Re: FLASH: fla and crashing Mac

[John Croteau]

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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