So I’ve got a data.sol file in C:\Documents and Settings\Aneurin\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player#SharedObjects\2LXKD92R\localhost - this is the data source of a Flash screensaver which updates concert information automatically.
The way it works is, the script checks whether the data.sol file exists - if not, then it grabs info from a PHP script online and saves it as a new data.sol. The Flash script should detect the age of the file - if the current time/date matches or is later than the time/date of the last update in the data.sol file, it should create a new one automatically and overwrite the old file. Yay, new updates.
However, this doesn’t seem to work on the test machines - instead, Flash picks up the old data.sol but refuses to update, because the file already exists. Is there a way to rename or delete the old data.sol exclusively within Flash? We intend to build in a button to carry out a failsafe data clear function, but as this is a screensaver it cannot be more complicated than this.
I don’t think I need to post the source code for the Flash movie - I just need to know how to get Flash to remove or change the data.sol file so that it will download the new update (and this may need to be done multiple times, so the method should be dynamic).
