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I got the similar type of problem. My file was crashed when I was working on it and now when I try to open it, it passes the same error message on my output panel. This is the only file I have, PLEASE HELP.

I also noticed that there is one new file with SWZ format created in the same folder, where I have the main file, with the name of textLayout_1.0.0.595.

Well in my case I had CS4 file opened and saved through CS5, so I  don't know which version it was saved to. But I found one interesting  software, SWF Decompiler, on another forum discussion:  http://forums.adobe.com/message/2812507#2812507. But you have to purchase the software to get your AS back.

Ben, you are right. This should be fixed... Hello, is there any Adobe Tech. looking at this discussion?

Hi Nivesh,

Sorry for late reply. Attched are the files that I have mentioned in the

forum. One is fla file, which was created in flash CS4 and modified and

saved from flash CS5 and ultimately crashed. And another one is, I believe,

created during the error process.

What are the chances that I can get my work back? And how long the

investigation process will take?

Thanks

Jinesh Vora

Help me please! Some days worked over the project, and today FlashCS5 cannot open my project, inform on an erro:

"Flash can not parse this document."

or

"An error occurred opening file 'F:\Rus\_site\??????? ??????\top_menu_anime_ver2.fla'
The following JavaScript error(s) occurred:

Cannot find file F:\Rus\_site\????????????? ???????\top_menu_anime_ver2.fla."

What to do? Here there is no answer, but somebody can has solved this problem?

1. When I worked over my project at first cancellation function has "Undo". I could not cancel action (Ctrl+Z did not work).
2. The history list has disappeared from the screen (became empty).
3. I have closed FlashCS5, having save my project.
4. I can not open the project because of an error: "Flash can not parse this document."

Help me please!

Hi,

We discovered that the file becomes corrupted due to the empty frame in the following asset:

1. Open the FLA in Flash CS4

2. Open the Library panel.

3. Browse to _movieclips & bitmaps/_gui/_menu wheel/Gui_Wheel_ButtonOverlay_On and open it for edit in symbol-mode.

4. Insert a keyframe in Layer 2 of that movieclip.

5. Save FLA

Thanks for sending us your FLA so we could narrow down the problem.

-Nivesh

Hi Jinesh,

The reply above was to BenLeffler's post and the FLA he emailed me.

We are still investigating your FLA.  Do you have a CS 4 copy of your FLA before it got corrupted?  If so, can you email me that one?

Thanks,

Nivesh

No, the problem is not solved. The file cannot be restored. Decisions are not present! Do backup copies before work and after it is more often. I am very upset!

I think that it is a problem in CS5, instead of in our works. I think, it is necessary to pass to older versions that it is productive to work, for example CS4 or CS3...

Several days ago I have also got the same issue. A whole one week work was completely

damaged. Had to start all over.

Definitely not good from Adobe to RTM a software with such a critical bug.

I did some testing yesterday. Saved some CS4 files in CS5 format. It

damaged on average 2 files from 10.

As it seems, at Saving stage, CS5 does not save all components of FLA correctly, cause the "saved file" is notably smaller than the original.

Hi,

I have the same issue, but i have no versionning system on this FLA, and have one (crached) version of this file ... So I'm screwed ...

Adobe has no solution to fix this problem ?

Hi,

I have the same problem!

I've been working on this project for 3 month now.

It's a multiplayer-realtime game.

Well, I wanted to continue this project with flash cs5, because of the new code features, the better interface...etc...

I didn't backup, because I thought: were would be a problem with adobe???(Damn I was stupid -.-)

Is there any solution?

I'm really destroyed .

All my work......it's just gone....

You're all very unlucky to get this problem. I don't know why you guys got the error when transitioning from Flash CS4 to CS5. My transition went perfectly fine, and the game I was developing went through perfectly clean.

Sorry about your problems

dikuno <><

P.S. By the way, that file that was mentioned "textLayout_1.0.0.595.swz", is created whenever you put in TLF text that is edited at runtime via ActionScript and use Runtime Shared Library (RSL) preloading. Did you leave all your text boxes be, or convert them all to TLF?

P.P.S.S. I was very lucky that I didn't lose my project when I transitioned, as my current game is actually due in around a week. Hoepfully none of your projects that you lost are due in a week.

P.P.P.S.S.S. Imagine if this happened to Alan Becker while he was working on Animator vs. Animation II (it took him five months).

P.P.P.P.S.S.S.S. I feel especially sorry for the guy who spent three months on his online multiplayer real-time game. Must be a real shame to lose all your work after all those late nights and sore backs...

P.P.P.P.P.S.S.S.S.S. If you don't know what Animator vs. Animation is, you should watch the animations. You can find them on YouTube - just look up "Animator vs. Animation" and "Animator vs. Animation 2".

P.P.P.P.P.P.S.S.S.S.S.S. Sorry about all the PostScripts.

My game? Oh, yes. It isn't really that complicated. It's just like an electronic board game. But still, I would have lost nearly a month's work, which would have been pretty bumming.

I don't see any attachment, though.

Keep an eye open around the Forums. I'll be starting a new thread soon where everyone is free to complain about Fireworks, Flash Pro, Flash Catalyst and Illustrator CS5 crasing. Maybe, if I can gather enough replies, it can be sort of like a petition, and we can get Adobe to release some patches!

(Oh, and good patches, not faulty ones that bring in as much problems as they do solve.)

The thread's up now. Get everyone you know who's having problems with CS5 to complain at the discussion.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/649242

Make sure they write their name (Forum names are fine, no need for real names) so I can put it together into a "petition" reply!

dikuno <><

I too have this problem  I saved my fla file and then tried to open it later.  It told me that Flash cannot parse this file.  What do I do?

After working on a file for four hours this happened to me and so I thought the file was corrupted some way and so I started over making changes to the file.  Four hours later just when I was almost finished re-doing the changes....it happened again.  I am so mad.  Now I have two useless files and I am afraid to go make the fixes again because it will probably happen again.  I am afraid to waste my time on ANY file now in CS5 because I will end up with a corrupted file.  That doesn't bode well with someone that just put all her money into this software. 

To make matters worse I have about 50 more files I need to make changes to and I am on a deadline.  So, I am sitting here.  Can't work because it will probably be a waste.

I went in and looked in the library for empty frames but I probably have over 100 items in my library.  It will take me days to search them all.  So far I haven't found any missing frames.

Could someone please contact me and help me before my head explodes.  I would be forever grateful!  (Pitiful smile with a begging face) 

angela at acuteconsulting.com

Looks like I'm also a bit late to the game, but here's another case that causes this error:

Create a new ActionScript 3.0 project, and drag a TextArea to the stage.

Set the text of the TextArea to the eight-character string
you get by removing the spaces from "& # x 0 3 B 1 ;",
that is, "\u0026\u0023\u0078\u0030\u0033\u0042\u0031\u003B".

Save the project as amp.fla.  Close and reopen amp.fla.
Notice that the contents of the text parameter have been encoded,
seems like UTF-8, but I haven't taken the time to check.

Now save the project as amp2.fla.  Close and reopen amp2.fla.
You should get the message "Flash can not parse this document."

I've run into this bug because I want to pass XML data, including
numeric character entity references, into a parameter of a custom
control.  Named entity references seem to survive the round trip,
but numeric character entity references do not.

I have the same problem and honestly i am pretty mad. I invested another 1000bucks to end up with a software what ruins my projects.

I had it with one file 2 weeks ago and completely rebuild it, because i thought it was my mistake.

Two days ago it happened again and i cannot fix it. I tried to remove some empty frames but the .xfl file just does not want to open.

I do not know what to do anymore! This is a really important project and i am stuck. I cannot redo this file!

Hopefully someone con help me here!!!!

sincerely !

I came across this error today when I tried to open a .fla file that I had been working on. It has taken me about an hour to fix it but I think that I am happy enough now. Here is my solution so that maybe it can help others:

• Make a copy of your .fla so that you can work on it and change the extension from .fla to .zip
• Open it with winRAR, extract the contents to a folder somewhere and you will see all the various things that make up your project in this folder.
• Now, open flash and make a completely new project (just a blank project) and go File> Save as.. and instead of saving this new project as a .fla save it as a Flash CS5 Uncompressed Document (*.xfl)

What you need to do next is tedious BUT it might just save your bacon. One by one copy the various elements (XML, Library, bin etc) from the corrupt version to the blank folder (overwriting the new blank versions folders/files). Each time you move another piece into the folder open the .XFL and make sure that it works each time...(tedious but each time you open it you'll see the original project coming back to life) Keep doing this until it doesn't open and hey presto you've now found the corrupt file.

What you do next is your guess. For me the corrupt file was an xml file and I'm sure your corrupt file will be an XML file too (it is a parsing error after all). I simply deleted this XML file because it wasn't anything major. It'll take me a minute to re-do this movieclip within flash. If you can do this too then that would be a small sacrifice to get the project up and running again. I'm sure Adobe will sort this out soon and I hope my solution helps someone else.

-Stevo

I was able to find out that there is actually an ETX character in that empty node that might be causing this issue, I did a write up on it complete with wbfreek26 as the source of the solution! http://www.sosuke.com/index.php/2010/08/11/flash-cannot-parse-this-doc ument-adobe-flash-cs5/

Hi, my name is Pablo from Argentina. So i also encountered this error when trying to save my project in CS4 and then back to CS5 by mistake. I hope I can clear the doubts to the ones suffering from the hands of dreadful developers and testers. This is what i did to bring my project back to life. I assume we are using a test.fla file

- Rename your file from test.fla to test.zip

- Unzip it

- Inside your unzipped folder you should have a similar structure to this:

<bin>

DOMDocument.xml

test.xfl

<LIBRARY>

<META-INF>

mimetype

MobileSettings.xml

PublishSettings.xml

- Create a new fresh folder, maybe called Test2 and copy te contents of the unzipped folder.

- Delete all the items from the Library Folder

- Copy the xml files from the Test>Library to Test2>Library from 10 to 10, opening the test.xfl y test2 folder, every 10 files till the error comes up. So then you'll know the file getting the error is in that last 10 files you copied.

- Then keep copying inside those 10 files, one by one, till Flash cannot open the file. So you will know which one is the file giving you the error.

At this stage you'll probably be thinking that a company like Adobe couldn't miss this error in a mega development like CS5, but they did, until the update, so this brief tutorial is for the ones like me that missed the patch, or have a project damaged by the software.

- When you narrowed the search and identified the file giving the error, open it.

-  I discovered that the xml structure for the library item (represented in this xml file) would be something like this

<timeline>

     <DOMTimeline>

               <layers>

                         <DOMLayer>

                                   <frames>

                                          <DOMFrame>

                                                   // Here should be the content of the frame

                                                       <Actionscript>

                                                                     ///Actionscript Code

                                                       </Actionscript>

                                                       <elements>

                                                                           /// the objects in the stage

                                                       </elements>

                                          </DOMFrame

                                   </frames>

                         </DOMLayer>

               </layers>

     </DOMTimeline>

</timeline>

- So, maybe this should be the approximate structure of the xml file, i don't know how exact is this, i didn't developed the application, the geniuses of Adobe did. I discovered that in my error xml file, this structure was truncated, yes truncated, there were things like this for example:

<DOMFrame>

          <Actionscript>

                   ///some actionscript content

           </Actionscript>

            <elements/> (WTF??!! No opening tag, and a truncated closing tag)                

</DOMFrame>

- So after burning my head trying to identify this not opening, not closing tags, and deleting or correcting each one of them, i managed to recover my agonizing file, it's back again! At this stage i was tearing my hair off and swearing to all of the talented developers working against the clock to bring us a version that could have waited 2 more months to be shipped in a full version, not beta.

There is also a couple of more errors other people encountered, i recommend keep searching for your exact error.

Hope this helps

Adiós amigos

Me encanta como lo ataste con alambre como si fuera un renault 12!!

Hi All,

This issue seems to have been fixed in the latest CS5 update 11.0.2.489

Thanks,

Chetan