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About customizing Dreamweaver in a multiuser environment
You can customize Dreamweaver to suit your needs even in a multiuser operating system such as
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Mac OS X. Dreamweaver prevents any user’s
customized configuration from affecting any other user’s customized configuration. To
accomplish this goal, the first time you run Dreamweaver in a multiuser operating system that it
recognizes, the application copies various configuration files into a user configuration folder that
belongs to you. When you customize Dreamweaver using dialog boxes and panels, the application
modifies your user configuration files instead of modifying the master configuration files.
To customize Dreamweaver by hand-editing a configuration file in a multiuser environment, edit
the appropriate user configuration file, rather than editing the master configuration files in the
application folder. To make a change that affects most users, you can edit a master configuration
file, but users who already have corresponding user-configuration files won’t see the change. In
general, if you want to make a change that affects all of the users, it’s best to create an extension
and install it using the Extension Manager. For more information, see “Extending Dreamweaver:
Basics” on page 23.
Note: In older operating systems (Windows 98, Windows ME, and Mac OS 9.x), a single set of Dreamweaver
configuration files is shared by all users, even if the operating system is configured to support multiple users.
The following are the specific locations for user configuration folders in each multiuser
operating system:
• Windows NT: C:\WinNT\profiles\username\Application
Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Configuration
• Windows 2000 and Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application
Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX\Configuration (In Windows XP, this folder may be
inside a hidden folder)
• Mac OS X: Hard disk/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/
Dreamweaver MX/Configuration
Note: To install extensions that all users can use in a multiuser operating system, you must be logged in as
Administrator (Windows) or root (Mac OS X).
Dreamweaver copies only some of the configuration files into your user configuration folder the
first time you run the application. (The files that it copies are specified in the version.xml file in
the Configuration folder.) When you customize Dreamweaver from within the application (for
example, when you modify one of the predesigned code snippets in the Snippets panel),
Dreamweaver copies the relevant files into your user configuration folder. The version of a file in
your user configuration folder always takes precedence over the version in the master
configuration folder.
To hand-customize a configuration file that Dreamweaver has not copied into your user
configuration folder, first copy the file from the master configuration folder to the corresponding
location inside your user configuration folder. Then edit the copy in your user configuration folder.
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