Re: FLASH: Flash Crash

[Jason]

Hi,


No, you are not alone. I have the same problem. Macromedia don't give a damn.

Apple don't give a damn. Flash Crashes in the actions dialogue bow 4-5 times

a day. It corrupted the files with Flash 3. With Flash 4 it seems to just

crash the system. Frederico has helped a great deal but has left me hanging

without a solution (we uninstalled everything and turned off all the

extensions and it still crashes). I don't know what to do either. I bought a

B/W G3 and it crashes too.


It would seem that no-one wants to admit that this problem exists. I've been

saving my work avery 30 minutes on a seperate Hard disk for 8 months now and

have frequently lost hours of work... I don't want to complain (but I will) -

I'm seriously pissed at Macromedia and Apple because I work with their tools

and create work (and traffic) that I feel is very much beneficial to both

(100,000 visits a month from the 0-8 age range on Flash 4 content) but I get

no reply to my e-mails from Macromedia and Apple tell me that it is not

possible to have this kind of system crash on a new G3 with nothing but Flash

installed with no extensions and no SCSI units conneted... Frederico was kind

enough to help out but hasn't found the solution either and no longer replies

to my e-mails. I now accept the crashes as part of life working on Macromedia

products on a Mac. Every time I open the actions dialogue box I expect the

machine to crash. When it doesn't (approximately 70% of the time), I'm

relieved (to say the least).


Is this a bug? Am I too stupid to be left in charge of a computer? I think

that the first is more than likely - I gave a file to someone to work on

and... bingo ! a machine that never crashed before started crashing

inexplicably. If it's the latter, Boowa and Kwala will not live to see the

new year.


Bonne courage.


If you get any joy from Macromedia (a reply for example) or Apple, please do

tell me.


Jason


Ulrich Sinn wrote:


> So, am I the only person left in this universe experiencing crashes?

> It's the second time that Flash 4 *completely* messed up a whole days

> work ("unexpected file format").

>

> I'm already in the habit of hitting save after every operation. Do I

> need to save copies as well?

>

> It happens almost always when editing actions (mouse events?). It always

> goes hand in hand with a crash on the PCI bus (or sound manager? I have

> an audio card installed).

>

> Also: I have to crank up virtual memory (which of course does not go

> down very well with audio software) to about 500 Meg to be able to work

> on a 50 Meg file (sounds of course). Can this be normal?

>

> Mac OS 8.1 144 Meg Ram installed. Add'l (to 8.1) extensions: suitcase,

> ATM, Type reunion, Korg 1212, Kensington, Iomega driver.

>

> Any help or insight very much appreciated, I'm getting a little edgy here.

>

> Regards,

>

> U.

>

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