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Upgraded to Windows 8.1 broke Flash/AIR/ANEs

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November 4, 2014
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Here is the problem, been using Flash/AIR for years to build AIR powered apps. Recently built a new system running Windows 8.1

I transfer all my work over from the old Windows 7 machine and open up the .fla files, fix the links and test the file, here is the error.

The content cannot be loaded because there was a problem loading an extension: Error: Requested extension com.distriqt.Camera could not be found.

XPath error : Invalid expression

/userSettings/victims/*[exact_name='adl.exe']/(null)[1]/*[1]

^

XPath error : Invalid expression

/userSettings/victims/*[exact_name='adl.exe']/(null)[1]/*[1]

^

XPath error : Invalid expression

/userSettings/victims/*[exact_name='flash.exe']/(null)[1]/*[1]

^

XPath error : Invalid expression

/userSettings/victims/*[exact_name='flash.exe']/(null)[1]/*[1]

^

XPath error : Invalid expression

/userSettings/default/(null)[1]/*[1]

^

XPath error : Invalid expression

/userSettings/default/(null)[1]/*[1]

So seems like the .ane files are breaking the file somehow. So I make a blank file with nothing on it and it runs. Then I just add the .ane file into the publish settings and that breaks the app.

Anyone have any clue what is causing this. Is there some inherent incompatibility between AIR or ANEs and Windows 8.1? BTW I tested with the latest SDK 15.0.0.302 both in CC and CC2014.

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Correct answer Mark.fromOP

Well switched back to Windows 7 and all seems to be working but had the same issue at first. My guess is that it was caused by the old files looking for something from the OLD machine in the C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp folder. When this error originally came I up I went and found the files it was asking for on the old machine and copied to the new. This I believe is where the error above started causing issues, the .fla was looking for some sort of old extracted versions of the file which it was not finding due to new drive paths and only when I switched to 7 and instead of copying old files over, I deleted the folder it was looking for, did I resolve this although I am still not 100% certain that was the case. I also had issues with Flash not recognizing plugged in devices when trying to publish to device and going back to 7 solved this as well so I think Ill stick to 7 for now till 10 comes out but I wrote this up in case someone one day runs int this problem.

Mark.fromOPAuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Well switched back to Windows 7 and all seems to be working but had the same issue at first. My guess is that it was caused by the old files looking for something from the OLD machine in the C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp folder. When this error originally came I up I went and found the files it was asking for on the old machine and copied to the new. This I believe is where the error above started causing issues, the .fla was looking for some sort of old extracted versions of the file which it was not finding due to new drive paths and only when I switched to 7 and instead of copying old files over, I deleted the folder it was looking for, did I resolve this although I am still not 100% certain that was the case. I also had issues with Flash not recognizing plugged in devices when trying to publish to device and going back to 7 solved this as well so I think Ill stick to 7 for now till 10 comes out but I wrote this up in case someone one day runs int this problem.