Re: FLASH: Unexpected file format

[Matthew Buchanan]

>> Help! This has probably been asked before, but I need a (gasp) quick fix

>> hopefully. I am working on Mac with Flash 5 and after a crash, I get an

>> unexpected file format alert when I try to open my file. Has anyone seen

>> this and is there a fix for it. Help please!

> 

> Sorry, if that copy was damaged during an unexpected shutdown, then a

> disk-recovery utility *might* be able to reconstruct it, but the odds are

> stronger that you'll have to go to the most recent backup.


This happened to me last night. I duplicated the corrupted file in

the Finder and could open the duplicated file fine. Maybe Flash puts

some sort of lock on the file which it crashed on?


Matt



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