Re: FLASH: Help

[Garret Parsons2]

>> At 12:55 PM 10/20/98, Garret Parsons2 wrote:

>> >I was working on a file for about an hour saving often, when I get a city

>> >wide black out for 10 minutes. After the power is back on I restart my Mac

>> >and open the .fla file and yep you guessed it its toast. It seams like Flash

>> >puts the whole file in memory and doesn't save a temp file.


I think you might of miss understood me. I wasn't asking for backing up

tips, even though some of the tips were good ones. I am an artist by trade,

since it seams to be hard to find good Mac system managers I do that for a

living as well. So backing up my files is something I now a lot about. I

have been going back to the finder every 20 minutes and copying the file to

a server. The name 123 stuff is a good way to to save them locally I will

try that.


This was my problem.  I had only been working on the file for about 15

minutes or so and the power went off. When it came back on and I tried to

open the file I got unexpected end of file message. witch tells me that

Flash takes the file from the hard drive and loads it all in memory or

something like that? I am use to using Photoshop, Illustrator and Xpress

which all make an temp file and load segments into memory. If I was working

in Photoshop and the power went off I might loose everything from the last

save but never the whole file, in fact for the last 8 years that I have been

using Photoshop I have never lost a file this way. 


I just wanted to know if any one new if the file structure of flash would

still be in tacked and if any one had any experience in recovering a file

like this. Sometimes the file is just messed up in the header?


Looks like everyone is really interested in helping on this list and that's

defiantly cool.


Thanks for helping were you could.



>Sheesh, I know how you feel. Last crash I had, was the last crash I had.

>

>I agree with John D. I personally will do a "save as" if Ive done something

>I wasnt sure of. I also keep the file name the same but will place the date after

>it. At the end of the night I place the latest one on Zip.

>

>If you get into the habit of treating your FLAs as you would your first born,

>you will develop a good habit that will avoid that experience.

>

>-DG-

>

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