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• • April 22, 2012 at 4:33 am #62035
    Tom Pardy

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    OK, so this is not directly related to InDesign. But I am sure I am not the only person faced with this dilemma and I don’t know where else to post it.

    Increasingly, all over the web, site after site seems to have videos that, although they will run when I click on the appropriate button (but see below), my view is obscured by a small dialog box in the middle of the video window. The appearance and wording of the box seems always to be the same and the behaviour (or lack of it) certainly is.

    The dialog box is headed “Adobe Flash Player Settings” and reads, “Local Storage. [the web site that hosts the video] is requesting permission to store information on your computer. Requested: up to 10KB. Currently Used: 1KB.”

    There are three button in the dialog box, a small round blue one up at the top with a question mark on it and two rectangular white ones at the bottom, one with a green check mark and the title “Allow” and the other with a red minus sign and the title “Deny”. But not one of the three works! Click! Click! Click! Nothing! There is nothing I can do the get rid of this pesty dialog box (it doesn’t have the usual Mac traffic lights at the top) and it means I can’t watch that video. If I do click the play button on the video itself, it will play behind the dialog box but it has no controls of its own. I can’t stop the play. The only way I can stop the play is to leave that page.

    I am running a 24-inch late 2007 iMac with OS X 10.7.3 on 2GB of SDRAM.

    Now here is the frustrating thing. In addition to my iMac (which is far and away my main machine) I also have a 2011 Mac Book Pro that I only use when I am on the road. The offending dialog box does not appear there! D’oh!

    I am tearing my hair out over this one. Is it just me?

  • April 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm #62059
    Tom Pardy

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    Wotsamatta?

    Only 13 views in three days. Surely I am not the only person with this problem?

  • July 17, 2012 at 2:58 pm #62621
    InPrint

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    I also have a mac and haven't had this problem, I recently bought it so I am running the Lion OS. Granted I haven't tried to use flash a whole lot, but I'm guessing that it's either the site itself or settings within the Lion OS.

    Your old pro might use a different OS that is more compatible with the current version of Flash. I also hear that Adobe will no longer be financing the Flash program, so I would expect more problems like this to pop up.

  • July 17, 2012 at 5:22 pm #62622
    Tom Pardy

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    I too am using Lion OS. That’s what 10.7.3 is (though now I am using 10.7.4, but it is still Lion). Since my MacBook Pro is a late 2011 model, I would hardy describe it as “old”. And it, too, uses Lion OS.

    Curiously, the problem seems to have resolved itself. I still get the dialog box but now clicking either the “Allow” or the “Deny” button actually works. Why it works now and didn’t work before is a complete mystery to me. It wasn’t the change from 10.7.3 to 10.7.4 as the improvement came some time after I installed the upgrade to the OS.

    I guess it must have something to do with sacrificing fatted calves to the computer gods! :-)

  • July 18, 2012 at 1:27 pm #62637
    InPrint

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    Hah! I suppose sacrificial calfs is one way to do it. I'm glad your problem got resolved. And also I suppose I didn't really have a grasp on what was 'old' haha. I assumed it was pre Lion. Correct me if I'm wrong but Lion is relatively new? It's my first Mac, perhaps I simply assumed too much.

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