Adobe Flash is not working in Safari (5.1.7 Snow Leopard)

Yea I think I'm going to go the "new user" route myself. So I'm going to

* make new admin account

* use that to delete my current account (with the keep all files option)

* make a new account

* make a copy of this new account's /Users/<name> dir for easy reset

* start moving things in from my old account (still in /Users due to the "keep files" option)

Here is a somewhat old, but still useful article on this activity

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10386342-263.html

Exactly how did you do the move of old data to your new user? I ask as one would have suspected that something in /Users/<you>/Library or preferences or something was what was causing this. If you moved everything and overwrote the corresponding files in the new users dir, then I guess that blows that theory. It also makes it easy to do. I was thinking I'd have to do it in pieces and keep testing to see if it was working or not.

Glad to hear you got it working. Must be a relief.

Thanks jkk. A couple more questions:

"Add a new User and give it Admin rights. It will ask if you want to keep and folders. Click the last option to not save any folders." These choiices (save home folder to a disk archive, do not chnage home folder, and delete home folder) are shown (for me anyway) when you are deleting a user, not when you are adding one. So there should not have been anything to remove in your step of dragging your old user to the traash. So I don't quite understand that.

It also will not let you delete the user you are logged in as, (the - is grayed out) so you must have done this after logging in as the new user.

But the key question is that when you did the copy back from USB, did it warn about files (e.g. in ~/Library) being newer then the ones you are coyping and did you say to overwrite?

yeah, when I deleted the old user, I did not keep anything. Get rid of that old home directory. The problem most definately is somewhere in my old settings. so, simply creating a new Admin User and having backed up only my Data and no settings, worked. Very easy to do.

jkk

yeah, what I did exactly is in Finder, on the left, click on your HD. On the right, click on User Folder. Here, you should see your "personal" folder and probably "Public" Folder. I insert my USB stick and when it's recognized, I drag my "personal" folder into the USB on the left. It will then start to copy everything and yes, Library is not in that folder. Only your data and no settings.

jkk

Has anyone discovered how to fix this? I can only view flash files in some websites in a Standard account and not a Admin account. It's really weird. I can live without it but it's killing me on why all of a sudden it doesn't work.

Thanks

Jay

OK, hears my final post. Hope everyone understands. It's very easy to do.

1. Create new User and give that new User name Admin Rights. Add Password. ( This in in your System Preferences).

2. Go into your current User Folder and backup your Docs, music, movies, pics etc.... with a USB memory stick.

I had about 15GB of Data. Do not copy any libraries, preferences, etc. Just the folders in your Old User Account.

3. Sign out and restart in your new User Account.

4. Go into Finder, Click on User Folder and go to your new User Account. Copy all your Data from the USB into your new user account.

5. Go back into System Preferences, then Users, and delete your old User Account. Click the last option to NOT save anything!

6. Mine ended up in my Trash. Delete your trash, 15GB worth for me.

7. Shut Down then Restart in your new User Account.

8. Everything should be there, ready to go. Some 3rd Party apps may ask for the serial number again, for you to register. I only had that on two apps. No big Deal.

9. Do one final check. Go into Finder, click on Users and make sure only your New User Account folder is there, along with, I think, a Shared folder. If your old folder is still there( it was in my case) I deleted to trash then got rid of it for good.

All should be good

The scroll bar indicator of the video stops working for me on youtube. The video continues to play but you can move forward or back in timeline. It does not show where it is on the time line, the pointer/indicator just sits and the beggening of it. Also hitting spacebar does not seem to pause or start to play the video, the video just keeps going on. Any one knows how to fix this? This never used to happen.

This problem does not seem to happen on Chrome. Just checked, vidoes are working fine

10.7.5

Latest Safari

Latest Adobe Flash

I have been having this problem and was doing the same thing everyone else here has tried. Just now, I uninstalled some Safari extentions I had downloaded like Do Not Track, Ad Blocker, and a couple that kept Google and facebook from tracking me. Now the videos are working!

I've had this trouble, it just resolved somehow, but recently I had an embarrassing situation... the magic mouse jumps all around and when i was in Safari preferences I had accidently unchecked "enable internet plug-ins", while not realizing this i spent time and time again reinstalling the flash plug-in, repaired disc permissions etc, then finally checked my Safari preferences and noticed the problem DUH. Works fine again.

I ran into an issue this evening where I was unable to play embedded videos on Facebook when running Safari (Safari v6.0.2, Mac Pro running OSX 10.7.5, Flash v11,5,502,110). Videos directly on YouTube and CNN.com were viewable just fine.

Using Linc's solution (Removing / Deleting all data) solved my issue and videos are now viewable directly from Facebook once again. Thanks!

Many thanks to all the contributions (over four pages). My problem was that Safari [5.1.7 on 10.6.8] had suddenly stopped playing YouTube videos. Firefox played them, but not Safari.

Having checked most of the recommendations (except those too techie for me) I re-downloaded Flash Player and Shockwave Player.

Success!

Thanks again.

David

Thank you so much Semus. For some reason my Flash Player stopped working this morning and I was constantly being told to download Flash Player, which I kept doing. No amount of uninstalling and reinstalling worked or changing suggested settings.

Having a feeling of hopelessness 😢 😟 I thought I would come back to my computer ( IMac OS X 10.6.8) and try one more time before I went to bed ( 00.15 am) to see if there was an answer to be found.

Hey presto!!!! 🙂

I found your post. So simple. Magic. I am soooooo grateful.

Now I know who to seek out when I have a problem 😍

areyoutryingtolosecustomers: Thank you for your post. I had uninstalled, reinstalled, etc and nothing worked. The problem was what you mentioned--Web content: enable plugins was unchecked. Simple fix! All working now.

Seriously, SeamusBerkelyfineart, THANK YOU.

Didn't have flash for months on Safari. Felt like living in PC world...

Safari 5.1.7

Flash 11

never worked, uninstalled flash, deleted safari, etc ad nauseum. Your simple method worked.