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Find and Replace doesn't work in CS3

Nov 24, 2007 5:58 PM

Hello,

Here's an unexplainable problem, at least for me... I'm trying to use Edit --> Find and Replace in Flash CS3 to replace a line of code that occurs in many frame scripts throughout the FLA, but when I click "Replace All", it says "No items found". I'm sure everything is set up correctly in the Find and Replace window: Search in: Current Document, for: Text, and I'm sure I'm typing everything correctly. I have "Frames/Layers/Parameters" and "Actionscript" checked below, and everything else unchecked. Has anyone else run into this problem?

Thanks!
621 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: kglad, Nov 19, 2010 1:17 PM
 
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  • macandrew
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    1. macandrew,
    Mar 5, 2008 8:06 AM   in reply to kalibahlu
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    I'm having the same problem -- I can even do a screen grab that will show an Actionscript statement that the Find function reports as "No items found". Doesn't show up in Movie Explorer either. Frustrating!
     
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  • kalibahlutwo
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    2. kalibahlutwo,
    Mar 5, 2008 8:27 AM   in reply to macandrew
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    Don't drive yourself crazy, I called tech support when I had that problem, and they reproduced the error on their end and kindly thanked me for reporting the bug. I guess they're working on it. Thank you for chiming in... misery loves company! ;-)
     
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  • november1899
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    3. november1899,
    Nov 19, 2010 11:01 AM   in reply to kalibahlutwo
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    I'm having the same issue in CS5. Seems like they should have fixed this by now?

     
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  • kglad
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    4. kglad,
    Nov 19, 2010 12:35 PM   in reply to november1899
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    i don't see a problem.

     
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    5. november1899,
    Nov 19, 2010 1:05 PM   in reply to kglad
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    Right. Obviously it works for some people (my co-workers, for example) but it's incredibly annoying for it not to be working on my computer (Win 7 x64, etc.) Has anyone else experienced this issue?

     
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  • kglad
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    6. kglad,
    Nov 19, 2010 1:17 PM   in reply to november1899
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    does it always fail even with the simplest of fla's with almost no content or are there particular situations in which you see it fail?

     
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    7. november1899,
    Nov 19, 2010 1:26 PM   in reply to kglad
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    It seems to almost always fail. I created a new project with some actionscript on the first frame, and nothing else:

    stop();

     

    For the most part, searching for "stop" didn't work, but occasionally - maybe 1 in 20 searches, maybe less - I could get it to find that string of text, when searching for "stop" or "stop();" (without quotes) after toggling the regex checkbox a couple of times. I thought when it worked those couple of times that I had been searching incorrectly, somehow, but using those same settings now no longer finds the text. It is truly bizarre.

     
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