I just got a new laptop with Vista Business on it and spent a while looking for where the Dreamweaver CS3 site definitions are stored. I found this post, which tells where they are on a Mac, but I didn’t see them in the same relative folder on my XP machine. Then, I found this post, which says they’re only stored in your registry on a Windows machine. After thinking “that’s dumb”, I followed these steps to backup and restore them:

  1. Start > Run > “regedit”
  2. Browse to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Common\9\Sites\”
  3. Right click on the “Sites” folder on the left, select “Export”.
  4. Choose a location and click “Save”.
  5. Move the  resulting “.reg” file to your new destination and double click, clicking “Yes” or “OK” to accept the warning dialogs.
  6. Open Dreamweaver and enjoy :)!

You can also view the list of site definitions in Dreamweaver, highlight them all, then click Export. The reason I didn’t like this method is because it prompts you for a file name for every site, and is equally nagging on import (I did it this way last time I reformatted). If I had 10-15 sites, it wouldn’t be a big deal, but with well over 50 it is not particularly effecient.

It took me a little more than an hour to find this, so I hope it saves someone time!