About targeting local FLV files on the Macintosh

If you attempt to play a local FLV from a non-system drive on an Apple® Macintosh® computer by using a path that uses a relative slash (/), the video will not play. Non-system drives include, but are not limited to, CD-ROMs, partitioned hard disks, removable storage media, and connected storage devices.

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The reason for this failure is a limitation of the operating system, not a limitation in Flash Player.

For an FLV file to play from a non-system drive on a Macintosh, refer to it with an absolute path using a colon-based notation (:) rather than slash-based notation (/). The following list shows the difference in the two kinds of notation:

Slash-based notation: myDrive/myFolder/myFLV.flv
Colon-based notation: (Mac OS®) myDrive:myFolder:myFLV.flv

You can also create a projector file for a CD-ROM you intend to use for Macintosh playback. For the latest information on Mac OS CD-ROMs and FLV files, see www.adobe.com/go/3121b301.

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