Re: FLASH: Flash 3 corupt FLA 2!

[Jayma]

Boy, don't I know that now.  There was a ton of drawings that I lost in

that "Invalid file".  Unfortunately, the default on the test exports WAS

set to protect.  An error I will not repeat!


>I suffered the same fate once. While I don't have a good suggestion for

>recovering the fla file, it might be worth pointing out that if you do all

>your production work with the movie export settings set to allow import of

>swfs, you can get at least the elements of the movie back by importing one

>of your test swfs.

>

>Obviously the degree to which this helps depends on how much time you've

>spent designing the elements & symbols vs. creating the animations, but in

>my case it helped a great deal since the bulk of the work was in designing

>the elements of the page. The animations were very straightforward.

>

>

>

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>From: John Croteau <croteauerols [dot] com>

>

>To: flashershocker [dot] com

>>Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash 3 corupt FLA 2!

>>Date: Fri, Feb 12, 1999, 5:15 PM

>>

>

>>> Not the exact same error, but I am running on a Mac, and had a Flash

>>> crash recently. When I tried to reopen the file... I got an "Invalid

>>> File" error, losing 5 hours of work since my last backup. It's got me

>>> paranoid enough that I am double saving everything (master and backup)

>>> every 10 minutes or so! I was never able to get that file back, but it

>>> looked to be all there (file size). Would love to hear if someone

>>> knows if you can save these files, or do you just take in the chin and

>>> start over?

>

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