DW CS3 deletes your files

Just a quick update. I have upgraded to CS4 and this problem still exists. I
can save via notepad no problem it is only a Dreamweaver issue.

Is there some way I can turn some special debugging on so I can send some
extra information to you guys to get this problem fixed?

-David

NiemiOn is correct: This has to be a Dreamweaver bug. The problem also exists
in Dreamweaver CS3 for Mac. I've encountered it on two occasions within the
past few weeks on two different computers with two different users working on
two different web sites. One developer lost all of her images and her index
file; the other lost her entire web site. She was working on a file, got an
error message that the file could no longer be found and the next minute her
entire site was gone.

Solved!, at least on Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit + DW-CS3!

This worked for a Windows Vista Ultimate Laptop that showed the following
issues:

- After opening a remote file (UNC mapped drive, or shared folder), you edit
anything and CRTL+S (or saving the manual way), you receive: "..file contains
an invalid path..bla..bla.bla.."
- The file that was being edited erases after the error

So, after a lot, we saw another issue, when we tried to change any filename of
the remote location using the Windows Explorer, we received a message saying
that the folder did not exists, even though the folder was there.

So one problem at a time, googling for the windows error we found:

http://blog.mpecsinc.ca/2007/12/windows-vista-folder-does-not-exist.html

This comes from a MS KB 934160

Warning! Take care when using regedit!

Start -->regedit [Enter]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Csc\Parameters
In our case the Paramaters key was missing and needed to be created
In the Parameters key create a new DWORD Value (Right click or Edit -->New)
Name it: FormatDatabase [Enter]
Double click (right click -->Modify) on the new FormatDatabase REG_DWORD
Set the value to: 1
Reboot

After rebooting, now Dreamweaver worked like a charm!

As I said, this worked for me, on Windows ultimate 64-bit. Let?s hope it works
for others!
(Sorry for any bad spelling, English is not my language)

CHECHORJ has found the answer! I added the registry key, and it works beautifully!

Vista Business 32-bit

Thank you CHECHORJ!

I have another possible, and more likely, solution, especially where users
maybe connecting to their remote file via a Local/Network.
My colleague experienced the problem noted in this post where he could not
save a file (Acess Denied [blah].tmp etc..)

The problem turned out to be that the /var records on our remote machine (this
stores all the log files etc..) had become full. Dreamweaver creates a .tmp
file to store all the changes (your edit history) and the remote server was
refusing to save this because the logs files (located /var in our case) were
full.

Once we deleted/archived our old logs he was able to work normally again.

I guess it all depends on how you connect to your remote server (ie editing in
notepad doesn't save temp files on the remote machine) and how that machine
stores it's user logs (is there a limit on the file size etc...).

This would also explain why the Adobe team haven't been able to reproduce the
bug reported by so many people in this post.
It certainly wasn't a Dreamweaver bug in our case and I would certainly
investigate this solution before I did anything as drastic as editing the
Registry!