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Shockwave Plug in problem

Hello,

I am trying to access a page that contains a game.

When trying to naviagate to this page it comes up saying this:

"The page “iSketch” has content of MIME type “application/x-director”, but you don’t have a plug-in installed for this MIME type. A plug-in should be available on this page:

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveDirector

Do you want to open the page?"

Now i believe i have downloaded shockwave ( if someone can help me check please) but still won't work...

Where do i find that plug in please?

ANY help is much appreciated 🙂

Josh

IMac, Mac OS X (10.4.10), Intel based

Posted on May 3, 2008 11:52 AM

24 replies

lills

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Jun 27, 2008 5:25 AM in response to Klaus1

I have shockwave 11, and some of the games on shockwave played automatically the first time I opened safari without having to download/install anything. but other games (like the sudoku I am addicted to), give me the error message.

Klaus1

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Jun 27, 2008 5:30 AM in response to lills

I guess it depends on which version of Shockwave the software was designed for.

lills

Level 1

14 points

Jun 27, 2008 6:57 AM in response to Klaus1

that is my guess as well although I think there has to be another step (maybe something with system updates), because all of the shockwave programs work on my mom's macbook.

Klaus1

Level 9

52,879 points

Jun 27, 2008 7:00 AM in response to lills

Have you tried deleting and then reinstalling Shockwave?

Repairing permissions?

lills

Level 1

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Jun 27, 2008 9:15 AM in response to Klaus1

yes, I also tried installing it via firefox as opposed to safari. the applecare person had me do an archive and install, which didn't work so he told me to do one without saving the settings and that didn't work. I even erase and installed and that didn't do it either.

Klaus1

Level 9

52,879 points

Jun 27, 2008 9:29 AM in response to lills

Firstly, Shockwave resides in Home/Library/Application Support/Macromedia.

Secondly, I get the same pop-up from iSketch, and the link they provide points to Shockwave 10.1.1.016, which is the one I have!

I am now going to update to Shockwave 11 and see if that makes any difference.

Klaus1

Level 9

52,879 points

Jun 27, 2008 10:03 AM in response to lills

Have you gone through the troubleshooting info here?

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403152&sliceId=1

I updated to Shockwave Player v.11, then went to iSketch and got the response that iSketch is not compatible with Shockwave 11 and that need v. 10!

If they can't keep their webpages up to date, I can't be bothered with them! V. 11 was released 3 months ago!

And BTW, same results in Firefox.

Let's abandon iSketch to its fate! 🙂

lills

Level 1

14 points

Jun 28, 2008 9:14 AM in response to Klaus1

I saw a post on an adobe forum saying that shockwave had been fixed. they said to make sure you had unistalled any previous versions and then to download and install again. I figured (even though I had uninstalled and reinstalled repeatedly over the last few days) that it was worth a shot. I tried it and it actually works now!

Klaus1

Level 9

52,879 points

Jun 28, 2008 9:19 AM in response to lills

Thanks for confirming that my advice was correct! 🙂

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