# My Flash MX 2004 Professional will not open older .fla files

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-flash-mx-2004-professional-will-not-open-older-fla-files/244144>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 14, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-flash-mx-2004-professional-will-not-open-older-fla-files/244144 "2007-11-14T17:31:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![unicornwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@unicornwalker](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/unicornwalker)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-flash-mx-2004-professional-will-not-open-older-fla-files/244144/1 "2007-11-14T17:31:57Z")

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I have a copy of flash MX 2004 Professional on my work computer but I’m having difficulties getting it to open some .fla files from flash MX (and flash 8). When I try to open the files I get the error message " unexpected file type." At first I thought it was because my files might be corrupt, I’ve been having troubles with my portable drive, but I decided to come here to Kirupa and download some source files and I got the same message so I think the problem is with MX 2004.

Has anyone had any problems with this or know how I might be able to fix it? I have downloaded the updater (do I have to run the updater or dose it update automatically?) but have not tried a fresh reinstall.

Any ideas?

Thanks