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Flex Builder cannot locate the required debug version of the Flash Player problem, Simple Two Step Solution

April 22, 2008 shashankkulkarni Leave a comment Go to comments

Hi, This problem is what regularly me and many Flex guys faces,

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9d.ocx

Flex Builder cannot locate the required debug version of the
Flash Player. You may need to install the debug version of Flash Player 9.0
or reinstall Flex Builder. Do you want to try to debug with the
current version?

Well my personal experience is, After installing the latest flash player version too the issue remains unresolved and i keep getting the same error. lastly I decided to reinstall flex, But amzingly after reinstallling Flex Builder I was facing the same problem and really it was very frustrating,

After spending some time Well its programmers mind afterall may not be great one, I thought before installing new version lets reinstall the First one and thats how i got the solution,

Simple Two steps Solution

1. Reinstall the flash player with flashplayer Uninstaller.

2. Install the Flash plyer.

Wait…….. I know Ur Question would be where to get uninstaller and Latest player version :) then click the following link

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

Follow the steps mentioned above and :) Here you are ready to Rock Again with debugging facility :)

Best Luck :)

Thanks and regards

Shashank Kulkarni

Feel free to mail me :) shashank.pawan@gmail.com

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  1. cyberprodigy
    February 2, 2009 at 3:56 pm | #1
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    Did not help );

  2. shashankkulkarni
    February 12, 2009 at 7:12 am | #2
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    Hi,

    This solution was working for many of us.. Could you please Retry it there may be something missing..

    And One more thing with New Flash player 10 , The Error window for debugger failure gives you link

    http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html on this page install the following debugger and i guess this time it will work for you.

    Download the Windows Flash Player 10 Plugin content debugger (for Netscape-compatible browsers) (EXE, 1.97 MB)

    If you found anything interesting regarding this issue, please post here so that for many of us facing same problem, we could have a solution for it.

    Cheers
    Shashank Kulkarni

  3. Scott
    February 20, 2009 at 3:36 pm | #3
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    Installing the debugger version at http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html worked for me. Thanks!!!

  4. neicaiste
    February 21, 2009 at 7:05 pm | #4
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    Maaaan, you know there is such thing in the web like search engine, http://google.com if you don’t, go there to understand why this post is ….

  5. erotik
    March 9, 2009 at 4:17 am | #5
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    Dies ist ein groer Ort. Ich mchte hier noch einmal.

  6. mietwagen
    March 12, 2009 at 9:22 pm | #6
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    (I have translated this comment to English……..Very good site. I made it to the favorites)

  7. shashankkulkarni
    March 17, 2009 at 7:17 am | #7
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    Hi … neicaiste ,

    Dont Know u r irritated of this post or by ur own problem. If some thing is wrong here please let me know so that i can modify it.And this post is helping many people,But i can understand it may not be helping to all people like you. So if u can elaborate the problem we can find solution on it. Or its really critical you can log a bug on adobe’s site. It may help to many maaan.

    Please Have a spirit if u don’t find the help on internet. I have removed the last word used by you so i apologize for it but not acceptable here. Sorry for that :)

  8. Bernie X
    March 25, 2009 at 7:38 pm | #8
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    …Uninstalling and reinstalling didn’t work for me either. Flex 3 prompts me with a directory path to look for the a debugger:

    C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\Players

    I’ve not yet figured out how to change the directory path, but I have gone to the Adobe Flash Player Support Center and downloaded the stand alone Flash debugger.

    I renamed “flashplayer_10_sa_debug.exe” to “FlashPlayer.exe” and placed it in the directory above, overwriting the existing “FlashPlay.exe”.

    Flex debug function now works without error.

  9. shashankkulkarni
    March 26, 2009 at 8:39 am | #9
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    Yesss, Adobe people seems to have put an exact solution to debugger problem here http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html on this page install the following debugger
    Download the Windows Flash Player 10 Plugin content debugger (for Netscape-compatible browsers) (EXE, 1.97 MB)

    Unlike Previously we had to Uninstall the Player first and then Again install it with newer version. so i mean its really great that support center link is working great.

    Thanks to Adobe Guys

  10. shashankkulkarni
    March 26, 2009 at 8:52 am | #10
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    Just while working with Mozilla i had similar kind of problem so you can redirect your self to

    https://interactivesection.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/cannot-locate-required-version-of-flash-player-flex-debugging-warning-message/

    Its really a good post.

  11. Saket Jha
    July 14, 2009 at 2:30 pm | #11
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    Installing this version..
    Windows Flash Player 10 ActiveX control content debugger (for IE) (EXE, 2.03 MB)

    worked for me.
    Thanks :)

  12. Sreejith
    August 11, 2009 at 10:30 am | #12
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    This works fine.
    Saved a lot of time.
    Thanks a ton!!!!!!!

  13. Grace
    September 2, 2009 at 10:35 pm | #13
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    For netscape browsers, I had to go to the folder where the flash 10 ocx file was and rename the folder. simply uninstalling it did not work. then when i reinstalled the version 9 debugger, it worked. hope this helps someone.

  14. shashankkulkarni
    September 4, 2009 at 1:45 pm | #14
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    Hi Grace,
    Thanks for Visiting to the Blog,and Sure your comment will definatly help some body.
    In Pune Flex user Groups meet with an Adobe Evangelist Serge Jasper last month at Pune,India. I had raised the question about Errors behaviour in Flex and What is the possible ways by which they are going to solve it in Flex 4(Flash builder) for Developers. But round and round the answere was not clear. I hope They will solve such amazing erors in Flex 4 so that Developers will less suffer in Frameworks issue.

  15. David Wolpe
    September 21, 2009 at 2:06 pm | #15
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    None of the above worked for me. I have Flex configured so that I debug just with the flash player, not inside a browser. The message I was getting (I run Vista ::cough cough::) was that it couldn’t find the flash player debug version here:

    C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\Players\

    However, when I installed the Flash Debug player it seemed to be going here:

    C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash CS4\Players\Debug

    So I copied the player.exe from the Debug folder into the Players folder. Flex now debugs correctly.

    I imagine this now means that I’m running the debug version all the time — for any flash content I may come across on the web. I don’t know what the implications of this are. Does anyone?

    I poked around to try to simply reset the path in Flex Builder to point to the Debug folder (this would have meant I wouldn’t have to copy the debug player into the players folder) but couldn’t find a way to do that.

    – David

  16. Eric Anderson
    September 26, 2009 at 1:41 pm | #16
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    I have the Mac OSX version of this solution on my blog if anyone’s interested. JynxStudio

  17. Kun
    October 7, 2009 at 2:32 pm | #17
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    thanks that helped me a lot. ;)

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