Re: FLASH: Flash 3 corupt FLA 2!

[Wayne Townsend]

This happens a lot in *many* development environments.  In the SuperCard

group, some enterprising fellows wrote various routines to recover crashed

files.  And they work most of the time.


Since the conditions and results of these file crashes are surely common

and identifiable, this is doable.  With the possible problem that marketing

doesn't want to acknowledge that any problem exists or that this ever

happens.  This is Ostrich thinking.  If Boeing can admit that their planes

do indeed crash once in a while, with dire results far worse than this,

then MM can recognize that Fla files get corrupted once in a while too.


The fact that this is indeed happening now and then with Flash needs to

recognized, and MM or a 3rd party "Norton-type" needs to develop such a

recovery tool.


Blame the problem on whatever, MM marketing, just allow the recovery tool

to be made!  Or somebody else get out there and do it.  I'd buy it.  So

would a lot of people in here.


Wishful thinking...


/w



>I suffered the same fate once. While I don't have a good suggestion for

>recovering the fla file, it might be worth pointing out that if you do all

>your production work with the movie export settings set to allow import of

>swfs, you can get at least the elements of the movie back by importing one

>of your test swfs.

>

>Obviously the degree to which this helps depends on how much time you've

>spent designing the elements & symbols vs. creating the animations, but in

>my case it helped a great deal since the bulk of the work was in designing

>the elements of the page. The animations were very straightforward.

>

>

>

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>

>From: John Croteau <croteauerols [dot] com>

>

>To: flashershocker [dot] com

>>Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash 3 corupt FLA 2!

>>Date: Fri, Feb 12, 1999, 5:15 PM

>>

>

>>> 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?

>

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