Dreamweaver FTP Frustrations

Posted August 20th, 2008 by Albert Banks

Here at Myjive we utilize and for the most part enjoy Adobe’s Creative Suite. We have used the various versions for years. In fact, I originally started with Dreamweaver 3 back in the day.

Dreamweaver is great for coding, visualization and design previews. But what continues to frustrate us is the FTP functionality of the program. We are currently using CS3, but this goes for past versions as well.

We are often plagued by “timeouts” and “unable to connect” errors. It doesn’t matter the location, IP or operating system of the server we’re connecting to. I’ve even had problems setting file permissions. We’ve tried all the tips, increasing the timeout to 40+ seconds, using Passive FTP, etc. But the program continues to have issues.

At some points we are forced to use Filezilla or Fetch – and they have no problems. Each new version of Dreamweaver we keep hoping Adobe will make the effort to improve the FTP functionality. Maybe next time… CS4 anyone?

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  1. jakrose
    August 20th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    I have had the same frustration and often have to revert to my fireFTP firefox plugin

  2. Ron
    August 20th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    For real – and what about integrating Dreamweaver’s site manager with the Flash Publish process? I would love to tap Cmd+Shift+U and have the swf publish right to the server. Mmmm, tasty.

  3. cam thomas
    September 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    transmit dude, transmit.

  4. Charlie
    May 10th, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    Word.

    I’ve posted several rants / help articles on getting the FTP to work better at my blog. I’m sure MacroDobe is aware of this. I was hoping that once CS3 came out, Adobe would have fixed some of the unprofessional aspects of Dreamweaver and Flash environments, but no such luck. I am all too often forced to use Cyberduck (which gets my seal of approval) to upload a friggin 5k file because Dreamweaver just couldn’t stop timing out.

    I’ve been looking far and wide to find a way to use extensions to alternate the FTP plugin, but it’s just not written extensibly like that.

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