Having a bit of a problem with dreamweaver. It is not picking up all broken links on my site and is also showing some files that are linked and working as orphan files when I run the link checker. I have recreated the site cache although it doesn't seem to work.
Are your links relative to the calling document (eg, "index.html" or "../index.html"), root relative (eg "/index.html") or absolute (eg, "http://www.example.com/index.html")? Are the links that are being misreported JavaScript links?
Were they were working before, or have they never worked?
It is version 8. As the site is a mess (i have redesigned the whole site hopefully it will be uploaded by the end of this week) the links are root relative and absolute. The links aren't misreported JavaScript links.
They worked fine before.
It's frustrating because if one doc comes up as an orphaned file I go to delete it in the local site and a warning doesn't come up saying that 'there are links the this file are you sure you want to delete it?'.
There are over 600 files linked so it's a bit hard to keep a track on each one
Hmmm... have you double-checked the site settings under "Local Info" for "Links Relative to", "HTTP Address", and "Use case-sensitive link checking"? If case-sensitive checking was off, and then it was turned on, that could cause problems...
Other than that, the only thing I would probably try is creating a new site definition for the project.