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Surefire Way to Crash Flash CS3 - Everytime.
Select text in an actionscript help window and drag down to the bottom bounding box of the help window while selecting the text – voila! A crash every time.
Why is this a problem? Well it certainly makes using the code in the help examples a bit more difficult, right? Very precarious, indeed.
Any other guaranteed crash producing actions out there? Any “I crush your head”ers out there? (Bonus points for those of you that remember that bug.)
I should probably add that I am on a MacBook Pro with 3GB ram. Is this unique to Mac users? Unique to Mac Laptop users, etc.?
Posted on June 15, 2007
Gustavo Jun 15
I’m on a VAIO VGN-FE770G (1Gb RAM). I’ve tested that and nothing happen. may be a Flash CS3 mac version bug.
microfotze Jul 10
even when you try to move a frame in the timeline into a frame where a folder is it crashes too..
flash cs 3 sucks as hell.. adobe fucked it all up.. it crashed so much that i had to go back to flash 8 so i can finish the job.
xenon Aug 6
Mine crashes while just typing after a couple of hours. The GDI objects counts increases while typing until it goes pooof. Maybe coz i’m using WindowBlinds. Who knows.
Mike Aug 7
I’m using Flash CS3 on XP, and it crashes after drawing for 10 minutes or so every time
Jason Aug 14
Constant stability issues with Flash CS3 on the PC: start-up, shut-down, and randomly. The application windows do not use windows components and run very slow. This is a critical mistake in building a windows version of a program. It appears that CS3 is optimized for the Mac.
Elvin Sep 2
I’ve never seen a more unstable version of flash since CS3. What a pile of poo! I’ve already lost a day’s work because flash crashed and it was saving to my work fla apparently (I did not even press save). The reason it crashes so much is because I’m working with a very layer intensive project and when I pan too much; BOOM gone. Other than that it still has piles of bugs. Did they rush this projects or something?
valkerie Sep 4
I have just bought the iMac, installed the necessary design tools and Adobe softwares are the first headache for me: I began using my PS CS3 Extended by opening up a image. The program abruptly exits by itself the very moment i clicked on the Text tool.
Next is the Illustrator CS3. The program crashes whenever I try to launch it.
The Flash CS3. same problem as Illustrator.
Thank God Dreamweaver works fine.
I have did some search over the net and found a solution over at : http://joemaller.com/2007/08/10/fixing-cs3-all-apps-crash-when-saving/#comment-24045
Horray! Not. It doesnt work for me. Hmm, I dont know what’s wrong though.. Im beginning to suspect if it has got to do with the batches of the iMacs.
Will Oct 3
Flash CS3 crashes constantly. And it crashes for the most minor offense. Since i mostly work in AS this is where I experience all my crashing. I find that if I am typing quickly (yes - dare I) - like make a selection, copy, scroll quickly, paste, start typing then zzzap. If I slow down and keeps the crashes to a minimum. I keep running the updater hoping their will be a patch to this shiza, but still none and its been months now since the release.
Zach Oct 5
Hey, I’ve found a couple ways to crash Flash Player (or Flash CS3) from within ActionScript code. Here ya go:
http://blog.zacharcher.com/2007/10/05/how-to-crash-flash/
nicemandan Oct 15
I’ve noticed the ones here plus, it crashes constantly for me when opening files on my work network. I’m on XP SP2 and if the file on the network drive has been opened by a Mac, then Flash CS3 on Windows crashes when you try and open it - but only on a network drive.
To solve it, you need to copy and save locally, then return it back to the network drive.
Tom Callahan Oct 26
Tons of crashes for Flash CS3 here but I do have WindowBlinds (v6) installed which I’ve seen a couple of mentions of. Basically it just seems to slow down, then gets really “flickery” for lack of a better word (redraws slow, things blink, etc.) and then poof it’s gone. Sometimes I get the “Do you want to send data to Microsoft” alert, sometimes I get the “Not responding, end now?” alert, but usually it just vanishes without a trace. System is completley stable, and opening Flash again is fine, but about an hour or so later it crashes again. I just disabled WindowBlinds for Flash using the per-application settings, I will post back here later this weekend if it seems to help things.
Tom Callahan Oct 26
Seems to be confirmed, about 2 hours now without a crash after disabling WindowBlinds for Flash (was crashing about once an hour before).
I’m not sure if the problem is Flash or if Flash just manages to trigger a WB problem badly enough to crash — probably the latter.
The CS3 interface handles nearly everything you see in Flash anyway, very little (besides the titlebar, dialogs, and menus) is actually skinned by WB, so I don’t even really miss it.
Chris G Oct 29
This is absolutely awful, i hate CS3 more by the minute. I’m working on a complex layered file, and i was switching between flash CS3 and flash 8 (since CS3 is obviously awful, i use it at minimum). I decided to try and just reinstall CS3.
Worst idea ever. Somehow my file developed a few new awesome problems:
1. Every time i click “new keyframe” or drag any sort of keyframe anywhere, it takes exactly 40 seconds to process.
2. It crashes when i try to save the file as flash 8.
PLEASE HELP ME
Ahadov Jabir Oct 30
Mine keeps crashing too . 90% of the time when I try to save as fla. It’s just annoying, I’ve had to start it over for the third time. Any fixes to this problem? Now I’m afraid to start over as I believe it’ll crash anyway.. How the hell am I supposed to save my work? grrrrrrrrrrrr
john Nov 7
Big problems with CS3 flash. Fine when coding but crashes when handeling graphics. Just trying to finish off an xml project, got all the way through with no crashes until on the last little thing to do which is a simple shape tweened animation and it crashes every time I go near it. It just crashed again after dragging a graphic onto the desktop. I do contract work for a big organisation and they are having major problems with photoshop as well. XP on a hp tablet. All software legit.
Mark Nov 8
on BOTH my Mac OSX and my XP Pc Flash CS3 crashes when I do a List Variables, or a List Objects.
Not very productive for a purchased Production Premium CS3 bundle!
Angry guy Nov 16
I can confirm the above. I’m on leopard and when i click on list objects, the flash crashes.
The report feature came up, so reported it to adobe and apple… hopefully this will be fixed by someone.
Dean Nov 18
I’m on Win Vista - dual core proc with 2 gig RAM and an NVidia GeForce 6800 XT card. I’m working on a 2 MB ActionScript 2.0 file with about 23 layers in Flash CS3. It started crashing yesterday when I went to Test Movie, but it allowed me to publish yesterday. This morning after some minor file modifications it is now crashing whenever I go to publish - so I can’t generate a SWF.
James Nov 19
Leopard/Flash CS3/Mac Pro Intel..
More or less guaranteed crash when trying to access Behaviours palette. A few other glitches noticed too. Saving every other minute change to my files. Madness!
Eric Bort Nov 29
I find that when i generally have the program running for over an hour (which sucks cause i’m in FLash about 10 hours a day) it starts to sloooooow down.. more and more.. drawing tools take about 10 seconds to respond.. switching from inside a MC to main timeline is like 15 seconds.. i finally just reboot.. this with 3.5 gigs of ram, about 2.5 gigs free with only 8% cpu usage. amazing!
pa Dec 8
my flash cs3 crashes whenever i try to do a shape tween, in both windows xp and mac os 10.4.10 (hackintosh)… some hardware issue maybe?
Steve Jan 3
Wow this program is unstable. Mine crashes to desktop every 15 minutes! If a fix is not made soon, flash CS3 will be abandoned en masse in favor of earlier versions.
Ahadov Jabir Jan 13
I eventually gave up on CS3 and downgraded to Flash 8. I’ll keep an eye on this forum just in case if anyone comes up with good news. BTW I’m running Vista on AMD Turion Dualcore, 2Gb Ram, 160Gb HDD, as if it means anything. As stated above neither CPU nor RAM usage issue.
Tdude Feb 20
Flash crashes on publish…
Before publishing your open .fla file, go to “Publish Settings” and tell Flash where to publish the file by clicking the little file icon and choose directory. In case this doesn’t work, you have to copy your .fla to a new directory and repeat the procedure. It helped me and as long as I do that, all previously crashing files work.
Please post if this helped you. There seem to be many people with this problem and I haven’t found anything at Adobe that solves this.
Flash CS3 is crap! Mar 12
Absolute shite! If they are going to make a programme that crashes so f*****ing much - why don’t they build it so that your work is recovered before it crashes. Dumb stupid nobs. I hate this bloody programme and the pissing horse it rode in on!
hahahaha Mar 16
i agree with the last comment just lost damned 4 hours of work and finished reconstructing it all and saving on every 30 seconds… noobs that work on cs lol
Tom Mar 21
CS3 crashes every time I try to open Actions palette. Seems so unstable. Maybe Adobe and Mac are in cahoots to force new hardware and software buys?
I hated when Adobe bought Macromedia. Now this monolith could care less because they have us all by the you know whats. When the two companies were competing, we got a better, more stable product.
Caro Mar 27
It crashes on me every time I open the help (actionscript reference) or Actions palette. I do most of my actionscripting in an external editor, but sometimes it won’t stay up for long enough for me to type the one line of code required to include my external .as file. It’s driving me f*cking insane.
I’m on Win XP btw.
Adrian Parr Mar 28
I’ve just discovered a way to crash Flash CS3 in just two lines of ActionScript. It crashes both my PC and Mac.
See my blog post about it here …
http://www.adrianparr.com/?p=43
pixel slave Apr 11
I don’t do complex scripts in my Flash CS3 work, but I get crashes all the time, particularly on export. I have to agree with the person above who suggested that you move the FLA to a new folder. Seems to work every time. Must be a corrupt temp file somewhere — anyone track what the software is writing to the drive while working?
Zoe Apr 16
it crashes the best when I throw my lap top against the wall!!! what a piece of Horse@#$@$##hit!!!! I hated Adobe before and even more now…FLASH a great product no more!!
Mike Apr 28
I’m getting a crash on Export in Vista. It just started with this file I was working on all afternoon. What really sucks is that it works fine on the stage, but as soon as I try to export out it bombs on me..
I was hoping there might be a patch out but no luck. Yeah, they need to clean this app up….
James Apr 29
So…I’m not alone.
I’ve been working on a particular site for a while, everything is cool. And suddenly, in the last few days, the files no longer want to work. Crashes the second I try to open an .fla file for the project. I figured my files must be corrupt. But then a startling discovery (yay!). If I open a file from a different project FIRST, then I immediately try to open one of the files for the project I am trying to finish - voila! It opens (joy!).
Except - this is worthless to me, as the second I try saving or publishing….Hello Desktop! I love this. Sheer pleasure, I tell you.
No clue what to do except re-install. But rumour has it, this is a so-so, sketchy solution.
James Apr 29
UPDATE : Okay - so I saw a previous user say they created a new directory and copy their flash files there. I tried it, and it worked!! Makes perfect sense, of course (ha!).
Just to add - it was exactly a couple days ago when I opened Dreamweaver, and set up a new Site using the “Site Manager” tool for this directory with my flash files. I wonder if Dreamweaver screwed up the directory somehow, and the way flash interacted with it? NO clue. But a thought.
Nithin May 6
Sorta same problem with me in CS3!Im making a projector file for an animation project.Everything runs fine while building.There is an option menu linking to each separate scene. And there are around 8 scenes.And I’ve imported the music mp3 files for each scene.The size of each scene is approx 4602 frames with framerate set to 20fps. When i test each scene individually its all works fine. When I try testing the final movie file it crashes halfway thru! But when i reduce the number of scenes to around 4 or so it works fine but this isnt what i want!Wonder what cud be causing the crashes. Im not sure if its coz of the low memory.
My system config:
3.02Ghz intel P4
512MB ddr
160GB sata
Windows XP SP2
AS3 SUCKS May 12
I hate Flash CS3 and AS3. Coding that needs only 1 line in AS2 takes 6-7 lines to do in AS3. WTF.
Hope May 13
Just upgraded to CS3, and it was crashing non-stop. It calmed down a little, but yesterday I realized that I simply could NOT publish. Sigh. Someone had mentioned restricting the number of layers worked for him, and I tried that. By squishing a lot of layers into one, and also dividing one scene into two, I managed to get it to publish! Hurrah! Not the greatest solution, but if it works, it works. However, if this IS the solution, then what I would like to know is–how many layers is too many? I’m afraid to test it..
Hope
Brian May 13
USING A GRAPHICS TABLET AND FLASH
After many hours of crashing with F-CS3, I called tech support and the 1st thing he asked me was if I had a tablet installed. I said, “huh”?
He said to disconnect it and remove the drivers. Some tablets will crash Flash. SURE ENOUGH! FLASH WORKS JUST FINE NOW! I miss my tablet though…
Dave May 16
I was getting a weird crash whenever publishing a couple files. Turns out the .AS files I’d grabbed from my friend were doing it. I’m on a PC and Macs put a special line break character in the text files that messes up Flash CS3 on PC. It turns out you can open and edit the files in Flash no problem, and once you resave, it works fine. So Flash COULD read the files just fine, it just chooses not to when publishing. Grrr.
Another obnoxious bug is that Flash CS3 seems to like locking up files. Often I can’t save a file and have to rename it to save my progress. And sometimes, even after closing the file Flash hangs onto it so I can’t move or delete it in Windows.
Adobe - stop sucking! We have enough trouble finding our own bugs. When the platform itself is riddled with problems, that makes our lives very difficult and we start to hate you.
Josh May 19
About 2 or 3 times a day my entire system (Macbook Pro 3G Ram) locks up when I try to import an image. Does anyone have any solutions for this garbage?
gpg May 23
:/ Doing anything in Flash CS3 causes a crash… I’ve had 4 crashes today, and it’s only 10AM
Starry May 25
Flash CS3 sucks!
I have both Macintel and vista. On Mac is even worst. When you switch to desktop and back to Flash it takes like 10 seconds to reload ore it crashes.
I bought this mac for flash to work and it’s really annoying
Justin Jun 1
Flash CS3 Pro is having publish issues…
Wow…been using flash since flash 4, with little to no problems (was using MX Studio & MX ‘04 up until late last year on Win XP Pro).
Every time I would publish or publish preview a project, instant crash…
So, I opened the .fla, did a “Save As…” and within that window, created a new directory, and renamed the .fla, and saved it into that directory. Upon returning to Flash CS3 Pro, publish / preview modes work with no problem.
Interesting to note that all of this crashing began after I installed a handful of Flash CS3 Extensions using the Adobe Extension Manager CS3. (which was THIS MORNING…all publishing prior to extension installs worked fine)
Stefan Jun 8
I have been so disappointed with CS3, all mobile stuff I have to do I must do in Flash 8, since CS3 is just too unstable when code gets complicated. Flash CS3 will normally just close without an error, no warning, nothing. Very buggy release, I find working slower than before since I have to switch between CS3 and 8, and saving in different formats all the time. Can’t wait for the next major release, I hope they remember that new features don’t mean anything if the standard features are buggy.
Freezerbee Jul 1
Ooop! yep. Time to turn windowblinds off. Pretty, yes, but volatile when paired with CS3 it seems.