If that works, then the error has probably already corrected itself if Dreamweaver still won’t work, even after quitting and restarting it, please let me know. Go into it and look for the “las” folder and make sure you can go into it as well. If it is there, double-click it that should open up a folder window with a lot of subfolders inside. Open “My Computer” from the Start menu and look for a drive labeled “WOU Website (X:)”. Make sure you do this on the computer where you were getting the error, whether that’s your office machine, a terminal server, or whatever. The first thing to check is that the X: drive is correctly mapped. I’ll be using that terminology for the rest of this post.) (By the way, even though X: and the others are nothing more than labels, they’re usually still referred to as “drives” whether they are mapped to an actual hardware drive, or a network location, or anything else. Of course, they almost certainly still do exist, and the network location might even be available it’s just that if that X: label isn’t mapped, Windows is helpless and can’t even take the first step towards finding the files you need. As far as it can tell, they just don’t exist. If that connection isn’t made properly, or is lost for any reason, your computer can’t find the files. Every time you log in, if you have web editing permissions, your computer should automatically connect (or “map”) the X: label to the network location where the web files are kept.
Mostly, the particular letters don’t matter they’re just labels for convenient access. To Windows, these are all just different locations that contain files. For historical reasons, Windows uses single letters (followed by colons) to refer to network connections, just like it does for hard disks, DVD drives, USB sticks, and so forth that are physically connected to your machine.
Still here? Great! Web pages on our site are just files stored on our network, and in order to work with them, your computer needs a connection to the right network location.
You can skip to “Troubleshooting instructions” below if you just want to know what to do, not why. Most of the time, though, this happens because the X: drive on your computer (or the terminal server) isn’t connected properly. It’s pretty rare, but sometimes there may be a problem with the webserver itself or with the page file or folder. Of course, the first thing to check is that the page or site actually works on the web. If this happens, it generally comes when you’re first starting Dreamweaver, or first connecting to a site in Contribute. For those of you who edit parts of the WOU website, here are a few steps to try if you run into errors like “Can’t connect to site” or “Local root folder is missing” or just “File not found” when you try to open up Contribute or Dreamweaver.
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