# Is Flash 6 MAC OSX only?!?!?!?!? **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [July 29, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-flash-6-mac-osx-only/769 "2002-07-29T15:31:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liamross23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@Liamross23](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Liamross23)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-flash-6-mac-osx-only/769/1 "2002-07-29T15:31:27Z")
Just made a stand alone flash projector in Flash MX on an AppleMac machine with OSX, I burned it to CD and stuck it into a machine with OS 9.1, tried to open it and was told I needed a download called carbon\_lib, I’ve tried it on about 10 OSX 9 machines since and always got the same result. This implies that there’s no point producing any projector flash work in FLASH MX as it wont work on anything less than a OSX Mac which the majority of Mac users don’t have?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-flash-6-mac-osx-only/769/2 "2002-07-29T16:15:47Z")
What you should do is publish your projector in flash 5 if its not that big of a problem and it doesn’t conflict with code. This allows for backwards compatability. And I think that there are more people using Mac OS X then you think, I’m using it right now. However I do understand what your saying. Good Luck Kyle ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-flash-6-mac-osx-only/769/3 "2002-07-29T17:10:02Z")
Thanks for your reply, the problem there is that Flash 5 wont let me bring in a flashmx .fla file. Looks like I’m rebuilding in 5 then. Liam.☹ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-flash-6-mac-osx-only/769/4 "2002-07-29T17:36:49Z")
Ditto - OSx user here too. But I haven’t played around with flash much on here. In any case, you don’t have to rebuild the whole thing in Flash 5. Just adjust the Publish Settings: go to the Flash tab and select “Flash Player 5” under “Version.” If you used Flash MX exclusive codes, it will give you a warning that this particular piece of code can’t be run under a Flash 5 player. Adjust that piece of code accordingly… not so bad and much easier than rebuilding from scratch.