Surefire Way to Crash Flash CS3 – Everytime. | Visualrinse

Surefire Way to Crash Flash CS3 – Everytime.
Filed under Flash by Chad | 77 comments

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

77 comments

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.
Mario Aug 3

Flash cs3 on mac sucks big time, it always sucked, cs3 was a major improvements in terms of speed and generally feels snappier (on intel) but with regards to stability i must stay its the worse ever release, it crashed on me on several occasions, while using the library, moving bezier points and even something as simple as dragging the timeline slider!!
Marlaau Aug 3

I find that Flash CS3 will more ofthen than not crash if I am working with a Shape Tween then move to the frame number line “WITH THE WHITE ARROW CURSOR” and try to move to another frame. If I am using the “BLACK ARROW CURSOR” there is no crash.

Just thought you otta to know
Shauna Aug 9

Have enjoyed working in Flash since version 5. Now that I have CS3 I HATE IT!!! I don’t want to learn ActionScript 3 – I like ActionScript 2, so I save my files as ver. 8, but then all of a sudden one file started crashing EVERY FEW SECONDS, and it won’t create the SWF! I looked for an fix online, I’ve tried renaming the file, tried moving it to a new directory, tried repairing Flash CS3. I did a disk defrag, cleared temp files – all with no luck. I’m just about to dump the sucky program and go back to ver 8, but can I run the rest of CS3 and just Flash 8??? (I’m on a brand new Windows laptop running XP.)
Gareth Aug 14

The only thing I use CS3 for now is to save an FLA in Flash 8 format so I can open it in Flash 8 and carry on with my work.

Random crashes, severe memory leaks and the preview window appearing UNDERNEATH parts of the Flash IDE, CS3 is just an abortion of an application that shouldn’t have even been classed as Alpha software, let alone be released.

Shame on Adobe.
Steve Sep 4

Quicktime… the great satan. Uninstalled everything Quicktime and whaddaya know, 2004MX and CS3 all work perfectly. Import, Publish, export… zero issues.
Lola Sep 8

Have a friend with the same issue, especially with importing to stage or to the library and I asked them to take Steve’s Sep 4 advice above and wouldn’t you know it, it actually works for winxp sp2 environment Issue free and Quicktime free, which is a bummer for those who use QT or Itunes.

Something’s funky between adobe and quicktime interactivity, hope adobe gets on that, at 2900 beans a pop, its a helluva showstopping issue.
Rizwan Sep 17

Mine is crashing a lot too. I have a Quad Core Q600 with 4 gigs of ram, and im running Windows Vista 64 bit and everytime i do a shape tween it is crashing. it also crashes on shape tweens when running on my laptop with win xp and only 512 ram.

That really sucks. i hope they fix this update.
Leo Sep 26

I can’t use the gradient modifier without it screwing around…the cursor flickers like mad, same when I try double-click selecting an outline -I’m graphics based and Flash gets tired quickly, then I follow shortly after…. I hope they issue an update to fix all this soon.
Nuthead Sep 30

I had no major issues with CS3, that is until I tried importing AS into frames. Worked fine about 10-12 times, but then, crash!
Now, my installation of CS3 has been reduced to a pile of useless shite as I am no longer able to compile flashes or use the Actions window due to constant crashes. Repair reinstall did bupkiss.
AMD Athlon 2400+, 256MB RAM, Windows XP SP3.
michael chalk Oct 13

Thanks for all the possible solutions people ;-]

Will try uninstalling Quicktime first, then the tablet drivers.

(Running flash mx04 on winxp,sp3) These crashes are driving me mental! Sounds like the CS3 version is even worse.

kind regards, michael
Natalia Oct 17

I’ve been working in flash all week… havnt updated anything… i close down compute to go for a coffee.. come home start up compute NONE OF MY PGRAMMES that worked fine just 30 min ago will open? i did not install anything scince then? what on earth can it be? i reinstalled twice.. still wont open :S:S:S help!
Jamie Nov 11

For some stupid reason I’ve discovered flash CS3 does stupid reasons when dealing with custom templates. If I open up one, its fine, the minute I open up a second I can’t deal with the library (importing, adding or even dragging to the stage) on anything I have open. The only way to stop it is to restart the app and hope it doesn’t happen again!
Teach 10 Nov 17

As a middle school teacher, I was ready to install CS3 in my lab, but thank God I did not! In August I started a simple buttons project in CS3 to prep for a class lesson.. Unbelievable! so many complicated steps for just a simple thing as a button controlling motion!

We use studio 8 in the lab now. Maybe CS4 will be better!!
Jason Nov 18

I work at a multimedia company and have flash open on a daily basis. It amazes me at how many times Flash crashes each day. I counted 9 times one day. BTW, I am on a brand new MacPro, Quad-Core Intel, Mega Ram super computer. Crashing flash doesn’t surprise me anymore – just f*cking annoying. I want to meet someone from Adobe so I can hurt them.
bj Nov 30

Hm..yeah guys I have same problem when trying to import my pc crashes…. pc: 3Ghz pentium, 256Mb RAM, GeForce card 128Mb.
And you know what? Minimum requirements of FLASH CS3 is 1Gb of system RAM.
I see some of you said that you have much of RAM but still get those annoying crashes? Dunno, but my home laptom has no crashes on same template files, cause my home PC has 1Gb of RAM, and also dual processor, but I think the problem is in RAM (Flash CS3 tries to make temporary file and system requiremens is 1Gb of RAM, but not 256Mb) and that is sure it must crash.
I will put more RAM in my PC and I think I will have what adobe asks for FLASH CS3 system requirements:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/systemreqs/

If anyone of you having crashes with 1Gb of system RAM, I am sure the problem can be in publish settings for exporting. And those who cannot import I guess you have not 1Gb of RAM, cause as I said same templates can get importing to library on my laptop with good system requirements, and my PC cannot. I spent some hours finding it and I think this is true. Also some of you found that FLASH CS3 doesn’t go well with Windows Blinds. I don’t have it on my laptop so as I said the problem for my PC I guess is RAM, I will get more RAM and I hope Flash CS3 (same copy) will work on my PC as good as on my laptop.
And my final word. For those with good machines who have crashes, look for your drivers, cause Flash CS3 doesn’t like extras for PCs (from printers to tablets, uninstall everything and unplug). I hope that helped…
bj2 Nov 30

m…… I just fixed it for sure!
First, I thought it was RAM problem, cause my laptop can handle same files and import anything to library and my PC cannot (laptop has 1Gb of system RAM, PC has only of system 256RAM). But you know… I am making some websites and it was very strange that my FireFox and other browsers crashed on simply trying to download direct any_file.mp3 from my server… Same problem… Same no information on all google… It was strange… And I figured out !!! The problem is f*cking QuickTime! At the moment even my 256Mb RAM PC can import files into Flash CS3 library (with only 256RAM it is laging but it does it, that is so great!!!).
Ok step by step what to do cause QuickTime won’t let you uninstall easily (it also has some evil QuickTime files in your Flash CS3 folder.
1. Delete all QuickTime folder from program files.
2. Delete Apple folder from program files if there is any.
3. Search C:/ for QuickTime and you will find many files including those in your Flash CS3 folder. Delete them all immediately.
4. Start – Run – regedit … Go there to Local Machine and delete Apple folder with all iTunes Quicktime and other Evil.
That’s it. You just found latest fix thanks to my lucky associative this problem with that one of FireFox crash. By the way if your FireFox crashes on downloading .mp3 files from direct url links (this just answers that this was the problem for all!) you also can test with Firefox it this way, just try to go to my mp3 file directly from here: http://www.dreamstudija.lt/china.mp3 if you got crash I swear you are lucky! Also if you want after fixing your Flash to fix FireFox, after all deletes of QuickTime, your FireFox won’t crash but will give you “error with QuickTime” — what an improvement as compared with crash of FireFox yeah? Same error with flash that is why I got it. So just go to FireFox settings – program – and associate all QuickTime associates of all sounds / media / video to “Ask for download” or “Download directly without asking”. That’s it . Flash CS3 and FireFox 3 is working now just fine. And everybody on google said it was the problem of Windows and Adobe. Well… Anyway thanks Apple for your QuickTime which is Evil!
Spread this to everybody. Hope Adobe will find that I was right.
Hope I could help. (I didn’t find anything on google too and solved it with double luck — FF3 was such a big issue for me as was Flash CS3). Hope to get some RAM soon too for my PC…
Rangfar Dec 5

Here’s a totally bizarre one that you’ll only find by accident: Try opening the scene manager (Shift + F12), create an extra scene, and rename it to be the same as any existing scene. Press (Enter) or click anywhere.

You’ll then get a popup box saying “That name is already being used. Please enter a unique name.” Click OK, then click on any other scene, ignoring the highlighted name text of the currently-selected scene. Pow, CS3 crashes.

This happens with every CS3 on every Windows computer I’ve ever tried it on, including on the XP 64-bit platform. Wow!
JC Dec 9

I have constant issues – mega Mac Pro system and Flash dies constantly. I find if I am in Flash and I go to MODIFY DOCUMENT and then when on this dialog I then go to Photoshop or something else and come back… DEAD. CS3 also generally unstable – photoshop dies on mac pro laptop constantly if I am running Apache Tomcat, MySQL and Illustrator at same time (goodness knows why as hardly huge memory consumption) … boing… dead…
Adobe needs to get their act together.
Tim Dec 22

I am constantly having flash crashing while creating a shape tween inside a movieclip. Happens everytime I enable the shape tween. Flash freezes. It’s a simple tween, too.
Bilbo Jan 14

im using flash cs3 and working on videos and pictures puting character animation on them. all the pictures from my digicam causes flash to crash when the fla is reloaded and the scene with the pictures is active. i don’t know what’s up with this. and here’s the lowdown, my fla won’t work now. it just loads up to a point where i can see the last frame i was working on then bam it goes exiting like a motherfucker. help please!
Jak_Jou Feb 16

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck , 2 hours of work,is in the ….!!!fucking CS3!!!
Natalia Feb 23

I was working on CS3 for the longest time!
I’m working on a multimedia project for high school that is due in two days.
So, i’ve been making sure that everything gets saved but right as I’m putting the little end details (changing colors and aligning) I try to go back to the menu and a message says “CS3 has stopped working” and it closes me out.
And after that, when I even get close to my menu it closes down, and now it won’t let me publish the rest.
Do I have to start over?
I’m scared, because if I try using the program at school, they have the 7th version and CS3 files won’t work on it.

D:
Umbrascitor Mar 27

1. “Constrain” feature for scaling often doesn’t work at all, or totally DISTORTS the proportions instead of keeping them constant.

2. When moving the timeline slider or doing any other click-and-drag function, the modules all disappear and it stops showing you what you’re doing. You’re flying blind until you release the mouse button and see if you guessed correctly.

3. Shape tweens occasionally crash Flash, but I’ve also had this happen to me fairly often when using Sothink SWF Quicker. Shape tweens seem to just be inherently confusing.

4. Once had a problem with my buttons disappearing on preview/export. Trace statements said that such-and-such button was visible, but it wasn’t. I can’t count how many times Actionscript -says- it’s doing something when it obviously is -not-.

5. Current problem: God forbid that I ever try MOVING A GRAPHIC AROUND ON THE STAGE. Yeah, that’s what got me running “flash crashes” on Google, finding this site and writing this post. Because I’ve crashed four times in a half hour, all because I want to put a graphic somewhere else on the stage. Only thing that makes the graphic special is that it has three bitmap fills. Apparently that’s enough to make Flash choke on it.

Then, of course, there are the totally random crashes.

Pathetic!
Umbrascitor Mar 27

Appendix to #5 in my above post:

I don’t even have to move the graphic in question. It only needs to be -present- when I’m moving something else, or shifting to another keyframe.
kenneth coble Apr 14

XP SP3 And just finding that when working for a prolonged ammount of time and previewing files that I am working on such as flash templates adding touches to them etc. It crashes while trying to preview wether i do it in a browser or as a flash file doesn’t matter just doesn’t like you coding drawing or so much as importing a picture and then trying to preview too many times say an hour or it will crash so I have to friggin save every time I blink so that it wont crash when i try to preview it because it may look great but since it crashes you lose it anyway. Grr I hate this new flash I hate it all to hell and its so expensive its retarded.
Bill-L Jul 25

Just followed a suggestion here that worked!!! Thanks Tdude.
I was crashing when trying to publish. Copied things to a new folder & things worked fine.

Tdude your suggestion saved my deadline!! Many thanks to you the the sponser of this site.
snail Sep 29

I’ve the same problem here and now.. i was working on my flash game with pre-rendered 3D graphics style and it almost finish when suddenly on my office i’ve tried to export the movie and this f**k thing said ‘Error creating Flash Movie. there was not enough memory available’. Until i read a suggestion to change publish destination, and i did it once! guess what ? it’s work! but it only works once and only! after i’m back working on my project and try to export it again this damn thing said a same thing, ‘Error creating flash movie. bla bla bla..’ it’s really frustating for me because i have a deadline in 2 weeks from now.. can anybody here help me please..
Meekrab Oct 3

I am constantly having flash crashing while creating a shape tween inside a movieclip. Happens everytime I enable the shape tween. Flash freezes. It��s a simple tween, too.
bob Dec 28

try to build a project from a networked drive.
Silvia Jan 28

Thank You Tdude for the tip from the Feb20 post on crashing when publishing. I was having the same issue when trying to publish my movie – crashed about a million times. After copying the .fla file to another directory and changing the directory to save the .swf to [under Publish Settings – Formats – click the file icon next to .swf and change the directoy it is saved to)…miraculously it saved! NO idea why it kept crashing before, but very relieved it finally published and I can finish my project!!!
Mike Mar 10

Microsoft is awesome. They are great at everthing they make.