I have Flash CS4, fully legal, paid-for version. I am trying to open some old FLAs that I made, probably with Flash 8, maybe with Flash 7. When I try to open them, I get the error message "Unexpected file format," and Flash CS4 crashes! It have checked for updates online, but no luck. Most people who mention this problem are trying to open a FLA made with a newer version, using an older version.
View 5 RepliesI have had Flash CS5 since it came out, I have updated the program regularly.When I open Flash it gives me the Unexpected File Format Error. Even though I am not opening any files.
View 1 RepliesI receive a error when loading a .fla file from a flash template downloaded from net.nexpected file format - yet adobe flash 5.5 recognizes the file and tries to load. I'm new to adobe flash.
View 1 RepliesI'm suddenly getting an "Unexpected file format" error on virtually every Flash CS4 file that I try to open. These are files that I created and I'm trying to open tham on the same computer on which they were created. The only thing that I can think of that has changed is that I installed some new fonts, so I deleted those, but that hasn't helped.I've tried retrieving files that I had backed up to a server, and those give me the same error. The only files that I AM able to open are 1) a test file that I created in CS4, saved, closed and reopened, and 2) files that had been created in CS3.
View 1 RepliesToday I was working on a project in Flash, I restarted my computer because when I was pasting sth. It was pasting "Hello!". After the restart, I opened Flash, It said that the "Essentials xml" couldn't be opened. So it said to go to Window>Essentials reset. I did and I was able to edit again. But before doing that, I tried to open that project, and it Said that it couldn't be found. I opened it manually but still the same. Then I closed Flash and opened it again. And when I opened the project I got : "Unexpected file format".
View 1 RepliesI have this problem opening a .fla file of mine.Error: "Unexpected file format". solving it as I don't want to lose all my work with that file
View 1 RepliesI was recently working on a project in Flash CS5.5 for school, last thing i did was save the project and close the program. Next time I try to open it I get an error saying "Unexpected File Format", and the application closes itself out. I can open Flash by itself and work on anything else, but when I try to open my class project it repeats the same thing "Unexpected File Format" and closes. The file was originally started IN Flash CS5.5, and has not moved to any other program since then.
View 11 RepliesI have been working on a flash movie all day.I shutdown my computer and rebooted it.Now when I go to open my .fla it says "unexpected file format". I stupidly wrote all actionscript on the timeline.
View 1 RepliesI have been working on a project for a week and suddenly it crashed during save (nothing strange had been imported or anything i just saved after moving content around) and now i cant open my file again. I contacted adobe support who claim that since the problem is related to the file this is not their problem, what a load of HORSE ****, who should i contact about this dell if its an FLA FILE!? I have already renamed the file to flash.zip then opened with WinRar and repaired as a new zip file to a different folder (which removes the corrupt content which is document something.xml) then i tried renaming this folder back to flash.fla however the file still does not open.
View 4 RepliesI recently had Flash CS4, I made an AS2 .swf, published to .fla. Now, I have Flash 8. I am attempting to open the CS4 .fla, and it says, "Unexpected file format!"
View 2 RepliesI am trying to customize a video player skin from f4player [URL] [the file is mySkin.fla]). I am using flash cs3 pro and I get the error "Unexpected file format" when trying to open the file, a friend has flash cs4 and has the same error. Is there something I could do to open this .fla file correctly? Or maybe if someone could try opening it and saving it again for cs3?
View 1 RepliesWe recently upgraded to Windows 7 64Bit from Windows XP here at work, and since the upgrade i've discovered a very scary issue with Flash.When going to save one of my large projects, often Adobe simply crashes outright, freezing up and displaying a standard error message."Adobe Flash CS5 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available." - with an option for "Close program"I hit close program, and Flash disappears. If I try and open that same FLA file again, I get the error messageUnfortunately it seems since Flash is crashing in the middle of saving, it is corrupting my FLA file. This is extremely worrying, since it corrupts my entire source file.Here's the details of my computer:OS: Windows 7 - Recently upgraded from 32bit Windows XPThe Flash CS5 version is 11.0.0.485The FLA in question is 10MB, and contains some large map files (gifs), lots of small JPG's as well as a fair chunk of code as well as importing of external classes. I've tried replicating the issue on smaller files, and haven't been able to do so.
View 27 RepliesLately, I've been getting an "Unexpected file format" error when tring to open a CS3 fla file that I've been working with for a couple of years. I've edited the file with the exact same app before.
View 3 Repliesi have recently been making a game in flash 8 and then a few weeks ago i got a demo for CS3, then my demo ran out and i thought that it wasnt really worth upgrading so i went back on flash 8 and tried to open the game but when i did it sed "Unexpected File Format". I checked and the game was .flv and it still wont open.
View 4 RepliesI'm working as a freelancer in a flash project. The project includes a list of as2 files which I need to edit and debug. I was going to do that using flash cs3 but every time I try to open an as2 file I get an "Unexpected file format" error message. The files are strictly text and (not binary), but it seems flash cs3 won't open files with a '.as2' extension (e.g.scriptfile1.as2). If I rename the file so it holds the .as extension (e.g. scriptfile1.as) then cs3 opens it fine. Unfortunately I cannot rename these files since I'm not the owner of the project, I merely make some modifications.
View 1 RepliesI was working with a FLA file when Flash suddently crashed. Then i tried opening the FLA again and i get "Unexpected File Format" error. Are my FLA file contents now forever lost? No way to recover it?
View 1 Replieswhen the embedFonts is removed, it works perfectly as expect. Otherwise when an image is clicked, it selects the whole text around it. Alternatively can anyone suggest a method to style dynamic textfields instead of using html?
View 1 RepliesI asked this earlier but maybe I didn't give enough information. I am working on a website where video quality is very important and the client is delivering me the video already compressed. I then want to import it to flash CS3 and export it as .flv for progressive download with the media playback component. I have done all of this successfully in a sense that it all works but the video quality is not good enough, it's good but the client says it;s a bit grainy. I used the highest setting in Flash, on2 vp6 at 700kbs.
My question is what is the best file format (.mov etc) and what settings should the client use, so I can create the highest quality .flv export from their .mov file? Second question, I used an 8 second buffer but now the client is saying they don't want it to buffer at all. What are the other options besides progressive download, I have never delved into this before?
When I put dreamweaver file in a zip file for viewing on another computer, images and format are not the same when viewing in dreaweaver.
View 1 RepliesI want to read in a HTML file and format with a CSS file.I'm using MX2004.From what I've read, this should be possible?I'm getting stuck at the first obstacle, I can't figure out how to read in the HTML file.THe use of the CSS styling seems to be straight forward.
View 1 RepliesWhat's the best way to save an swf file to an avi format?
View 2 RepliesI want to Export in charts & datagrid data into different file formats - "PDF, Word and Excel" in my web application..I am using Flex 3 and want to export the file in local system.
View 2 RepliesAny know of a good program to convert a SWF back to FLA?
View 6 Replieshow I can format a bulleted list that is called from an XML file
It is all populating from an XML file. The pop up bullets are brought in as HTML into a Flash htmltextfield. I was able to format the other text just not the pop up info.
XML FIle:
<Person>
<ID>34</ID>
<Name>Name</Name>
[Code]....
As we know the default format for video is H.264 and for audio it's AAC. We want to change the format. Please tell us ow can we change the format of the FLV file at the time of creation?
View 7 RepliesI tried to convert the PNG file into bytes wit the code below
var enc:Base64Encoder = new Base64Encoder();
enc.encodeBytes(bytes);
var base64data:String = enc.drain();
trace("base64data : "+base64data);
trace("end of base64data ");
But what i get is a chunk of characters like this
[Code]...
convert the cs5 file to cs4 and give me.
View 2 RepliesI have two arrays "array1" and "array2". I load the values in array1 by reading mages1.txt and load the values in array2 by reading images2.txt.The following is the code for reading the text from file "images1.txt" and loading into array1.Images1=a1.jpg|a2.jpg|a3.jpg|a4.jpg|a5.jpg|a6.jpg
m = new LoadVars();
m.load('images1.txt', this);
m.onLoad = function(ok) {
[code].....
But the challenge is how should i import this icons in flash that too in vector format. I am following a process which is not really giving me a proper output. Process
1. Export the AI file in swf format
2. Convert the swf to fla using decompiler
3. open the fla to view the icons
Now the challenge is when I follow this process i get a large number of masked layers in flash. For one icon it shows around 80 layers...
I wasn't sure if this post would go under Flash MX, or AS; but here i am. I am loading external .txt files into a scrollbar. I need to know how to format the text in the .txt file (I.E font size, color, bold, italic). Or, if there are simple tutorials or reference guides that i can look at.
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