Re: [flasher] Flash 5 error message

[John Dowdell]

At 2:03 PM 3/23/1, ananda bates wrote:

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><P>I created a .fla twice now and when I try to reopen it the following

>day it gives me an error message stating: " This document contains

>embedded objects that were created with the Microsoft Windos version of

>Flash. These embedded objects must be deleted before opening on the

>Macintosh."</P>

><P>Any words of wisdom here. I created it entirely in Flash 5 on a Mac.&nbsp;


That's odd. We usually only see that message when there was an "Insert OLE"

command used in Flash 3 or 4 for Windows. I don't know of a way to produce

it if the file was only ever on a Mac. ...???


(What was OLE, and why? Object Linking and Embedding was a Microsoft

implementation to share data across applications. Even though it isn't

really useful for creating a distributed file, it was implemented in order

to earn the Windows seal of approval. The menu item has been removed in

Flash 5 to reduce the number of people caught by it.)


I'd like to learn more about how to produce this in just a new Mac file,

thanks... it may be incidental file damage, but that symptom presentation

has me baffled, and I can't yet imagine a way to produce it under the

conditions that I understand there, sorry.


jd






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