# Flash Crashes after changing the font name

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-crashes-after-changing-the-font-name/304957>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 17, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-crashes-after-changing-the-font-name/304957 "2010-02-17T06:34:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![dpdragnev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9f8e36/32.png) [@dpdragnev](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dpdragnev)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-crashes-after-changing-the-font-name/304957/1 "2010-02-17T06:34:32Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I experienced a very strange problem today. As I was working on my FLA file, I tried to paste some text into a static text field using CTRL+V (I am using Vista Home Premium). However, at the time the focus was on the font field in the property window instead of on the text field and all the text I wanted to paste replaced the font name. As I tried to open the font drop down list to select the correct font flash crashed.

Since then I have not being able to open any FLA files. Flash starts without a problem, but if I try to open any FLA file it crashes again. I also tried creating a new FLA file but without success. I copied the FLA in question to another machine and there the file opens without a problem, so the file itself is not corrupted.

I am assuming that the long text I copied in the font field somehow had corrupted Flash and maybe I have to reinstall it, but before doing this, I thought that someone may have a better idea how to solve this.

Thank you for your help,

Daniel D.