RE: FLASH: Deleting unused items from the Library?

[Ricardo Madrazo]

Rebecca,


The reason is probably because you have a bitmap inside a symbol...


What I usually do when I want to clean up my library is I first grab the

largest symbol (let's say you have a bitmap inside a graphic symbol which is

inside a button symbol which is inside a movie symbol -- in that case, I

grab the movie clip first) and delete it.  Then all the symbols used in the

movie clip (if they are unique to that movie clip) will show up with a use

count of "0".  Then, to follow this example, I delete the buttons, then the

graphics contained in the button, and finally the bitmaps contained in the

graphic.


Look at it as unpacking a suitcase.


HTH


Ricardo Madrazo

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Subject: FLASH: Deleting unused items from the Library?



I have some button art that wasn't properly optimized and someone gave me a

new movie with new button art.  The problem is that if I try to paste their

button art over mine, it is still refering to the same graphic elements (non

optimized).  I tried deleting my buttons off the timeline and selecting

unused items in the library.  The problem is that it didn't think the

buttons were unused (it may have something to do with them being in a movie

clip) and it didn't select them.

I don't like the idea of just deleting things in my Library if it tells me

they are not unused (the thought makes me nervous, perhaps they are re-used

somewhere) but I can't figure out another way to replace my buttons.


So here are my questions:

1) Is it safe to delete an item from the Library that it doesn't tell you is

unused?  What happens if it is really used somewhere?  Does the art just go

away or does it fill in the void with something else (Director used to do

this...you could end up with scripts in graphical channels and all kinds of

nasty things would happen).


2) WHY aren't my unused items showing up as unused?  Bug?  By design?  Is

there a way to force them?


3) Why does pasting from one movie into another still refer to existing

symbols in the other movie?


I would love answers to any or all of these questions.


Thanks!

Rebecca


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