CS3 file crashing CS4 when trying to open

Question

I have a CS3 file that I created on the Mac and when I try to open it on my PC in CS4 it crashes.  When I use an older version of the same FLA file it opens in CS4.  Are there known issues of things that cause a file to crash going from CS3 to CS4?

Answer 1

I believe I solved it. I fixed the issue through some combo of deleting all Palm files, reinstalling and overwriting the User data via my handheld. All was good with the world, and then it just happened again. I tried to launch the desktop software and just got the spinning beachball of death. I hadn't installed anything since I last successfully synched and opened the Palm software. But I remembered something...Prior to both of these incidents, I had done something different in my To Do list. When you open a To Do item, you can enter a primary category. I have all my To Dos associated with a category. But there is another category list to the right of the primary one. I have never used it before. But I was organizing some project work To Dos by associating them as a Primary category Projects and a secondary category with different names. This is helpful for creating views without cluttering my To Do categories unduly. EXCEPT...I think this is what somehow corrupted my file and caused the Desktop to hang. Each time we reinstalled and resynched from the handheld, it stripped out those secondary categories...and it works.
Post relates to: Zire 72
Post relates to: Zire 72