Re: FLASH: Flash 3 corupt FLA 2!

[Jim Curry]

You have my sympathys.  Its happened to me before.  I rarely have this

problem with other graphics program.  Flash seems to be tough with this

problem.  I wonder if there is a software solution?

JC


Jayma wrote:

> 

> Boy, don't I know that now.  There was a ton of drawings that I lost in

> that "Invalid file".  Unfortunately, the default on the test exports WAS

> set to protect.  An error I will not repeat!

> 

> >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.

> >

> >

> >

> >----------

>

>>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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