Helmut Granda wrote:
> The question now is, how do files in the library can become so corrupted?
> This would help to avoid it I hope.
Because Flash, like a lot of software, ain't perfect.
There's no reliable way to make an image get corrupted. Sometimes, the
corruption is simple, like it says "Image Cannot Be Displayed" in the library
preview, and it won't show up on stage. Sometimes, it gets much worse.
The solution is (often) fairly simple. You have to save the image out again
with a different name, because if you try to copy the same image and rename it,
Flash will still get corrupted.
Sometimes, it won't like it right away. Sometimes, it won't like it until you
Save and Compact. Sometimes, it will work fine until you do a random amount of
work in the file at which point it will stop working. Sometimes, it will still
show up in the library preview and the stage but it will cause the Flash file to
have problems when compiling or opening on other computers.
In other words, Flash ain't perfect (CS3 is the best example of that, while
Flash 8 is the closest it's ever been - in one version they went from best to
worst).
There's no solution and don't expect a fix because this issue has been around
since at least Flash 5 and they've never fixed it. I don't even think they know
what it is or why it happens, and it happens so infrequently, they simply don't
talk about it. The effort to figure it out might not make sense economically.
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