Linking several Flash movies together

I created 5 "movies" in Captivate and published as .swf files
with accompanying .htm files. The Captivate file, .swf, and .htm
files are all in a folder on our website and therefore should be
accessible to the Internet. I've linked the first movie from
Contribute and published but the other links "were not found on
website or in a directory listing".
What next? Our webmaster isn't sure and neither am I. I don't
want to combine all 5 movies into one because we are in a rural
area with 56K users.

"Bizmarck27" <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:e4ij6q$i34$[email protected]..
>I created 5 "movies" in Captivate and published as .swf
files with accompanying
> .htm files. The Captivate file, .swf, and .htm files are
all in a folder on our
> website and therefore should be accessible to the
Internet. I've linked the
> first movie from Contribute and published but the other
links "were not found
> on website or in a directory listing".
>
> What next? Our webmaster isn't sure and neither am I. I
don't want to combine
> all 5 movies into one because we are in a rural area
with 56K users.
If you can't see the files in a directory listing, why do you
think they are on the website?
Your upload of the files must have failed for some reason. If
the files are there you can access them with a direct link to the
file to test..
http://mywebsite.com/myswf.swf
If you get a 404 file not found, then it ain't there!
tralfaz

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