How can I download Flash Player's setting manager ?

[Guest]

This:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html

[pwillener]

Why would you want to download it?  The settings manager is an online tool.

[Guest]

For convenience, sometime I need to go offline,

[pwillener]

Maybe your browser has saved it for use in offline mode?

[Guest]

Errr, just tell me it can be download or not...or any 3rd part soft to set...

[RobertKza]

Did you get a solution, we need to do the same thing and our users do not have access to the internet, ideally clear a specific site's Flash Cache transparently at the users request (i.e. if the user experiences graphic problems it can use the one click solution to restore)

[tgckpenguin]

Flashplayer was updated now you can set it through Control Panel.

[RobertKza]

Thanks for this. My challenge is that my users are not smart enough to use the control panel 😞

The issue I have is that between roll outs of versions on the Flash developed Immersive Simulation we are using (supplied by others) there is a loss of physical location registration of the characters and the background (i.e. the people are not sitting where they should or they disappear for a while during the interactive video). This can only be resolved by clearing the cache for the specific url. I would like the supplier to fix the problem but they cannot, either because they don't have the capability or they do not have the will to make it happen, so I'm looking for plan B. I thought to launch a single .exe which could clear the affected cache Any thoughts on this as a solution ?

[pwillener]

I don't know of any method of clearing the Flash Player cache, or part of the Flash Player cache, automatically.

What you could do is just delete everything that Flash Player has stored, including all settings, by deleting

• %appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player
• %appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player

[RobertKza]

mmm ... Thanks

What sort of trouble will it cause to the user's other Flash Apps if you delete everything like this ?

I was wondering if the Cached files all had headers which included the specified url, you could then search for them and delete ?

Would you be able to specify a parameter with the %appdata% like the specific url ?

[pwillener]

This is just a pure Windows function; delete these folders and everything in it.

I do not know what is actually stored on the Macromedia and on the Adobe folders; you may need to experiment with that.  It is possible that you only need to delete one of these folders.

[RobertKza]

I didn't realise that the more I think I know the less I actually do !! Speaking to a friend last night he inspired me to understand the difference between Absolute and Relative addressing i.e. %appdata% which I see elsewhere on the web is known as Symbolic addressing.

I was amazed that Windows Explorer understood %appdata%

I'll take your advice and experiment. I'm now convinced that the domain related files stored in the Flash Cache must have the domain embedded in each file or specific folder for that domain. It's the only way the settings manager would know that it could delete the data for that given domain.

My first journey into the folders last night did not inspire, a very large number of files and folders with very strange naming.

A very long time ago (Commodore 64 ...) I used to have a tool that could read the contents of files looking for text strings (it worked at byte level) perhaps I could find something like that and identify which files belonged to the specific domain ?