I couldn't open swf files

Flash Player is installed but I couldn't open swf files

Hi Susana, I thought I couldn't open swf files too until I got one with sound. I minimized my windows on top and found it playing on the bottom window. This happens with both videos and Jpegs sent to me from a Mac; I am using a PC with Windows Live Mail. Therefore I think this problem is due to Shock Wave Format files (swf).
I haven't found the solution to this yet, but I have isolated it.
Sam

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Sorry, we couldn't open your file using this feature. Visio Web Access is not available on this site.

Recently installed Service Pack 1 in SharePoint Server 2013 Farm, post upgrade we are experiencing issue when opening visio documents:
I am trying to open .vsdx (visio 2013) file but encounter following issue:
Sorry, we couldn't open your file using this feature. Visio Web Access is not available on this site.
Under Document library-->Library settings-->Advanced Settings
Still I cant open file in browser as we always used to. Unfortunately we don't have Visio services in Farm.
can you share your experiences regarding this issue post Sp1 SharePoint Server 2013.
Thank You

Hi Octopus,
Based on the error message, it seems that the Visio Graphics Service is not started or the Enterprise feature is not enabled.
I recommend to check the things below:
Go to Central Administration > System Settings > Manage service on server > check if the Visio Graphics Service is started > then click Application Management > Manage service applications > check if the Visio Graphics Service application
is created.
Go to the root site settings page of the site where you got this error, click Site collection features to check if the SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Collection Features is enabled.
Go to the site settings page of the site where you got this error, click Manage site feature to check if the SharePoint Server Enterprise Site Features is enabled.
More information about the Visio Graphics Service:
http://tutorial.programming4.us/windows_server/microsoft-sharepoint-2013---looking-at-visio-services-(part-3)---visio-graphics-service-service-application.aspx
Best regards.
Thanks
Victoria Xia
TechNet Community Support

How do I set Adobe Flash Player as the default program to open SWF files?

Basic Overview
I have this working fine at my home laptop, however I need this working for projects at school.
Whenever I want to open an SWF file at home, I simply double click it and open it in Adobe Flash Player (Adobe Flash Player 10.0 r22) and I have no problems!
However, when I am at school I have to run SWF files within Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash Player IS installed, but the SWF files are not opened in that directly, they are opened within Internet Explorer.
At Home
If I right click an SWF file at home and select "Open With" and then "Choose Default Program...", Adobe Flash Player is already there under the name 'Adobe Flash Player 10.0 r22', so I can simply select it as the default. (On my home laptop)
At School
At school if go to "Open With" and then "Choose Default Program...", Adobe Flash Player IS NOT there, only Internet Explorer and some other programs in the other programs box. (On my school laptop)
Question
How can I assign Adobe Flash Player as the default program for opening SWF files (on my school laptop)? If I select "Browse..." and go to C:\WINDOWS\System32\Macromed\Flash there is no file with a description of 'Adobe Flash Player 10.0 r22', is the file for the actual program located somewhere else or have I just no looked properly in the folder?
I really need these files opening in Adobe Flash Player directly and not in Internet Explorer (I know you can set the view to 100% and have it sized correctly)
Thanks you to everyone who helps!
-Charlie! (Yes I know I don't need to write this in a forum)

The standard Flash Player is a browser add-on, and not a standalone player. So what actually opens when you open an SWF file at home? Flash Player Projector?
If so, you also need to download it at your school, from http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html, then do the file association.

Can't open *.swf files in pc.

It dint cross my mind, when i installed win 7 ultimate x86 2 weeks ago and installed adobe cs4 master suite, to check whether i can open swf files or not. I just like always, downloaded ADM, and installed Flash player 10.1. The web videos were all working fine, except on facebook, where the videos and uploader keeps prompting me to get latest flash player EVEN AFTER I INSTALLED 10.1 version thrice. But i dint care abt it since i dont watch videos on facebook anyways.
The issue is about swf files. Everything regarding to flash, even flash animations, work perfectly well on the internet, whether it be firefox or any other, but today i was designing a photo gallery for my portfolio, and pressed test movie to see if it was looking good. Everything worked in the test movie.
But when i open, some tutorial included swf's or my own created swf's, the famous error comes which states"WINDOWS CANT OPEN THIS FILE. TO OPEN THIS KIND OF FILE WINDOWS NEED TO KNOW WHAT PROGRAM TO USE TO OPEN IT". When i click "select program from installed programs", i cant find Flash Player anywhere on my pc. Now wtf am i supposed to do if my swf's cant open (not on the internet) but on my pc. Please tell me. don't suggest uninstalling cs4 or flash player and reinstalling, because i already did that countless times. Should i get olders flash player versions?
Please don't tell me i will have to reinstall windows for i then i will have to reinstall so much.

guys! Big news, somehow, i just uninstalled flash cs4 and all the flash components along with plugin and activex. Then restarted pc. Then reinstalled flash cs4, then downloaded flash player and installed it. and VOILA! It works now. i can easily open all the swf files now. No more need for the solution. although you can look for solution if in future someone else acquires the problem

Installed shockwave.....but cant open swf files.....

Eventhough I have installed shockwave player and flash, I am not able to open swf files. Whenever I double click on the swf file, it tells me that windows cannot open this file and asks me to choose what program I need to open it.
Any advise please...

Hi, Flash Player is a browser plugin, not a standalone Player. You may want to reveiw here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
Hope that helps,
eidnolb

Opening SWF Files in the Application window

Hello Everyone,
We have a problem in opening .swf files in our application.
We had quick time movies(.mov) which we used to open and
play inside the application window, using QuickTime Framework APIs
in the code.
Presently we had converted these quicktime movies(.mov) into
.swf files and we are unable to open the same using Quick Time
Framework in MacOSX.
Can you please suggest me as how should I proceed, i.e which
framework should I use in the code to open and play .swf files in
the application window?
It will be better, if you can send me a small sample code to
use in my application for MacOSX.
Awaiting for your kind reply,
Thanking you,
With Best regards,
Anil.

Hi Vaibhav,
I need to display the serarch results in the same window.
I have followed the steps mentioned by you in the thread
<i> Search Results in the Same Window..as we have in SDN</i>
Even after making changes to 2 PAR files mentioned in the above thread, on click
of Search button nothing happens.
It will be great if you can send me your modified PAR files, to identify where i am
going wrong. My mail id is [email protected]
Thanking you,
Vikas

Received a pdf by email, when i attempt to open it, I get the message "File Error-couldn't open the file", is there some way I can open it? Thanks, Graham

Hi,
Received a pdf by email. When I attempt to open it, I receive the message, "File Error- Couldn't open the file", is there any way I can open it?
Thanks,
Graham

Are you using Adobe Reader or Preview to view the file? Can you get the sender to resend the file?
 Cheers, Tom

I can't open swf files for schoolwork. Installed VCL, Flip4Mac and Adobe flash and shockwave players. Can get white screen with connection erro message with adobe flash player. Help me!

i can't open swf files for schoolwork. Installed VCL, Flip4Mac and Adobe flash and shockwave players. Can get white screen with connection erro message with adobe flash player. Help me!

Apple dropped playback support for .swf formats in QuickTime almost ten years ago.
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Can't set flash player as default app to open SWF files on mac

This is the weirdest thing. Somehow the default application
to open SWF files on my mac has changed from the Flash Player to a
random Mac Projector file (i.e. presentation.app) that I published
from Flash for another project. So whenever I double click an SWF
it opens both the file I clicked and the other projector file. They
are in separate windows but if I close one of them they both close.
To try to fix this I went to my SWF hit cmd+i for the info,
changed the Open with application to the Flash Player and hit
change all. After I close the info box and try to open the file,
the same thing happens. It reverts back to opening with the random
projector. So I tried deleting the projector to see what would
happen and instead of opening in the regular flash player it went
and found another random projector file to be the default
application. WTF is going on?!

I wish I knew that has happened to me before as well. I never
found a solution. But eventually it seemed to go away on its
own.

HT200250 I couldn't open the files from a Canon XF 300 so I downloade the plugin from Apple but still can't open the files. I opened and clicked on the installer icon. I'm not sure the plugin was actually installed. can anyone help?

I couldn't open the files from a Canon XF 300 into Final Cut Pro 7, so I downloade the plugin from Apple but still can't open the files. I opened and clicked on the installer icon. I'm not sure the plugin was actually installed. C
an anyone help?
Message was edited by: BigDealCam123

As you probably know the Canon plug-in enables Log & Transfer in FCP7. I'm not sure whether it works with Final Cut Express or not.
Look in Applications>Canon Utilities. I'm running 10.6 as well and that is where it's located on my machine.
Good luck.
Russ

Couldn't open a file

Hello, this morning I couldn't open any files from my iCloud, anyone having same issue?
Error message:
The file “[file_name].pages” couldn’t be opened.
Version: 5.1 (1769)
Thanks,
~M

I'm seeing the same issue with iCloud, I've been using Apple iCloud since the inception, but there is something going on with the file sync lately. I purchased more storage and I'm getting the above issue after saving a file to iCloud, the sync processing seems to invalidate the file. I've mostly seen this with image and PDF files that I've created or saved, but also Excel when saving.
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MacBook Pro 15" Retina and iMac 5K all running the latest Yosemite all having the same issue.

Error Message.."Couldn't open the file. It may be corrupt or a file format that Preview doesn't recognize."

Hi, This may be a common problem, I've browsed through posts here...anyway help required please! This morning I downloaded 108 photo's from my Canon EOS1000, same as I've ever done for the last few years. They seemed to load okay as they have always done, but just five minutes later I tried to open them and had this dreaded message "Couldn’t open the file. It may be corrupt or a file format that Preview doesn’t recognize." I've checked file extensions etc. and they're all JPEG's - and the information on each photo looks similar to photos' in the stuff I downloaded last week.
Have I lost these photo's? Can they be retrieved? Of course I selected the "delete photo's from camera option on downloading.....
Any help greatly appreiated
Bill
Kent
England

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Latex: couldn't open style file spbasic.bst

I really don't know hot to put this, so excuse me.
If you are working with latex and you are using the Springer styles (from package latex-template-springer ) but when you compile your bibliography you get an error like this:
couldn't open style file spbasic.bst
You can fix it copying the file spbasic.bst to other place (more correct, I think)
sudo cp /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/svmult/styles/spbasic.bst /usr/share/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/springer/
sudo texhash
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stonecrest wrote:Does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf have the right path for the modules directory? Since it looks like your fonts path is wrong, I'm guessing your modules path is wrong as well. If you upgraded to xorg7 from 6.*, you have to make some changes.
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xorgconfig
just now but..in the future..what i have to change if i upgrade from 6 to 7? is not enough run again
hwd -x
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IE not opening swf file but it is opening at mozzila as weel as netscape

Hi All,
IE not opening swf file but it is opening at mozzila as weel
as netscape
see following link at netscape & IE and mozilla too
http://ugmumlmri40/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=DIMENSIONFLASH&i.test=1
Thanks,
Ganesh

that's a strange looking url.

Cannot Open .SWF file

Hi Expert,
I am a fresh man to Xcelsius
I met a issue which may be very simple to you but I do not know how to solve it
I create one Dashboard via Xcelsius 2008 SP3 then export it into .SWF file
Then when I open .SWF file vie IE8, it always ask me to open/save/cancel this file (like you download one file into your local PC)
If I choose open, it will repeat the steps to ask me to open/save/cancel.
But my colleage could open this doucment directly without any issue
Could you kindly let me know how solve it?
Thanks and best regards
Alex yang

Hi Yung,
While exporting ,export the Xcelsius dashboard to bo enterprise which asks the server name,user id and password.
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