Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Why are my flash game saves getting erased?

Question

After installing stand-alone flash games like Machinarium, Dino Run SE, and Space Rubbish (all of which are good games by the way) I find that my game saves keep disappearing.

I have read how cleaning programs like CCleaner can have this effect. I have CCleaner installed, but do not have it run automatically. I have found that whenever start and then quit IE 8, my saves disappear. I also run Firefox 7, but it seems to have no effect.

My question is: how can i stop IE from deleting these local Flash caches?

As a side note i wonder if any other browser does this by default.

Answer

Make sure you allow flash to save data to your hard drive.

Right click the flash game and select Setting (or Global settings). Under the "Storage" tab, make sure "Allow sites to save information on this computer" is checked.

Adobe also has a page you can use to set flash settings: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html

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