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Is this the proper forum for issues regarding potential security(privacy) risks while using Macromedia Flash and OSX?

No. If you want to report this to Apple, send a bug report (or enhancement request) via its Bug Reporter system. Join the Apple Developer Connection (ADC)—it's free and available for all Mac users and gets you a look at some development software. Since you already have an Apple username/ID, use that. Once a member, go to Apple BugReporter and file your bug report/enhancement request. You'll get a get a Bug (ER) ID number; thus, starting a dialog directly with engineering.

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Can't update or uninstall Macromedia Flash player!

Hi folks!
I've got a problem concerning the automatically installed Flash player. I am using a Qosmio G20.
While installing a new program (Lexware Financial Office) this program tried to update the Macromedia Flash player to the newest version. But the deinstallation of the old player was interrupted and the following message was displayed:
The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.
Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package 'install_flash_player_7.msi' in the box below.
Use source:
C:\Sysprep\
Closing this window does end the whole installation process of this new program.
After that I opened the list of installed programs to uninstall Flash manually, but with the same result.
Then I searched the internet for this install_flash_player_7.msi. I found the file but I still can't remove or update the Flash Player.
As a last chance I backed up all my data and used the recovery DVD to reinstall the whole system. Without installing any additional application, I had a look at the list of installed programs and guess what? The Flash Player has already been installed, so it is part of the recovery DVD.
But why can't it be uninstalled? I really need to get rid of the old player to be able to install Lexware Financial Office...
Thank you for your help in advance!
Yvonne

Thanks Eldorado,
but I think I explained it not exactly enough: I know that the old Flash installation is looking for a file that seems to be on antoher pc / server / disc or what ever, but the problem is, that I did not install the Flash Player that I would like to remove, respectively upadte to the newest version.
It is part of the Toshiba Recovery DVD. That means, after killing the HD and setting up the system completely new with the Toshiba Recovery DVD, this little tricky Flash Player is already installed.
It seems to be that there is a wrong link or setup on this DVD. But if that is the case, I can not be the only one with this problem, or?
And is there any way to remove this thing manually?
Again, thanks in advance.
Y. Lamm

Sizing photo's in Photoshop to use in Macromedia Flash MX 2004

Am trying to create a gallery for webpage using Macromedia Flash MX 2004, have imported photo's into library and got the Flash gallery to publish. But am concerned as the flash .swf file is only 273kb with 20 images in it, the existing gallery file I am wanting to replace is approximaately 2.5mb.
I was advised to downsize each photo to 300x200 pixels which seems to fit the display in the flash file. Thought maybe I am doing something wrong in Photoshop when I am resizing each photo from original 3 or 4 mb photo down to the 300x200 pixel size. Any clues out there?

I really know nothing about Macromedia Flash, but since no one has given any responses my thought is that if doing an action you need small pictures so they will load quickly.
If you resize save as new image so the quality images are not destroyed. If you have a lot of pictures to resize check out Bridge/tools/photoshop/image processor.

Adobe Premiere Pro 2 and Macromedia Flash MX 2004

I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 and have recently installed Macromedia Flash MX 2004.
Now when I go to export to Flash I don't get the Adobe Premiere's Flash Export dialog box when I press "Options" from the Export Settings. I get the Flash MX Professional 2004 "Flash Video (FLV) Exporter." It doesn't allow me to change any of the parameters.
I then un-installed Macromedia Flash MX 2004 but still get the same "Flash Video (FLV) Exporter."
Any ideas on how to get the Premiere exporter back?

Well there is no answer to my question, but I did finally get the Adobe Media Encoder dialog box to come back again.
After uninstalling Premiere and QuickTime, then shutting down the computer, rebooting and logging on to the Admin account, shutting down again, rebooting again, logging in to the Admin account again ...
I then went in to the registry and removed all the Entries that had either of these in it:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\DVA\COM
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\DVA\FLASH
and these as well
C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTComponents\FLV.qtx
C?\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTComponents\FLV.qtx
Rebooted the computer, logged back in to Admin.
I then re-installed QuickTime, and rebooted.
I then installed Premiere and the Adobe Media Encoder Flash dialog now shows up.
I'd be careful messy with the registry if you are trying to fix this type of problem. Try uninstalling quicktime and premiere and do the above shutdown, reboot sequence a number of times before doing anything to the registry.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that Flash Website I've working on...

I have an old file that was made by macromedia flash,but I can't run this file in my Windows 7 64-bit ,while I can run it in Windows XP 32-bit

I have an old file that was made by macromedia flash,but I can't run this file in my Windows 7 64-bit ,while I can run it in Windows XP 32-bit

Hi momi macrom,
Have moved your post to the Flash forum. Experts here are better placed to help you.
Thanks,
Preran

Macromedia Flash won't work

Hello, Folks, I am having problems with any webpage that uses
"flash" animation. (Please be kind- I know mechanics and hands-on
things, but have a hard time with computers!) I have read some of
the threads here that deal with a similar topic, but don't
understand a lot of what I read. You guys are WAY above my head.
I am running Windows XP and IE 6. I recently ran the
Microsoft Windows updates (on April 02, I think, so I don't know if
it included the troublesome Active-X change or not). Now it seems
that some of the video/ picture features just aren't working right.
If I hold the cursor arrow over the place where the animation
should be, I get a message that says "click to activate or use this
control", but clicking does nothing. Right-clicking, then selecting
"settings" brings up a control panel for Macromedia Flash Player 8.
I selected "Allow" and "remember", but no change. I tried updating
the Macromedia, but it didn't help; completely wiping out the
program and reinstalling, as suggested by Macromedia, didn't work
either.
I have turned off pop-up blockers, emptied temporary and
cookie files, etc. to no avail. The animated pages WORK when logged
in under my wife's name. (!?) The Macromedia page works and runs
under her name, and shows that the program is installed, which it
will not do under my user name. I have disabled the Microsoft IE
pop-up blocker, and a "Popup Manager" program on my username, and
it still won't work. All of these are running on hers, too (and are
not disabled). Any ideas where to start? What would be different
from one username to another that would cause this?
Okay, some more information. The yellow pop-up bar ("Pop-up
blocked") under the toolbar never appears, so I never have a chance
to click on it to allow the information.
I tried loading Mozilla Firefox, and loaded the appropriate
Mcromedia version for it, and Mozilla does the exact same thing-
just blank boxes where the animation should be. The animated pages
still work, on IE and Firefox, on my wife's sign-in pages.
I am running AVG antivirus, Ad-Aware SE Personal, CCleaner,
Spysweeper, Spybot Search and Destroy, PopupManager, and
Spywareblaster. I have disabled these as much as I know how, but
nothing changes.
Thinking more on this, a month or so back Trend Micro online
virus scan found an infection by a virus named Anyman or something
to that effect. It recommended removing a file, which I believe was
a .dll file, but I am not sure of specifics. Normally I keep good
documentation of such things, but the paper I wrote this down on
has disappeared. Is there a file linked to animation that would be
found in each individual user's section of XP, that possibly could
have been deleted only from mine? Any good way to find it?
I truly appreciate your consideration. Thanks again,
Woodtroll

I think the solution is a matter of directory permissions.
Make sure your login/user has the same permissions as your
wife's login/user. It might just be a matter of changing your
account type to administrator in the User Accounts control panel.
You should especially check that you have permissions to:
Windows C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application
Data\Macromedia\Flash Player
This is where flash stores it's cookies and Flash could be
having trouble changing them due to lack of permissions under your
login so it can't make any changes to your Flash Player settings.
I had the same problem when logging in to the network at
work.
If I logged in to the PC via the network server Flash would
display the symptoms you're describing. Different user logins to
the server would not work either but if I logged in to the PC
locally, Flash worked fine. I think this is because when logging in
via the network server, Flash tries to store the cookies on the
server and it can't. I'm going to try to get the network manager to
allow Flash access to this directory and hopefully that will fix
the problem.
Good luck to you, I spent a lot of hours finally figuring
this out.
-Joe

Why does Java Application not working with Macromedia Flash 5 or MX?

Why does Java Application not working with Macromedia Flash 5 or MX?

Who says they don't?
Although I don't know much about those I'd think they should be able to talk to Java Aps using Sockets or request Servlets ...
Spieler

Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 not running on Intel iMac

SIGH. This is added to the enormous list of problems I've had with my new Intel iMac.
I'm a pro user and am confused as to why Dreamweaver MX will run but I can't get Flash MX 2004 Professional to run. It starts up, loads fonts and what not, shows a blank timeline for the new document as it should and as soon as the GUI for Flash comes up ka-boom it crashes.
Then I get the general "unexpectedly quit" notification.
Anyone else having this problem? Is Rosetta a synonym for Lucifer?
This is what the error says if it's of any use to anyone:
Date/Time: 2006-03-11 16:21:34.878 -0600
OS Version: 10.4.5 (Build 8G1454)
Report Version: 4
Command: Flash
Path: /Applications/Macromedia Flash MX 2004/Flash MX 2004/Contents/MacOS/Flash
Parent: WindowServer [58]
Rosetta: Yes
Version: 2004 (7.0)
PID: 14038
Thread: 0
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000028
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 LaunchCFMApp 0xb808087b 0xb8000000 + 526459
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb807b09e 0xb8000000 + 503966
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb808f402 0xb8000000 + 586754
3 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80e46ca spinlockwrapper + 5140
Thread 1:
0 LaunchCFMApp 0xb81f2a9b strchr + 72
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb818e1da pthreadcondwait + 3114
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb812a660 catchexception_raise_stateidentity + 320
3 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8129b8a CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 174048
4 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8129a81 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 173783
5 LaunchCFMApp 0xb812a75e catchexception_raise_stateidentity + 574
6 LaunchCFMApp 0xb81c3bbc pthread_create + 1124
Thread 2:
0 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80f7eeb spinlockwrapper + 85045
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8122a64 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 145082
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8125515 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 156011
3 LaunchCFMApp 0xb809a2e6 0xb8000000 + 631526
Thread 3:
0 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80f7eeb spinlockwrapper + 85045
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8122a64 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 145082
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8125515 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 156011
3 LaunchCFMApp 0xb809a2e6 0xb8000000 + 631526
Thread 4:
0 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80f8030 spinlockwrapper + 85370
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb810bc0d CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 51299
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80818b6 0xb8000000 + 530614
3 LaunchCFMApp 0xb807b09e 0xb8000000 + 503966
4 LaunchCFMApp 0xb808f402 0xb8000000 + 586754
5 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80e46ca spinlockwrapper + 5140
Thread 5:
0 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80f7d28 spinlockwrapper + 84594
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8110e54 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 72362
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80818b6 0xb8000000 + 530614
3 LaunchCFMApp 0xb807b09e 0xb8000000 + 503966
4 LaunchCFMApp 0xb808f402 0xb8000000 + 586754
5 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80e46ca spinlockwrapper + 5140
Thread 0 crashed with i386 Thread State:
eax: 0x00000003 ebx: 0xb807ae10 ecx:0x00000028 edx: 0x00000000
edi: 0x82010f80 esi: 0x00000028 ebp:0xb7fffa08 esp: 0xb7fffa00
ss: 0x0000002f efl: 0x00010246 eip:0xb808087b cs: 0x00000027
ds: 0x0000002f es: 0x0000002f fs:0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
Binary Images Description:
0x1000 - 0x2fff LaunchCFMApp /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Support/LaunchCFMApp

I'm on a Mac and don't had this problem. But I do watch for
video issues on this site and haven't seen this – I might
have missed a few, but most Flash users are on Windows so I think
it would be common if it were something wrong with Flash in
general.
Then again, what do I know? Because the more I'm thinking
about it the more I think I might have had this problem. But I
really can't remember. And sorry to say the solution was to not use
the import function to edit my videos.
You also might want to just see if it is the format of the
file you are importing. Perhaps a different source will work
better? I'm just grasping at straws here.
If you have many of these to do and a budget I suggest
getting a third party tool like Squeeze. Otherwise if you have some
third party editor you might want to use that.
Good luck!

PDF opening in a macromedia flash application

Hello,
Im not a mac user, but we use mac in our company.
Im a webdesigner, working on windows XP, using macromedia flash (in this case Flash MX).
My problem is, we build applications on dvd and cd's and we are trying to make them usable on macOS, besides Linux and windows.
Things were working fine, till MacOS 10...
The problem is, that in some applications we use pdf files that are on the cd's or dvd's, that are not opening anymore in those OS version's 10..., we use a command in flash (actionScript) that is: getURL (....path.pdf).
It worked really good in the ealier OS's from Mac, now when we click on the link, it open Safari, with the default page it uses.
Anyone has any idea about why it happens?
Im sorry my english, not my native language, and thank you very much in advance for your time.
Hugo

Hello again,
I've tried install FireFox on the Mac, and PDF Browser viewer plugin, and selected FireFox to open by default the pdf's files, it happen's the same, it opens FireFox with his default page, no pdf from the cd...
Im affraid that the cd's and DVD's with Flash applications with Pdf's files will not be able to open on Mac's with OS 10....
The application works really good on Linux and Windows platforms.
Thanks

"Can't locate macromedia flash" error

I keep getting the error message "cant' locate
macromedia flash" and can't seem to get rid of it. I have tried
downloading the uninstall software twice, but to no avail. I also
can't locate the flashplayer on my computer. I have windows
XP

F18Goose wrote:
> When I updated my DW8 to the lastest update I found that
I can not enable or
> installed any extensions. I have also downloaded new
extensions and tried
> installing them using the Update Manager v1.7. However,
after going through
> the process to install an extension I get the error "
Can't update menus.
> Extension will not be installed.." Please advise
how I can fix this
> problem so that I can use extensions with DW8 again.
Thank you.
This is a bug in Extension Manager where from time to time
one of the XML files that Dreamweaver uses gets corrupted in some
fashion and Extension manager can't edit it any longer. I've found
that it's Menus.xml in the User folder that tends to be the issue.
For DW8, the file should be located here:
C:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\Application
Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration\Menus\menus.xml
Mac:
HD:Users:username:Library: Application
Support:Macromedia:Dreamweaver MX
2004:Configuration:Menus:Menus.xml
So, how to to fix this issue. Sometimes you can uninstall all
of your extensions and reinstall them one at a time.
If that doesn't work, then you may be able to get away with
deleting the Menus.xml file (make sure it is only the one within
the username folder and not within the program install folder).
Note: this action will cause any extension that added menu items to
have those menu items removed. disabling and reenablign the
extensions shoudl bring them back.
Failing that, removing the user configuration folder (or even
renaming it) may help. Note: This will cause all extensions to be
removed from within Dreamweaver, so you'll have to reinstall.
If none of that works, then you may have to resort to
uninstalling DW, removing the user configuration folders, and then
reinstalling DW.
Danilo Celic
| Extending Knowledge Daily :
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| Adobe Community Expert

Cant uninstall Macromedia Flash Player 6

My system is unable to uninstall and upgrade from Macromedia Flash Player 6.0 r21. I have tried the Flash Player uninstall and the Flash Player 6 uninstall. I have manually deleted the Flash.ocx files wherever they occur.
The Adobe Website acknowledges the latest Flash Player installed on my system, but when right click on a flash file I still only get the oprion of open with: Macromedia Flash Player 6.0 r21.
Ther are files which prompt me to upgrade to the latest Flash Player, which I have done on many occasions. Remove programs does not even list the Macromedia Flash Player 6.
I have even tried to upgrade to the later versions of versions Macromedia Flash Player 6, without success. I simply cannot get rid of Macromedia Flash Player 6.0 r21
I have Windows XP home SP2
Can anybody help?

"The Adobe Website acknowledges the latest Flash Player installed on my system, but when right click on a flash file I still only get the oprion of open with: Macromedia Flash Player 6.0 r21."
Flash is designed to play SWF content inside a browser. It's a browser plugin. It's not designed to open local SWF on your system as an installed application. So when you update to Flash player 10, you're updating your Flash Player ActiveX control (for IE windows) or the Flash Player plugin (for Firefox and all other OS/browsers).
So, when you point your browser to http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome and it says you have Flash Player 10 then you have the most recent version. If you need to open a local SWF launch your browser and use file:open
Now, if you really want to try to get the older player off your machine I'd use the command line uninstall in http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402435.html
(but keep in mind that should uninstall ALL Flash Player files from your machine, so you'd have to resinstall FP10 afterwards).

"Macromedia Flash Player"; vs. "Flash Player?"

My new camera says
I need to download "Macromedia Flash Player": is that the same as "Flash Player?
I tried to download the new Flash Player just in case and kept getting an error. During the download attempts it said I already had it (flash player) and asked if I wanted to rerun it. That's what failed repeatedly. It keep telling me I had to close "conflicting" Yahoo Messenger and Internet Explorer before it could continue. How do I close something that isn't running? I am "multiply" confused. Can you advise?

Hopefully everything will work now, but I'm still confused. I didn't get a chance to follow your instructions because in the process of trying to figure out how to close internet explorer and yahoo messenger without shutting down the install page; I succeded and then Incredimail popped up on the screen to "complete" the install it had been trying to do since yesterday. As soon as I managed to close those programs, it was all automatic. I restarted AGAIN, just to make sure. I went to the link you sent and it says I have:
You have version 10,1,53,64 installed
However, when I open program "add/delete" on my computer; as before, it lists the Flash Player but there aren't any MB listed like all the other programs have. I know it's working because Incredimail came back on. Of course, initially I tried loading the new player because my photo program claimed it couldn't run without it. Why would they say that if I already had it because it appears that I did until I started messing with things. Somehow it then went away. I'll try my photo program again tomorrow if I can find time. I have 2 doctor appointments.
Thanks so much for all your help. I hope you don't mind if I "keep you", at least until I make sure the photo program is happy with the Flash Player. Thanks and good night
Patti

Macromedia flash player

hi,
i try to uninstall macromedia flash player plug-in but it seems there has been a bug on the install, windows doesn't want to uninstall it, can i do it manually to get it out of my windows program list ?

I am very frustrated.......All sound disappered from any Flash content or sites that use Flash. I have removed Flash player and reinstalled several times but still no sound..I tried disk utility(repair disk permissions).....it said it fixed permissions with Flash player but still dosesnt work.....I am also suddenly having trouble with Windows Media Player......I never had any problems before Last week with any of these players or any issues with Safari.... Does recent Itunes or Safari downloads have anything todo with this problem
Please help if you can..
Zach

System requirements for Macromedia Flash Player

Hi i was wondering if any one could help me i had a new
computer that's a Pentium 4. I was unable to install Macromedia
Flash Player so i looked at the system requirements and found that
only Pentium lll and below can support it. Is there any thing i can
do?????

Perhaps you misread the requirements. I believe for flash
player 9 and 8 the requirments says Pentium II 450 or
better.

"Cannot find the Macromedia Flash"

I have requested help with constant pop-up error messages
stating merely "Cannot find the Macromedia Flash" ever since
downloading the latest Adobe Flash player. I received zero replies!
I now cannot even find my post but have found that someone else had
posted the exact same problem back in August of 2006, which also
received zero replies. I cannot believe no one here has a clue or
that I and this other person are the only two people to have
experienced this problem. Since this message pops up at least a
dozen or more times a day with no clue as to which possible
application is producing it, I thought I will post this request for
help as many times as I can until someone is annoyed enough to at
least point me in the direction of finding the culprit and
eliminating this message and stop the constant posts!

when do you get this message?

How do I delete home directory /Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\Player ?

How do I delete<home directory>/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\Player?

Note that it'll be created over every time you load a Flash object in a Web browser (at least if it has Flash enabled).
The only way to consistently get rid of all its content would be to create an AppleScript, or use Automator to create a workflow that would empty this folder when you close the browser.

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