dronecatcher]

I am currently working on rebuilding my personal website. Gotta say I love Dreamweaver 8. Previously I was using CoffeeCup's FREE HTML Editor which is shitdows only, And it was limited compared to Dreamweaver. The only thing that drives me CRAZY with the entire program is that I have to go into my website settings, and click on 'Test Settings" and when i get the confirmation that it connected successfully to the FTP Server, I can then save the site progress to the server. However, I have to do this every time i finish a page. I constantly get "Sever Timeouts" if i do not do what is mentioned above before i go to save every changes to any page.

Anyone else experience this? And before it's suggested no, I have not tried FileZilla and I do not want to store the website content locally so I'm not going to use that.

I have the vague memory of having this issue years ago when I used Dreamweaver - I quickly moved to the accepted practice of having the site mirrored locally then FTPed separately. You said you don't want to do this but it's the much preferred method - editing a website live is asking for things to go wrong.

 

[Gamer9430]

Well, if your anti FileZilla, use CyberDuck!

 

[MatthewLTL]

I have the vague memory of having this issue years ago when I used Dreamweaver - I quickly moved to the accepted practice of having the site mirrored locally then FTPed separately. You said you don't want to do this but it's the much preferred method - editing a website live is asking for things to go wrong.

Well that is how i did it back when using CoffeeCup HTML Editor, and I used LeechFTP to upload it. I just dont like the idea of it stored locally because a HDD failure is why my site was taken down to begin with

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Well, if your anti FileZilla, use CyberDuck!

i'm not anti FileZilla just never used it before IIRC when i tried it on Linux YEARS ago i found it complicated and just ran LeechFTP via Wine

 

[fuchsdh]

Well that is how i did it back when using CoffeeCup HTML Editor, and I used LeechFTP to upload it. I just dont like the idea of it stored locally because a HDD failure is why my site was taken down to begin with

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i'm not anti FileZilla just never used it before IIRC when i tried it on Linux YEARS ago i found it complicated and just ran LeechFTP via Wine

Well mirroring your site from your HDD is how Dreamweaver really operates by default, and it's not like a HDD failure puts you out of business—just fix your local issue and pull down the site (you should have another local or offsite backup as extra insurance anyhow.)

 

[128keaton]

Well that is how i did it back when using CoffeeCup HTML Editor, and I used LeechFTP to upload it. I just dont like the idea of it stored locally because a HDD failure is why my site was taken down to begin with

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i'm not anti FileZilla just never used it before IIRC when i tried it on Linux YEARS ago i found it complicated and just ran LeechFTP via Wine

I used to use Filezilla to SFTP into my iPod Touch when I was 8 on 'shitdows' not hard to do at all.

 

[poiihy]

Well that is how i did it back when using CoffeeCup HTML Editor, and I used LeechFTP to upload it. I just dont like the idea of it stored locally because a HDD failure is why my site was taken down to begin with

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i'm not anti FileZilla just never used it before IIRC when i tried it on Linux YEARS ago i found it complicated and just ran LeechFTP via Wine

Filezilla is simple now.

 

[MatthewLTL]

Filezilla is simple now.

where can i get one that works on PPC?

 

[poiihy]

where can i get one that works on PPC?

There's this...
http://code.technoplaza.net/filezilla/history/FileZilla-3.7.3-univ-osx.dmg
From this page:
https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Unofficial_Binaries#Mac_OS_X_10.4.x