Problems with Loading Content off of Network or Local Harddrive Location

Problem: When testing a Flash application on a harddrive or a network drive, and if that movie loads other external files in to it that are located on your local machine or a network location, sometimes the application will not respond to these loads.

Gotchyas: When testing one of these Flash applications on someone else's computer it may often work fine. Flash does not issue any error when failing to connect to the external file so, it is not obvious what the problem is. Updating Flash after encountering this problem will not fix it.

Solution: Add your hard disk drives and commonly used network drives to your "trusted file locations" area of your Flash Player's Global Security Settings (right click anywhere within Flash application while it is running and go to [Settings]).

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