Re: FLASH: How to open a PC fla on a Mac./ File Exchange Control

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Hi,


I haven't been following this thread, so if this has been suggested already,

please forgive me.


Something which could make a foreign file map to the wrong application on a

Mac is the File Exchange Control Pqnel. (I think this was called  MacOS

EasyOpen in earlier MacOS versions. I forget whether the name changed in 8.x

or 9.x). This is the MacOS utility which maps unknown or foreign files to a

given application when doubleclicked.


Open it (system folder-->control panels) and see what you have the extension

.fla mapped to. Also check to see what application you have unknown file

formats mapped to. (you can set this control panel to "ask every time" which

is probably the best.) I bet you'll find you have a few unknown file types

mapped to MS Word or perhaps IE.


If changing it properly doesn't work, you can trash the File Exchange

preferences (System folder --> preferences) and see what happens.


Its probably a farfetched chance, but I thought it might be worth

mentioning.


good luck


catherine



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From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (John Dowdell)

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Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:18:10 -0700

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

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

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At 8:53 AM 10/16/0, DRMRLPLSaol [dot] com wrote:

>> this is not what I meant.  I'm sorry I guess I assumed everyone

remembered my

>> last email.  I open PC files and the Mac every singe day.  This

particular

>> problem is with a PC file that won't open no matter what you do.  On

certain

>> Mac computers it gives an error message about elements created with the

>> Microsoft version and that it couldn't open the file.  I don't think this

>> issue has ever been addressed here other than a reference to a piece of

>> software called Flashtyper or flatyper, which I've heard does not work

for

>> this particular problem.

>

> If you're talking about one particular file that acts differently than

> others, then it might help to examine that one particular file.

>

> If you're actually seeing some type of message about something with

> Microsoft, then I might wonder about whether you embedded an OLE element

in

> that particular file. That's just a guess on my part, though, because

> online we can't tell anything about that particular file, and can't even

> see the error message you're referring to.

>

> (If you instead mistyped above, and the intended question is closer to

> "What might cause many files to be difficult to open on another platform?"

> or "What might cause one particular file to be able to be opened

> some-but-not-all times on another platform?" or some combo like that, then

> I'd defer to the previous general information already posted here.)

>

> jd



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