Flash installer self deletes?

I installed Adobe products today (Photoshop, Lightroom), and Adobe Media Player was included. I don't know that it was cause / effect, but I was on YouTube shortly thereafter and got only black screens. (Firefox5 and Opera12, 100% non-functional. Very buggy in IE9.)
Research indicated that this condition happens to a lot of people, but for many reasons, and I was unable to narrow done causes or solutions. I downloaded and overinstalled the latest version of Flash (though my version should have been fully current). That fixed the problem and YouTube videos played fine afterward.
However, I noticed that the installer was missing.? I download all installers to a specific directory so it was easily noticed.
Is the Flash installer supposed to self delete? If so, why? If so, it would be nice to be advised.
(Didn't care for the default selected McAfee garbageware on the dowload page. Would have been very easy to miss. The 'download' button is designed to bring the eye right past the garbageware.)

Yes, several times, Tom. You don't copy the entire installer application. You clone the InstallESD.dmg from inside the application package: Contents/SharedSupport/. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the Install Mac OS X Lion application download and navigate to the indicated folder.
Open Disk Utility. Select the flash drive and click on the Restore tab in the main window. Drag the flash drive to the Destination field. Drag the InstallESD.dmg file into the Source field. Click on the Restore button.

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It's a "Stub" installer, and ALL stub installers self-delete. VLC, Firefox, both use stub installers now, which delete upon initialization of the download. Flash Player stub installers have done this since 2005 that I know of. And if you use the stub installer, it IS a web install. Thewre si no other way. you CAN'T install Flash Playe as a 1mb file. It's eighteen times that big as a FULL download and 54 times as big fully installed.
Windows System Restore keeps track of what was installed and when, right down to the second it was installed.
Additionally Windows "datestamps" the installed files.
You can see this in your Control Panel:
as well as "timestamping" the files in the folders where they're installed:
If you MUST HAVE a 17mb file to keep on hand in case of emergency (here's a hint: if you do a System Restore to a time BEFORE you downloaded it, WIndows will likely erase it), the FULL installers are here:
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Try this installer: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/support/install_flash_player_osx.dm g

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Is there a way to create a user account that "expires", or self deletes itself after a set amount of time?

I am hoping to find a way to create an Admin account for our parent body that can be used for items at home, "adding printers, software, wireless settings, etc...), but have that account either "expire" or self delete itself after say 72 hours?
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Jesse

Will they be needing to keep files saved for a while? I'm guessing no, since you're ok with it auto-deleting after a short while.
You could just use the guest user: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11321
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My issue was identical.... days of frustrating downloads and initializing but no installation........ UNTIL I chose to not use the default installer and chose 'Save File'. Now I have the latest Flash installed in OS 10.8.5 no problems !!
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I doubt anyone will listen - but just want to add my feedback to others who have been upset by how flash installs updates.
I was asked to update by flash in the big black box on start up.. did so and it downloaded Macafee without my permission. Installing this way does not appear to give you any options to disable this installation option.
Unprofessional behaviour in my opinion. Following the tactics of malware sites is not acceptable. Paints your whole company in a bad light being associated with this.

Thanks for the clarification. This definitely is not the intended behavior. I've seen similar complaints, and we take them seriously and do our best to investigate them. We have around 1.2 billion users, but I've seen maybe a couple dozen complaints about this over the last couple years. A failure rate of 0.001% at Flash Player scales translates to 100k+ people, and I'm not seeing the kind of overwhelming response that you would expect if this was a widespread issue.
We get a wave of questions with each update, and we usually get a handful of this kind of complaint for each release. I've personally spent a bunch of time trying to recreate a scenario where this would happen, and I haven't been able to do it. I've worked with a couple people that were experiencing this to try and recreate the problem on their machines as well, but the issue has never reproduced for anyone I've talked to. My guess is that it's timing dependent. When we publish the update, we don't just put it on one server. It goes out to a Content Distribution Network, composed of thousands of geographically distributed servers. It takes about an hour for the update to fully propagate across the entire CDN, and because of the transitory nature of the symptoms, my guess is that if you happen to hit the update at just the wrong time, there's a half-updated server state that somehow causes the client to grab the wrong payload; however, the payload with and without the bundled offers have totally different names, so it's not obvious from looking at the code as to why this would happen (and we've looked carefully).
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Salutations DaveDave123, tu nous disais :
> Basically my problem is this. Whenever I go on certain
websites,
> sometimes the flash content works and other times it
doesn't. I
> tried to reinstall Flash Player 8 but it says it's
already installed,
> but then when I go to view flash content on another site
it says I do
> not have Flash Player. I went into Control Panel >
Add/Remove
> Programs and I removed Flash Player 8 (Which strangely
there seemed
> to be 2 of, maybe where the problem lies), but then I
come back to
> the website to try install it and it says it's already
installed.
Hi Dave,
I've got a confirmation that my VBScript is appropriate :
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=184&threadid=11470 48&enterthread=y
BTW, if you use Norton as AntiVirus, you'll have an alert
because of
the access to registry and files inside the script.
http://docxp.mvps.org/b1n/FlashRepair.exe
This script can't repair ALL flash problems, but i think it
is
fine for yours. On a fully functionnal Flash installation, it
can't
break anything.
What the script is doing ?
0) Check I.E. user langage for french or english use in
dialogs
1) Close all open Internet Explorer windows
2) change registry rights (to allow 3) or re-installation) on
flash related keys
3) register latest flash ocx (if found)
4) remove lock of flash CLSID by "kill bit"
FYI : this script is locked for XP use only.
You want to check code before launching ?
No problem, just unzip the .exe and open vbs file with
notepad
Ini file is for registry rights change.
Hope this helps
Cheers
~Jean-Marc~
http://docxp.mvps.org
http://msmvps.com/blogs/docxp/

Self-Duplicating and Self-deleting tracks.

So, I checked around, but I can't find my issue anywhere. The topics must either be in plain sight or not around...
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