Why won't Adobe flash load and why am I now left with blocked plug ins ?!!

[mitchmache]

Yesterday I received a demand via Safari to download latest version of Adobe flash player.

I did so and immediately found my system virtually unusable, with blocked plug ins at every turn. Neither has the flash player actually installed, despite constant attempts.  I have removed previous versions, etc, restarted the Mac etc, taken every bit of advice going.

24 hours later and having wasted nearly a whole day,  I am still left with a Mac with applications I cannot now access which were running to perfection before trying to download Adobe flash player.   Hugely frustrating and annoying.

[oyseka]

Hi,

What version of OS X are you on, does the installer run after downloding it ?

[mitchmache]

Thank you for replying Oyseka

Its a MAC 10.6.8.   When downloading, the Adobe goes through the 1-2-3-stages and it shows the run of the download.

I restart the MAC after, but the download doesn't appear on the system. There is a page where you can confirm if you have an Adobe flash player downloaded, a small grey box which remains empty if there is no flash player.  It always remains empty ! 

And the message remains on whichever application, that I need to download a flash player before I can access it.

[oyseka]

I had a different issue in that the install hung at 95% but I used a manual install and that fixed the problem. See if this works for you as it appears that the installer is buggy.

Use the "Manual Install" mode. Control-click on Install Adobe Flash Player.app

"In the Contents/Resources folder, you’ll find a file named Adobe Flash Player.pkg. Double click it"

That worked.

Just to mention, you do not need to restart the system after installation