Hello.
We 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 message
"Unexpected File Format"
Unfortunately 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.
I'm lucky I keep regular backups, otherwise I could have lost months of work instead of just todays. In the meantime I have been copying and pasting a new version of the file each time I open Flash, but it's a crapshoot whether next time I save if it will kill it or not.
Here's the details of my computer:
OS: Windows 7 - Recently upgraded from 32bit Windows XP
64 Bit Intel Xeon X5560 @ 2.80 Ghz
4GB Ram
The Flash CS5 version is 11.0.0.485
The 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.
I was wondering if it was a case of not enough memory, but Flash appears to use around 450 mbs. About 40% of my total memory is free, according to the Task Manager performance.
Any ideas what could fix this issue?