User Guide

30 Chapter 2: Extending Dreamweaver
For Mac OS X platforms:
<drive>:Users:<username>:Library:Application Support: ¬
Macromedia:Dreamweaver MX 2004: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 Dreamweaver
Configuration folder. To customize a configuration file that Dreamweaver has not copied into
your user Configuration folder, first copy the file from the Dreamweaver Configuration folder to
the corresponding location inside your user Configuration folder. Then edit the copy in your user
Configuration folder.
Deleting configuration files in a multiuser environment
When you do something within Dreamweaver in a multiuser operating system that would delete
a configuration file (such as when you delete a predesigned snippet from the Snippets panel),
Dreamweaver creates a file in your user Configuration folder called mm_deleted_files.xml. When
a file is listed in mm_deleted_files.xml, Dreamweaver behaves as if that file doesn’t exist.
Note: The mm_deleted_files.xml file isn’t created until you take an action that would cause a
configuration file t
o be deleted.
To deactivate a configuration file:
1 Quit Dreamweaver.
2 Using a text editor, edit mm_deleted_files.xml in your user Configuration folder; add an item
tag to that file, giving the path (relative to the Dreamweaver Configuration folder) of the
configuration file to deactivate.
Note: Do not edit mm_deleted_files.xml in Dreamweaver.
3 Save and close mm_deleted_files.xml.
4 Start Dreamweaver again.