Today i’ve had some trouble getting the Flash Debug Player working on my new iMac. I downloaded the content debugger for Intel-based Macs from the Adobe Flash Player Support Center and installed it. The problem was, it didn’t work…. no mm.cfg, no flashlog.txt
After some surfing i found out that the easiest way to get things working is to install the fabulous Firefox Add-on Flash Tracer from Alessandro Crugnola. Besides the add-on itself, it creates 2 files: flashlog.txt (HD/Users/username/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/Logs/flashlog.txt) and mm.cfg (HD/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Macromedia/mm.cfg). This makes all the difference! All the traces of my flash movie are stored in the flashlog.txt file and are shown in the Flash Tracer (when pointing it once to the flashlog.txt file)
If you don’t want to install Flash Tracer you can create the mm.cfg file manually. It should look something like this:
ErrorReportingEnable=0
TraceOutputFileEnable=1
MaxWarnings=500
I believe you also have to create an empty flashlog.txt file manually, but i’m not sure. Hope this helps!
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August 6th, 2007 at 12:36 am
I am having the same problem as you were having on my intel based macbook. I have installed different versions of the debug player and I cannot for the life of me get the flashlog.txt files, even with the Flash Tracer installed.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
likewise here. I create the flashlog.txt and even that .cfg file. But nothing ever writes to the flashlog.txt file when I view my flash file with traces in it. GRRRRR!