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Migrating Dreamweaver CS3 Sites from a filesystem backup

Recently I had to completely reinstall Mac OS X on my new Mac Pro do to some funky stuff that Aperture was doing to me. I installed the OS on a secondary hardrive and proceeded to migrate my apps and settings over one by one…one of the apps that is the hardest to migrate for me was Dreamweaver CS3

I have a large number of sites configured and did not want to readd all of them into my new install of DWCS3, so I spent a few hours tonight digging through the old volumen and finally came up with gold!

If you are on a mac and want access to the sites so that you can recover…everything is here:
/Volumes/[your old drive or backup]/Users/[your old user name]/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Common/9/Sites/Site\ Prefs

Just copy that to your new location and you are good to go!

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9 Responses to “Migrating Dreamweaver CS3 Sites from a filesystem backup”

  1. Lowell Taylor says:
    April 16, 2008 at 9:12 pm

    THANK YOU!

    I went though all the dreamweaver configurations, prefs, and caches, and copied them from my backup. I was starting to go loopy. I read how to replace them in MX and CS2, but it is different now.

    I wish I found this comment first!
    Thanks again,
    - Lowell

  2. Zack says:
    April 19, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    THANKS!!!

    After searching my hard drive high and low for config files, this found the one I needed!

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  5. Dennison Uy says:
    August 15, 2008 at 1:33 am

    Any idea how I can do the same on a Windows XP installation?

  6. Colby Dunsmuir says:
    August 18, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    thanks a lot for this… i was a bit rushed and sloppy in the migration to my new macbook pro harddrive and this saved me :o )

  7. Allison says:
    August 26, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Thank you so much – this saved me a ton of trouble!

  8. Randy Reddick says:
    January 23, 2010 at 8:21 am

    This is a lifesaver. Thanks Dreamweaver just suddenly lost ALL my sites (dozens). I used the Time Machine to restore the file from the night before. YAAY!

  9. Martin Møller says:
    February 21, 2010 at 4:20 am

    Thanks a lot – guess that tip saved we for half a days work:)

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