Opening an FLA file

An FLA file is a Flash source file that contains all the animation and graphics. To manage this file you should have Macromedia Flash MX 6 or higher installed on your computer.

To open an FLA file in Macromedia Flash editor you should select “File/Open” from the top menu and browse to the location of your FLA file. A simpler way to open your file is just to drag and drop it from your file browser to your Macromedia Flash editor window. Also, if FLA files on your computer are based on the Macromedia Flash software, you can just double click it in your file browser and this file will be opened and ready to use.

Note: If you see the “Missing Font Warning” alert message, it means that you have not installed all the fonts included in the package. To get more information about font’s installation read the Working with fonts section.

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  • John Visser

    Hello,
    when I try to open the FLA file, a window asks me for the password, which I supply, and it then continues to opens up my Macromedia Flash 8 program but not the actual template. I can view the template as a SWF file but it does not allow me to make alterations?
    Can you please help
    Regards,
    John

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  • Chris Diaz

    Please make sure you extracted the files from the sources folder. The password should be used once when you extract files with WinZip. Please check the following tutorial:
    http://info.template-help.com/unzipping-your-template.html

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