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June 23, 2006
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continuous download of Flash Player

  • June 23, 2006
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This has been going on for quite sometime and I've just never found any solution. On sites with Flash it asks me to download the player. I have the player already, but I download it anyway. The box on the Flash site shows that yes, I do have Flash installed now. Then I go back to the site that uses Flash and I'm back to the start - please download Flash Player.

I can't understand why if it's on my computer, why the site keeps asking me to download it again, yet it shows I do have it on my computer.

I started to use Macromedia Flash 8 Training from the Source, James English, and needed to play Flash in one of the tutorials. It sent me to the download site. I downloaded, shows the Flash movement in the sample box that if you have Flash you will see it in the box. I go back to the Flash site and once again - wants me to download Flash.

So it's just a continuous circle with no end.

Would anyone have ANY idea at all why something like this would happen? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I don't know what else to try.

PJ Kinann
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    Anonymous
    June 28, 2006
    how much inconvenience can I endure from Adobe Flash?

    Plenty.

    Will not integrate with IE.

    I have done EVERYTHING.

    Can only get it to work with Netscape.

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    Anonymous
    June 28, 2006
    Oh whoa......I'm so sorry you two are having problems. Here I started the thread because I was unaware ANYONE else was having problems and was hoping SOMEONE would listen, as this has been an issue for literally months!

    The solution for me and others was just downloading the OLD version of the Flash Player. I was amazed that it was that easy!

    I have no solutions because I'm just a Flash Player user, not programmer or geek.

    I can only hope that someone who really knows this stuff can step in and possibly help you with other issues that may be going on which doesn't allow your Flash Player to work.

    Sorry I can't help.
    PJ
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    Anonymous
    June 24, 2006
    See, this is from the other thread where others are having the same problem.

    racer25
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    Hi Everyone...

    Okay....Forget all the technical stuff.....Just redownload macromedia flashplayer 6...It is the old version that came with most of our computers. It was what was working before you downloaded the newest version. You don't have to do anything else. The address to find the old version#6 is:

    http://www.ahlrates.com/players/
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    Anonymous
    June 27, 2006
    Bad luck for me! I've followed the inststruction to unistall current version -> restart pc -> install v6.0 player -> restart pc and tested, not working for me (website tested www.nba.com). I also update a security patch to this v6.0 from microsoft. Not working for me :(

    Any other suggests???

    thanks,
    desperate-man
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    Anonymous
    June 23, 2006
    I'm not sure if Adobe participates in these forums or not. Probably not, huh? We're all just going on our own here! :(

    I was told that version 6 is the original player that installed with windows, so the newer version is reacting this way - wanting the continual download.

    Now, it seems to have worked for me and one other person, so why it's not working for you, I am sorry. I can't make any more suggestions.

    I've tried some of the Flash pages I could not view before and they are all working, but that's not to say that I may come across the ones that I crossed paths with earlier on and they may still not work. It could have something to do with each individual site.

    Did you try these various sites and see if you can view Flash on them? For example, go here: http://www.10minuteflash.com/examples.html and when you click on the 1, 2, 3 example sites, are you able to view them? or does your system require you download FP again, for the gazillionth time! Sheesh! I know it's so frustrating.

    So far just installing Flash 6 has solved this issue for several people. I never UNinstalled the players, but merely installed them.

    Now, did you try REBOOTING your computer? That may help too. Whenever new software is added to your computer, it's always a good idea to reboot.
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    Anonymous
    June 23, 2006
    I'm having the same problem ... extremely frustrating. I would greatly appreciate an answer.
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    Anonymous
    June 23, 2006
    I didn't realize this was a wide-spread issue. I actually (originally) posted in another Flash forum and about 3 people (I think - not viewing it right now) responded with the same problem but directed me here to the Flash PLAYER forum. Didn't realize there was one.

    In the other forum someone mentioned to specifically download Flash Player 6 because the new version (whatever that is) is what is causing these problems.

    I downloaded it, and I went to this Flash page with all these Flash sites on them: http://www.chooseindia.com/coolflashsites.html and so far I'm able to view the Flash without a problem.

    We'll see if this works for ALL the pages I was not able to view.

    And let's see.................... http://www.ahlrates.com/players/ that is where Flash player 6 is.

    So try that and see if it works for you!!
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    eevee123
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    June 23, 2006
    thank you so so much for that adrress at ahlrates! I was having the same frustrating problem but thanks to you it's fixed! thanks thanks thanks. :
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