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January 20, 2011
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Flash player can't play a .swf file alone

  • January 20, 2011
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I've have a weird issue regarding flash.

I used Flash CS5 to create an interactive presentation. Everything works perfectly.

My problem is, for some unknown reason, everytime I try to open a stand alone .swf using flash player, the player always opens my interactive presentation instead  and tries to load the .swf INTO it. Using the finder's info window, when I do select a .swf, I get the information all my .swf have been changed to "interactive presentation files", and the default application assigned to open these files is my own presentation.

I can manually change these settings to select Flash player or Flash CS5 back as the default application for all .swf's, but as soon as I close the info window, the files immediately becomes "interactive presentation" files again, so Flash player insists in openning the fiels inside my presentation.

There's a permanent way to fix this?

I'm using a Mac Intel core duo 2.

EDIT: I temporarily solved the problem deleting all copies of my presentation's projector. The flash player atemmpted to use another presentation instead to open .swf files, so I deleted that one too. After that, now plays the .swf files as normal. The only problem is, if for any reason I do re-install any of my interactive presentations proyectors, Flash player  immediately tries to use them to play the .swf's... so the problem really remains unsolved.

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    Participating Frequently
    August 31, 2011

    The web flash player does not play stand alone .swf files on your computer.

    chombeauxAuthor
    Participant
    August 31, 2011

    I've posted this question on January... is September now and still no answer...

    pwillener
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    September 1, 2011