I have a Flash application that uses SharedObject to save and read some data locally. As it is said everywhere Flash saves the data from the shared object to disk when the application is closed. And indeed it does when I test it with the stand-alone Flash Player or all of these browsers: Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, Flock... But it doesn't work when I use IE (I've tried IE6 and IE7).
Does anyone know anything about this issue? Why might it be happening... and how to get it to work?
Are you using MultipleIEs or standalone versions of the IE browsers? I've had issues with that as it seems they don't work properly when installed together.
The best way to be sure is testing your application on someone else's computer with only one version of IE installed.
EDIT: Check out the hints below:
It seems that if you install things in a special order evrything seems to work better.
Also check the IE Collection (finalbuilds.edskes.net/iecollection.htm) tool instead of MultipleIEs for better results.
Thanks for the idea... I hadn't thought of this.
I am using MultipleIEs and it doesn't work on both IE6 and IE7 that I have. But to be sure I checked it on other machines. On another PC with MultipleIEs everything works like charm in both IE6 and IE7. A third one with MultipleIEs works fine with IE7 but not with IE6... I also tried a few other PCs with just one original version of IE installed on each [lots of co-workers around :)] - one with IE8, one with IE7 and two with IE6. It was fine with IE8, IE7 and one of the IE6s, but the other IE6 was not working... So I'm getting more and more confused, since I can't seem to isolate the particular problem [or a mix of things that are causing the problem]...
Still... the best guess is that if you have a fresh clean version of just one IE it would hopefully work fine.
Again.. thanks a lot for your tip.
Cheers