After launching Dreamweaver, does it look like it hangs at the “Initializing files” stage? If you’re linked up with a subversion repository, that might be to blame.

According to Pablo Livardo’s blog, Dreamweaver will always try connecting to the svn repository when booting up before allowing you to do anything… and it might hang for 10 minutes or so before it gives up and completes loading.

While you could try to figure out what the problem is, sometimes you just don’t care. In my case, I hadn’t made any changes to my svn repository, and I discovered my svn host was simply down.

Easy solution: disconnect from the network, then launch dreamweaver again. If, like me, you only rely on subversion for checking in major changes, you should be on the road again in a couple of minutes.

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