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September 13, 2010
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Flash CS5 randomly deleting library content

  • September 13, 2010
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Sorry if this isn't the right sub-forum but it seemed to be the closest to my issue as far as I can see.

Hello,

I'm working on a  rather large project at work using CS5 Flash. The project involves  loading several .swf files at different times from a main 'hub' type  structure. Think of it as a multi-channel platform and when you click on  the channel you want, it loads the sub-swf with the videos and movie  clip contents/as code in it.

As one can imagine, this has  cause the overall project to grow quite huge. When we open up the main  fla file that contains the library content of it's children fla's, some  files will randomly go missing.  These files are being shared over a  network with various people via a file repository system so no two  people can be working on the same file at the same time. This doesn't  appear to be the problem, nor is accidental deletion as an individual  can check out the files, work on them locally, save them locally, close  and reopen them  locally and random content will be missing again.

We  believe that the issue may have to do with the overall size of the  fla's (the fla's range in size from 16mb to 3mb).  They will be playing  as stand alone objects, not on a website so other outside content isn't  an issue. Some of the computers being used are 64 bit system while  others are 32 but all systems have had the issue. We are also using AIR  to help with some of the functionality but this issue started before we  started using AIR.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

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Participant
March 16, 2011

Did you ever get any resolution with this issue? I am having this too, in multiple projects that aren't connected.

I even had the same exact MCs in the library in multiple FLAs just in case this happened. When it did, I attempted to drag the MCs from one FLA (where they were NOT deleted) into one where where they WERE deleted....thinking that I would be able to hit "replace" all since the MCs were named the same....when they appeared on the stage they were empty! It wasn't until I deleted the old MCs (with the missing content) that the new ones would show up when dragged over.

If you have ANY resolution to this please let me know. I am surprised that this isn't a major issue with more people.

I even have this issue on different Macs using different installed software!

So this is systemic!