Re: FLASH: How to open a PC fla on a Mac.

[John Dowdell]

At 1:33 PM 10/16/0,

DRMRLPLSaol [dot] com

 wrote:

>Thanks.  I had missed that earlier post script.  I've tryed all of those

>methods.  this file just won't open.  I don't know of any OLE objects in

>these files.  I didn't create these files we had them developed overseas and

>I've only done postproduction work on the PC for them.  When they wouldn't

>open at all, I tried copying every scene one at a time into a fresh movie by

>copying and pasting frames.  I thought this might kill some objects that were

>bad.  I thought wrong.  I did trim my lobrary by 2 MB, but the files still

>won't open.


Sorry, I'm not sure... I think you're saying that other files work normally

through that transfer process, but this one does not? If so, then it would

definitely pay off to examine that one particular file.


If you can open this FLA on your own PC, then you might consider isolating

the problem part by deleting the first half, doing a "Save As" to

completely rewrite the remainder, then trying to bring this over to the

other machine. Then do another test, deleting the other half. If both fail,

then see whether you can delete everything *except* one frame, "Save As"

and transfer this... this can help isolate artwork used in multiple

sections.


I'm sorry I don't know of any shortcuts to identifying an odd element in

one particular movie... so much depends on the particulars, that it's just

gumshoe detective work, eliminating the suspects one by one, sorry.


jd







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