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Well, my original question was at least resolved. I think the drive I'm trying to get files off has other problems affecting the specific files I'm trying to get, but for the reference of anyone trying to (for some reason) recover Flash project files in the future, .FLAs can be recovered with their ...

Combing through the mislabelled doc files, it appears the transition between Flash 8 and CS doesn't have anything to do with whether the recovered file comes out as the proper .fla or mislabelled as something else. It's beyond me what causes this to happen.

It only spat out a couple of .db files, neither of which match the file size of the test file. However, by sheer brute force trial and error, I did encounter at least one of these large, unmarked .doc files that did open to a recognisable flash project file when the file extension was changed. At ...

That actually makes some sense - while waiting for your reply just now, I was investigating some of the other files it dug up, and I discovered a lot of SWF files had been recovered as SWC Flash Component files, and they can be easily unzipped and their contents opened normally, and I did encounter ...

Oh also, for reference, the thread that gave me the advice I menteioned: viewtopic.php?t=1529

It's .FLA.

Hi,

I'm doing recovery operations to retrieve a flash project file and I followed the instructions from this board to enable the .doc extension, and while it did retrieve .fla files, it didn't retrieve any from more recently than about 2012, which is around the time that I switched from Macromedia ...