when you save in CS3 it refreshes the screen and takes you to your main stage?

[spaghbol]

Hi all,

I have been using Flash CS3 (and other CS3 products) for a grand total of 3 and a half hours and its fantastic, especially flash. However, I have noticed one thing and I wonder if you have too. I am on a Mac and I am saving as Flash 8 formats as that is what I was working in before and i thought it better to do so rather than switch file formats half way through my project at work. Every time i save, i have to Save As and replace, thats fine, but it kinda refreshes the screen, and lets say I am working in a movie clip which i access via the library, when it saves it brings me back to my main timeline! At the moment I am working on a movie clip which has a short timeline so its no problem to go back in it, but what happens if you're working on a movie clip with a silly amount of frames! It would take a while to find where you were working!

Anyone encountered this and is there a way to stop it in preferences maybe? I couldnt find anything :(

Theo

[pixelSnobbery]

Been looking into that - I don't think there's any way to change it. You can remove the warning that appears when you save something as Flash 8 by unchecking a box in preferences, but it doesn't seem to make a difference to the auto-refresh...

[spaghbol]

thank you for your quick reply. Thats such a shame - i have struggled with waiting 5 minutes + on every file save when using Flash 8 (files no bigger than 8mb or so, really taking silly amounts of time to save!) - and i was hoping I could save without it disrupting my work (i didnt think that saving work = disrupting work could ever be possible!) but obviously not. Damn it!

p.s. does it just refresh when you save as or does it do this even when you are just merely saving a CS3 file as a CS3 file?

I have found the answer to my question - if you start as a CS3 file, and you save or save As, there is no refresh. Its only when you are working on a flash 8 file in CS3 that it does that refresh thing - probably Adobe's way of saying "you know you love CS3, stop working flash 8 format!!!" but sometimes you have to :(

[hybrid101]

^lol, so just start converting your files:)

[pixelSnobbery]

^ The mighty Hybrid-one has a point... ;)

[spaghbol]

hahaha! I'm just worried that IF for some reason i need to use Flash 8, i wont be able to....but i think thats just me being paranoid :D

[Stratification]

You can always save back to the Flash 8 format later, as long as you don't add anything CS3 specific.