Director 12 Xtras location?

Hi All
We are just updating some of our older movies noticed in the Modify/Movie/Xtras, when rechecking the download if needed- there are no xtra files, like Multiuser.x32 and Shockwave 3d Asset.x32 in the download/shockwave12/xtras directory...
Is this because they've been included in the build by default or simply they have not been uploaded to the shockwave12 xtras folder yet?
Reluctant to publish till we know whats happening or run more tests this end.
Any pointers appreciated
Cheers
Pete

HI!
The stuff I create for disabled kids relies heavily on Xtras so I'm pretty intimate with them. And I'm updating my 10 Mac titles to OS 10.7 and above (post PPC) now so I needed to use Dir 12. The Audio Xtra doesn't work on the Mac side but still does on the Win side. BudAPI still works fairly well (a few functions don't work) on the Mac side and works fine on the Win side. The Flash, Text, FileIO that come with Dir 12 all work fine on both sides. Those are the primary ones I use. To my knowledge, there is no "Bluetooth" Xtra, although that's not really describing exactly what you want?
But on the iOS side of things, nothing works. We have been after Adobe to follow up on the documentation they provide on building iOS Xtras and are very close, but their support of Director these days is almost non-existent. I can chat with someone that seems to know what he's talking about, but in 2 issues so far (the Xtras and getting any keyboard input into an iPad Dir app) have not been resolved.
I'm hoping others with Xtras aspirations for iOS will help me to raise a flag for Adobe to simply have Dir 12 do what they own docs say.
So if anyone out there is hoping for a simple solution to creating iOS apps, and realizes Dir 12 actually does a great job of it, but needs some other features that used to be in Xtras, we will share out information about making your own Xtras, if Adobe ever helps us!
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