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1. Ned Murphy,

Jul 3, 2011 4:39 AM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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Your best bet might be to contact customer/technical support, or if you found a posting discussing your problem, send a private message to whomever was inquiring. These are user to user forums, and the occasional visits by Adobe employees tend to occur only for postings where software bugs of new releases pop up.

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2. kglad,

Jul 3, 2011 6:28 AM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405652.html

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3. sfxworksTrue,

Jul 3, 2011 10:47 AM in reply to kglad

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kglad, if you read, you would see that I already tried that.

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4. sfxworksTrue,

Jul 3, 2011 3:21 PM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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Am I really going to have to spend 39$ to get help....

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5. kglad,

Jul 3, 2011 4:25 PM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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sorry i tried to help.

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6. sfxworksTrue,

Jul 3, 2011 4:30 PM in reply to kglad

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Well..Its honestly looking like im going to have to

solve it myself.

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7. kglad,

Jul 3, 2011 5:04 PM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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i know you're frustrated but people, like ned and i, are just trying to help. we're volunteers. we're not being paid: we're not adobe employees.

anyway, i've seen that error myself but restarting my computer remedied the problem. i'm pretty sure that's not going to help you and i thought the most likely remedy explained in the adobe knowledge base would be more likely to help you. i now know you'd already tried that and it did not help.

i think your best bet is to google that error message and explore all the solutions mentioned. i'm also pretty sure you've already done some of that but if you've not followed all the links listed, i would encourage you to persist.

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8. NeilUVFX,

Jul 29, 2011 2:13 AM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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Hi!

So has anyone found a solution to this rather irritating problem?

I get this occurring with Flash CS5.5 multiple times every day! Restarting Flash works sometimes, but not always, same applies to restarting my PC...

Reinstalling Flash, as prompted by the error message has no effect, neither does reinstalling the JRE...

I'm running out of hair to pull out.

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9. sophiasilveringsea,

Aug 25, 2011 4:10 AM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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I guess it was caused by the class_path probably, since last time in my pc class_path was :

.;%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\rt.jar;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar;%JAVA_HOME%\lib \jconsole.jar;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\dt.jar;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\htmlconverter.jar ;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\jvm.lib;

, and then I delete all files in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\CS5\jre\ copy another jre's files into the folder

and then change class_path into .;%JAVA_HOME%\jre\lib\rt.jar;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar;

and things goes right

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10. gludion,

Sep 2, 2011 5:16 AM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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I don't know if it's going to help but:

Last time I had random crashes within flash IDE it was caused by my anti-virus which identified some flash DLL as being threatening.

(It was because a flash security leak had been found in flash player, and my AV took rather drastic measures about this issue)

In your case perhaps your Anti-virus has problems with JRE, or some component used by Flash.

The solutions may be to try deactivating your AV for some time to check if the problem remains.

Hope it helps.

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11. mleonv,

Jan 22, 2012 6:00 AM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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Hello,

I had the same problem and after trying everything one day I did a "boot-time scan" with my antivirus -avast- and it found some threat with some java files or something, I just leave the program do its job and delete everything what it was wrong. After the restart I opened Flash and it worked fine. No more "error initializing java runtime environment you may need to reinstall flash cs5"

I hope this help.

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12. troyblank,

Mar 16, 2012 8:46 AM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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This might not help, but I finally fixed this issue, none above worked for me.

I see all jvm.ini files (one in user folder one in adobe folder) so -Xmx1014m read -Xmx128m, then i delete the enviorment variables

JAVA_PLUGIN_WEBCONTROL_ENABLE

JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS

added vars

QTJAVA : C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\lib\ext\QTJava.zip

resintalled flash (although i don't think this helped) and java runtime, and it worked after that. This was a VERY VERY frustrating issue, not a big fan of java runtime after this.

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13. 4xyfenix,

Apr 3, 2012 4:36 PM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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I tried to uninstall java and flash as told here http://forums.adobe.com/message/2975044#2975044

but nothing helped.

Eventually I find out it was engough to specify -Xmx256m instead of -Xmx512m, and everything started working.

Too large values > 256 cause the error appear. Too low -Xmx128m makes flash to yield while publish.

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14. kareem bahrawy,

Jun 16, 2012 4:12 AM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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This link might help: http://program-wait4it-ming.blogspot.com/

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15. Viren AS 3.0 Developer,

Dec 23, 2012 9:23 AM in reply to sfxworksTrue

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I found a solution, which works for me.

Just delete the jvm.ini file under the temporary folder location. In windows it would be below path.

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Adobe\FLASH_VERSION\en_US\Configuratio n\ActionScript 3.0

Eg. C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Adobe\Flash CS6\en_US\Configuration\ActionScript 3.0

As soon as you start the Flash, a defult jvm.ini will be created automatically, in that location and your flash works fine.

Acutally the error comes due to the corroupt jvm.ini file (Too large values > 256 cause the error appear. Eg. Xmx1024m ) which gets created in temporary configuration forlders automatically during the Flash Installation.

Everytime Flash starts its looks for the jvm.ini file and allow the maximum initalized memory to the JVM.

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16. michaelbarsotti,

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Error initializing Java Runtime Environment. You may need to reinstall Flash.

Jul 3, 2011 12:24 AM

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