New to PowerPC Mac. Problems with Dreamweaver CS3

Hi all,

I am a newbie to Macs, and installed DW CS3. I had been making changes on a PC previously with Dreamweaver 8. I had the sites stored on an external hard drive so was making the changes and uploading them.

However, on the Mac, I can open the files on the external hard drive, but I can't copy files in to them or upload any files?

For example, when I was quickly creating pages on the PC, I would open a file, click "save as" , rename it, make the necessary text changes, and just upload it again. I can't seem to do this on the Mac.

I go into the folder on the external drive, open a file no problem, but when I click on "save as" and try to save it in the folder again, it won't let me, it keeps telling me "access to my external drive is denied" and I can't modify any files. I am at a bit of a loss. I wouldn't use DW much, so forgive my ignorance if I'm missing something basic on the Mac.

I managed to also save a file to the desktop, made my changes, went to upload it to the site again, and no joy, I couldn't load it up to the external drive. I don't think it's the external drive, but possibly a DW setting on the Mac I am missing out on?

Update: Ok, some more info. When I am in DW on Mac, and click on remote view, and try to "get" a file, I get an error "file activity incomplete". Not sure what the reason for this could be.........

reinstall in order?