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| Subject: | Re: FLASH: fla and crashing Mac |
| From: | Michael Penne |
| Date: | Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:19:56 +0100 |
'Nother thing we've found that crashes Flash is
copying/pasting (from PPT specifically) when either
the fla or the ppt file is on a server volume. Found
this will crash flash on either MacOS8.6 or NT4sp4.
Copying files to local disk and working off them fixed
it.
--- John Croteau <croteau
erols [dot] com> wrote:> Hi Jeff,
>
> I forgot to include the standard solution, if you
> can open an FLA that
> crashes, create a new file and copy frame frames
> from the original and
> paste the frames into the new file. This should also
> be done if you have
> an FLA of your own if it seems buggy, because if it
> is corrupted --
> later on you might not be able to open it at all.
> Note, if the file was
> crashing it may crash when copying and pasting the
> frames, though this
> is rare be prepared for a crash just in case.
>
> > Usually if you download an FLA and you can't
> doubleclick on it to open
> > it, it was created on a PC but it should play
> without problems on a Mac.
> > You should be able to open the file from inside
> Flash by selecting File
> > > Open and choosing All Files, rather than All
> Formats. Be sure to Save As to add the fork so it
> will open normally in your Mac the next time.
> >
> > There are lots of problems when downloading raw
> FLA files from the Web,
> > they should normally be compressed (as Zip or
> bin-hex) because there is
> > no MIME for FLA files. A small corruption in the
> download or
> > decompression can sometimes allow a corrupted file
> to open even though
> > it is bad.
>
> --
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>
>
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