690 Understanding Security
You can add an individual file or an entire directory. If you add an entire directory, all the
files and subdirectories in that directory are trusted. Some Flash content consists of
multiple related files, and you might need to trust the entire directory where all the related
files are located. In general, avoid trusting top-level directories.
2. Click Confirm.
The location is added to the Security Settings panel. Locations listed are always allowed to
use the older security rules, even if the Always Deny or Always Ask options at the top of
the Security panel are selected.
After you add trusted locations, you must restart the local Flash content by either
refreshing the browser or restarting the player.
If you click Always Allow, it only applies that setting to always allow legacy content (Flash
Player 7 and earlier). The setting does not āalways allowā Flash Player 8 content. It is
recommended that you specify the Flash applications and directories on your computer that
can communicate with both the Internet and the local file system.
Creating configuration files for Flash development
The Flash 8 authoring tool sets a flag on your hard disk to identify you as a developer to direct
you to a specific developer-oriented version of the Global Security Settings panel instead of a
user-oriented Global Security Settings panel. The flag is in the FlashAuthor.cfg file on your
hard disk, which installs automatically when the Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8
authoring tool installs.
The FlashAuthor.cfg file is located in the following approximate directories:
Windows boot disk\Documents and Settings\<UserName>\Application
Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\#Security
Macintosh /Users/<UserName>/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#Security/
By default, this file is set to
LocalSecurityPrompt=Author, which means the warnings you
see on your computer treat you as a Flash developer as opposed to a user without the
authoring tool installed.
You can test your local applications as an end user and see the warning dialog boxes that an
end user would encounter. To do so, open FlashAuthor.cfg in a text editor, and change the
LocalSecurityPrompt in the FlashAuthor.cfg file to match the following:
LocalSecurityPrompt=User
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