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While changing some things on my computer setup today I decided to change the name of my harddrive and computer to match my local DNS entry.

Having done this many times before I knew that there would be certain applications that would be looking for an absolute path that would have issues, such as Dreamweaver sites and the root folder locations for them.

Adobe Contribute (formerly Macromedia Contribute) has the same problem with the stored sites that you have setup prior to the name change.

Here is how to fix Contribute after changing the harddrive name:

1. Open up the Contribute preferences file located in /Users/USERNAME/Library/Preferences/ (in my case the filename was Contribute 4.1 Preferences, this will be different for other versions) in your favorite text editor.
2. Start searching at the top of the file for each instance of the old harddrive name.
3. Replace each instance with the new harddrive name.
4. Save and close the file.

Now the next time you start Contribute, you won’t get the any error messages related to having missing site files.

Oh, and don’t forget to backup the file first. You do back up your data right?