Extension Manager CS4 Feature/Bug?
by WaiLam, November 4th, 2008

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This week, try to play with the new Adobe Flash CS4. After trying the new features, such as new bone system, 3d object, motion mixer etc. Amazing, the new version seem to have much improve on the authoring.

After the new features, i am trying to get the new version into my daily workflow. Then, i need to install some extension which i often use. But i stucked. I can’t find the components after installation. All components appear on the Extension Manager after install. But, after starting Flash CS4, i can’t find the components.

Why? After a free hour of investigation, i found that the extensions are installed but in a wrong directory. Extension Manager will copy the extension to the configure folder inside my doc. But, when i am running a English CS4 with a non-English system. It will copy the extension into a language folder with same language of the system and not the English language folder. P.S. i am working with a windows XP, i havn’t test if it happen in OSX.

I don’t know if it is a bug or a “feature” of the new Extension Manager.

To overcome this. I change the language of Extension Manger by:

1. Right click on the Extension Manger CS4 shortcut in the program folder. Open the preference.

2. Add the -locale lang=”en_US” after the command call to “……Adobe Extension Manager CS4.exe”

Hope this tips help.


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19 Responses to “Extension Manager CS4 Feature/Bug?”

  1. freddy Says:

    Hi, I’m having same bug… my components have disappeared in CS4. My windows vista it’s in spanish and my cs4 it’s in english :-( … I have done what you say but everything remains the same.

  2. freddy Says:

    yeah… now works, thank you very much

  3. Greg Says:

    I have the same problem on MacosX… Can’t find the way to repair this bug…

  4. WaiLam Says:

    Greg<<

    You can try start it from command line by:

    /Applications/Adobe Extension Manager CS4/Adobe Extension Manager CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Extension Manager CS4 -locale lang=”en_US”

  5. Bred Says:

    Interesting post. thank’s!

  6. OSX10.5.5-iTunes Says:

    This is maddening. SOME of my components are showing up, but not all. I can use the component from a previous Flash CS3 file, but it is not showing in the Components panels.

    WaiLam, the example you have about needs more info. How do we Mac heads use a command line after we select the app?

  7. OSX10.5.5-FlashCS4 Says:

    This is maddening. SOME of my components are showing up, but not all. I can use the component from a previous Flash CS3 file, but it is not showing in the Components panels.

    WaiLam, the example you have about needs more info. How do we Mac heads use a command line after we select the app?

  8. Johan Says:

    Hey, I had the same problem on Mac OS X. I contacted Adobe support and the solution is simple. Remove the current extensions in the extension manager. Open Flash CS4 -> go to Help -> select Manage Extensions. In that way the extensions are installed for the correct language. Restart Flash CS4. Hope this is useful.

  9. K Says:

    WaiLam – that is quite wrong. At least in OS X 10.5.

    I managed to get things working by manually copying everything to

    Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Flash\ CS4/en

  10. WaiLam Says:

    >>k

    yes, it is the simply way. Or, you can try method from JohanEdit .

    >>JohanEdit

    But i usually do double click on the mxp to install the components. And it open up the extension manager. It seem trouble that i need to reinstall by this method each time. Don’t know they will fix this issue in the future version.

  11. SaM Says:

    great, fixed my problem right away!!

  12. tony73 Says:

    I simply renamed the file of my language it_IT.xml in _it_IT.xml, in the Adobe \ Adobe Extension Manager CS4 \ ZStringResources now works all

  13. Mahmoud Says:

    Thank you very much … This bug has been bothering me for 3 months right now.
    Thanks a lot.

  14. Johan Says:

    Tried different solutions to this problem, so far nothing has worked for me. Swedish system with English installation of CS4. Looks OK in Extension manager, both from system and application. Nothing works, trying to use the McTween extension. Any ideas?

  15. Marion Says:

    I have also tried different solutions without any problem fixed. Its very confusion! I not sure if it is Adobes or Digicrafts which is responsible for this problem. I have Windows XP 64 bit English version. Use Flash CS4.

    Is there anybody who can help me?

    Don’t shop this program if you not an expert!

  16. Gyurci Says:

    Thanks Johan, working now! :)

  17. tekkie Says:

    Here’s the article on the same thing as I got it working for me (thanks to Johan above): How to make components in Flash CS4 appear again.

  18. jluisfg Says:

    hi, i´m running windows vista in spanish, but none of the components that i install appear when I open Flash CS4, anybody has an advice???

  19. waleed Says:

    Hello Wailam
    it always shows me this Error Message

    —————————
    Problem with Shortcut
    —————————
    The name ‘”C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Extension Manager CS4\Adobe Extension Manager CS4.exe”-locale’ specified in the Target box is not valid. Make sure the path and file name are correct.
    —————————
    OK
    —————————
    am i doing it with the right way ?
    have a look at this picture
    http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/1553/errorx.gif
    if you can please add screen-shot for what you did

    regards
    waleed

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