Re: FLASH: Flash 3 corupt FLA 2!

[John Croteau]

Hi Jayma,


> Not the exact same error, but I am running on a Mac, and had a Flash

> crash recently. When I tried to reopen the file... I got an "Invalid

> File" error, losing 5 hours of work since my last backup. It's got me

> paranoid enough that I am double saving everything (master and backup)

> every 10 minutes or so! I was never able to get that file back, but it

> looked to be all there (file size). Would love to hear if someone

> knows if you can save these files, or do you just take in the chin and

> start over?

Until recently most lost FLAs I've heard about have been on Macs.

My success rate at recovering FLAs has been very poor 1 in about 7

attempts with no good methodology yet. For five or ten hours of lost

work it isn't worth investing the time to try to save an FLA file. At

least not so far. If we're lucky someone will lose a very important file

so I can afford to try and save it. And if I'm successful and we're

lucky I might find a common trait in some failed FLAs files. If it just

lost graphics usually they can be extracted from the SWF file.

SWF is open but not FLA so there are few details about how an FLA is

constructed.


If you have a Flash file that seems to be acting strangely I suggest

that you copy and paste all the frames into a new movie just in case the

file has been corrupted. This will prevent a single error in a file from

compounding into a FLA file that is totally unusable. If you can open a

bad file this is always the method you should use to recover your work. 


This is another reason not to use Scenes you can copy and paste all your

frames in your whole movie at once with a single Scene. If you have

dozens it is one Scene at a time.


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