Re: FLASH: URGENT: Trace Bitmap crashing Flash

[John Dowdell]

Sounds like a tough one, and I'm sorry I haven't worked a similar situation

before... I don't have a ready solution.


If a particular tracing is complex enough to cause a problem, then one

hypothesis could be that it's overloading the current computer... if it's a

Mac you can try to increase RAM, or you can try to open that FLA on another

strong box, if one is handy. (I'm not sure what's stronger than a 450MHz

PIII, though.... :-(


But another hypothesis is that this complex tracing may be corrupt, too. If

we can't display it, and can't even access it by name in the Symbol

Library, then I'm not sure how to select it to delete it.


Hmm... have you tried selecting a different symbol, and then

SHIFT-selecting a range around the suspect symbol? If it's actually a

corruption problem, then this sequence could avoid parsing the problem

symbol itself... SHIFT-selection of a range of (possibly dummy) symbols

could be a way to select it without evaluating it.


Tip: If you *can* get rid of this problem tracing, then be sure to "Save

As" the file immediately... this will rewrite a totally new file, instead

of just including the potentially corrupt media and marking it as ignored.


I'm sorry I don't have a proven way to handle this... have other

listmembers come across a similar situation, have proven tips on how to

handle a complex tracing that may be damaged...?


jd







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