Flash tracer stopped working ? -remedy

Flash tracer, which has been my savior for the past 1.5 years, updated itself today and stopped working ever since. I tried all kinds of tricks but failed.

I have helped numerous developers to set up Flash Tracer during the time I benefit from it and every time it works like a charm… Not this time though… I can get traces in Flash Tracer if I am debugging inside Flash IDE, nothing if I have a Flash website open in Firefox. So I guess it might be a sandbox issue?

I am on Mac OS X version 10.4.11, Firefox version 2.0.0.12. If that makes a difference. My log file is saved at /Users/{user name with no weird characters} /Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/Logs/flashlog.txt. I have mm.cfg file saved at /Users/{user name with no weird characters} /Library/Application\ Support/Macromedia/mm.cfg as well as /Users/{user name with no weird characters}/mm.cfg .

Thanks Alessandro, for saving my life millions of times.

[update] I just made my Flash Tracer work today. Here is what I did: I created the log file at the directory above, then uninstalled and reinstalled the Flash Player. (Why didn’t I think of that before?)

Change default background color in Flex compiler

to do this once and for all, instead of having to add the code in every project. The trick is to add additional compiler arguments in compiler property. (Note the orange box).