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First run folder
different purpose. This folder is a simple mechanism created specifically for the Flash authoring
tool that facilitates the sharing of configuration files among users of the same machine. Folders
and files in this folder are automatically copied by Flash to the user-level configuration folder. Any
new files placed in the First Run folder are copied to the Restricted Users folder when you start
the application.
Typical paths to this folder are as follows:
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Windows: \Program Files\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\language\First Run\
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Macintosh: HD/Applications/Macromedia Flash MX 2004/First Run/
User-level configuration folder
This folder is always writable by the current user. Typical paths to this folder are as follows:
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Windows: \Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application
Data\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\language\Configuration
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Macintosh: HD/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/Flash MX 2004/
language/Configuration/
Note: Flash MX 2004 for Windows uses the Local Settings folder for the user-level configuration
files. This differs from Flash MX and the rest of the Studio MX family (including Dreamweaver MX
2004), which all use the Roaming Profile configuration folder for user-level configuration files.
Roaming profiles allow network users to automatically store their configuration settings on a network
server, and then move to different workstations on the network and always have an application load
the same configuration files.The Local Settings folder differs from the Roaming Profile folder in that
files in Local Settings are not saved to a server when the network is set up to support roaming
profiles.
All-user-level configuration folder
profile area. This folder is part of the standard Windows and Macintosh operating system
installations and is shared by all users of a particular computer. Any files that are placed in this
folder are made available by the operating system to all users of the machine. Typical paths to this
folder are:
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Windows: \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Macromedia\
Flash MX 2004\language\Configuration
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Macintosh: HD/Users/Shared/Application Support/Macromedia/Flash MX 2004/language/
Configuration
Restricted users configuration folder
workstation. Typically, in a networked environment, only system administrators have
administrative access to workstations. All other users are given restricted access, which usually
means that these users can't write to application-level files (such as the Program Files directory in
Windows or the Applications folder on Macintosh OS X).
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This folder is a sibling to the application-level configuration folder, but serves a
This is the configuration folder found in the user profile area.
This is the configuration folder found in the common user
This is the folder for users with restricted privileges on a