I recently upgraded from CS3 to CS6 and are having some minor issues with setting up a site as well as with certain views.
Site Setup: (first I will explain how I use DW)
I keep all of my customer and my own company sites on an external USB drive in folders named [#Customer sites] and [#Company Sites] respectively. The naming convention is really there just to keep these at the top of the directory listing as access them frequently (the # symbol has never caused any issues with CS3 or previous versions by the way). I do not ever connect to a remote server nor use any of the built in FTP features in DW as I find they too easily corrupt live websites with the check in/check out feature. So, each website runs 100% on my local computer (with connections to remote DB servers if necessary). I have Win7 Ultimate with IIS installed and running and localhost brings me to the IIS7 page as expected (so we can dispel any issues with IIS). I always set up my testing server to be Local/Network and preview in browser has always worked in the past with no issues. AS far as moving content to the live servers, I have and always will use a separate FTP client for that (never let DW anywhere near FTP)
1) The first thing I noticed after setting up a site is that moving files around (images, CSS, js files), DW will not update any of the links in base files like contact, index, etc. I have removed, re-setup over and over and still no luck here. I do get the prompt to update but it only ask to update links in [ / ] with no file names. This is one of the primary reasons I use DW is that I can update links throughout an entire site but CS6 is not working for me here.
2) Next thing I noticed is that for whatever reason I cannot get 'Live' view to work on even the simplest of web pages. I get a message that states: "Dreamweaver could load the file "M:\". The system reported the error: M:\ contains an incorrect path..". Again, I have re-checked the setup, the paths in the site definition and all are pointed to the correct location.
I built a simple Fluid Grid page to test feature... here are the relevant site definition settings:
Site name: FluidTest
Local Site Folder: M:\#COMPANY SITES\FluidTest\
Server name: Local
Connect using: Local/Network
Server Folder: M:\#COMPANY SITES\FluidTest
Web URL: http://localhost/fluidtest
Note that I was able to get the Preview in a Browser feature to work once I created a virtual directory under the 'Default Web Site' in IIS but cannot get this to work when I just create it as a new website. Seems localhost only wants to run under the Default website. Thought about manually turning sites on and off in IIS but should not need to do this with Win7 as IIS is supposed to be able to handle multiple websites. I will likely figure out a work around this annoyance.... just though I would mention it as it is somewhat in context.
Fluid Grid Layout annoyance:
I am sure I am missing a setting somewhere but after creating my simple FluidTest website, I cannot see the Pink Columns in the Grid layout. After uninstalling CS6, removing all traces of Adobe, and re-installing CS6 I still have this issue. I have enable all the Visual Aid settings [ View --> Visual Aids ] and still the Pink Column grid is not visible in any of the layouts for mobile, tablet, or Desktop. Anyone with a solution, please enlighten me.