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Flash Player won't save local settings

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
January 29, 2010
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We are waiting Adobe. Fix this problem. With Flash not working on both Macs and Windows systems it seems that Flash will soon be irrelevant.

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kevinsa5

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This is my first and only post on adobe forums, this is the solution to the problem. I had the exact same problem, and eventually found that if you uninstall flash player, go into your home folder delete the Flash Player folder that is inside both Library/Caches/Adobe and Library/Preferences/Macromedia, and then install flash player again, it works.

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fmlogueAuthor

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Thank you Thank you Thank you. That seems to have fixed it. I now can listen to Pandora. Such a simple fix, I wonder that the Adobe Flash experts don't broadcast this fix to all who are having problems.

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Ryan Kimble

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TWEAK DISCOVERED for Flash Player 10 to save local settings!!

I was digging around in:

~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/www.macromedia.com/bin/fpupdatepl/

and I discovered:

Adobe Flash Player.pkg

If you Right Click (or Control + Click) the Package and then select 'Show Package Contents' this will open a new window.

Then navigate to:

Contents/Resources/

There you will find a file:

Adobe Flash Player.info

Open this file with text edit (or your app of choice)

On about the fourth line from the bottom look for:

OverwritePermissions NO

Change this to:

OverwritePermissions YES

A NOTE OF CAUTION

I have not fully tested this change, but did find that after I modified the local settings for the Flash Player, then restarted Safari that the settings remained the same.

Good Luck!

~ry

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fmlogueAuthor

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Thanks for the email, but all I have in <~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/ is a file named "version.txt". I did a full search and I couldn't find "Adobe Flash Player.pkg. Is it possible that on my Mac running 10.6.4 I should be looking for a file with a different name and in a different place?

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Jochem van Dieten

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fmlogue: you have an issue with Adobe, not with the other forum users. That you come here to express your displeasure with Adobe is fine. That you are posting many identical posts in threads from other people that in no way help those people with their problem is not.So what I did was branch of one of your messages to a new thread (this thread), and removed the other ones.

Next time, please be concise, post in one place and wait at least 24 hours before you bump it. That way you are not replying to other people without helping them, and nobody will think you are spamming.

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Anonymous

fmlogue, I see you just registered this afternoon. Was it hard to search for old threads to rant on?

I don't understand people like you that register for this unhelpful nonsense.

There are people here that are searching for answers.

Spam isn't helpful to anyone.

Regards,

eidnolb

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fmlogueAuthor

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I didn't register yesterday. I have been registered to the Adobe Forums since early 2000. If you want to check, you will see my comments and questions on the Elements Forum going back that far. In those 10 years, for reasons known only to Adobe, I have had to re-register at least 2 times. That the adobe forum software reports me as registering on the 29th is par for the course. My comments are in no way to be construed as spam. but obviously your reading comprehension is rather poor. I was merely registering my displeasure with a problem with flash 10 that seems to be widespread, but with no solution to be found. If there were a solution I would be a happy camper. As I said in my comments, according to Pandora it is a bug in Adobe's code and that Adobe is aware of the problem, but for reasons known only to them, has so far fixed it, or, at the very least, let the poor user know so we don't waste all our time reinstalling restarting, reinstalling restarting, over and over again. I have a paid subscription to Pandora and would like to be able to use it, but I cannot do to bugs in the Flash 10 program. Yes I am angry. It seems that Adobe forces me to use their proprietary program, but feels no need to make it work. It is the kind of thing that made me stop using Photoshop Elements and Adobe Reader, but that is a whole other can of worms. If you have a solution, or know where I could find a solution, that would be more helpful than attacking me. Attacking the messinger doesn't make the problem disappear.

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Anonymous

Ok, fmlogue, I had no way of knowing about your previous registration and if I had, I probably would not have said what I did. Frustration and anger are very normal emotions. Everyone has them at one time or the other. Sometimes we have to sit on the other side of the window to understand where the other person is coming from and I believe we have all been on both sides.

Now to your Flash Player problem. I do not know what Pandora is, but for me it makes no difference. Your issue is Flash Player and I will try to help you with that. The only comment I will make is that the Adobe Flash Player has no "bug" in it that would prevent the Uninstalling of the old version or the Installing of the latest version and it makes no difference to me who says otherwise. Something is either true 100% of the time or it is not true. I have the latest Adobe Flash Player on my system as well as many millions do and it works perfectly.

If you would like to proceed, please post back your OS, what browser or browsers you have installed and each version.

Also it would be helpful if you would list the contents of your Macromed\Flash folder.

Your Anti-Virus/Spyware and Firewall either included with the A/V or separate(other than Windows Firewall) info is needed as well.

Just to be sure that you are running as Administrator, right click on the clock time in your system tray, click on Adjust/Date/Time and tell me what you see.

Thanks,

eidnolb

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