Problem running programs in Flash CS3

I'm a secondary school computer programming teacher with a frustrating problem.....
A student will write a program and run it. The result is perfect with no errors and it does exactly as it should.
If the student saves it, the program no longer displays in the run window.
If we copy and paste the code to a new file without making any changes and run it, it works perfectly again. If the student hands it in and I run it on my machine without changing things, it works perfectly.
There's something tied to a couple of my student's computer accounts that is making this happen. It happens on any computer they're logged in on.
Any thoughts? Suggestions?
Thanks in advance!

Ask in the Flash forum and provide proper technical information - which despite your otherwise longwinded post you haven't.
Mylenium

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I am working in Flash Cs3.
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Rajesh

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Mark,
> I have set my publish settings to Flash Player 9.0 and
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>
> "WARNING: The component 'FLVPlayback' requires
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Hello,
my flash cs3 is crashing every time I try to publish a file,
why? I run vista business 32 bit
I didn't have problems until today,using flash cs3 for the
last month
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Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: Flash.exe
Application Version: 9.0.0.494
Application Timestamp: 46015140
Fault Module Name: Flash.exe
Fault Module Version: 9.0.0.494
Fault Module Timestamp: 46015140
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Additional Information 2: b71b5bf9ea5ff08d6fffcb887aba95ff
Additional Information 3: 1fd9
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quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
I Love Doing Websites,
> my flash cs3 is crashing every time I try to publish a
file, why?
That description is about as wide open as it gets! ;)
Troubleshooting
is often like a detective story: the more clues one has to
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Well, my problem is that the cs3 starting to crash doesn't
really have an explanation for me. but I will put details here.
> I run vista business 32 bit
> I didn't have problems until today,using flash cs3 for
the last
> month
I don't have CS3 installed on Vista, so I'm afraid I can't
provide any
offhand suggestions. Since you haven't seen problems until
today, the first
thing that strikes me is: what happened with today's FLA that
was different
from your previous efforts? Did you import an unusual
external asset (even
if only unsual for you)? Maybe you imported a corrupted JPG
or PNG. Maybe
a bad font?
I did nothing with the fla that started the crash, I imported
some bitmaps and when trying to publish it, it crashed. Also, I
created another fla, imported some random jpgs 2 I believe, tried
to export it to the same folder, and cs3 crashed, saved the fla
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> Hint:
> If I save the same .fla in another folder, flash cs3
doesn't crash
> when publishing. why? this looks that is happening in
the root
> of the folder
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something not likely
to be easily reproduced. Since you can publish when saving to
another
folder, I would run with that workaround for the time being.
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your own
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only speak for
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common issue
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looking for
descriptive summaries. Many people post questions like "How
did they do
this?" or "Help!" or "Flash question" ... none of which
describe meaningful
topics. In my opinion, your subject line is useful, because
it briefly
summarizes your question. That's a good thing. When I read
the actual body
of your post, though, I quickly realized there wasn't enough
(for me, at
least) to give you a solid answer. In this case, I've tried
to give you a
few pointers anyway, but I'm only hazarding a few "try this"
type
suggestions.
It may be that others who read your post felt equally unable
to answer
your questions with confidence -- at least, as stated.
Well, I did some research on the internet and there is a
quite more few people having the same problem, here is the other
forum I found:
cs3
flash crash when publishing
I am sorry that I didn't post any more specifications of what
I was doing, but what I was doing was not something different or
unusual of what I have been doing for the last week at least. I was
just working with dw and flash together importing the .swf into an
html and launching the html from dw.
David Stiller
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>I just downloaded the new flash cs3 trial just to check
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>
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Ms. Clause wrote:
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RAM. I don't think I
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redownload and it still will
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