Putting this up here as much for my future reference as I am to help anyone else who runs into it.
I run dual monitors at work. Actually a laptop with an additional monitor. Sometime if I bring the laptop home, so it’s all by itself, the settings for where apps are located get all confused. This happened this morning. Flash was maximized on the smaller laptop screen. I minimized it so I could drag it over to the larger external display. But it zoomed off somewhere over the rainbow. I tried Alt-Shift, Move to try to bring it back, but no luck. Restarted. Rebooted. It was just gone. I could maximize it to the original screen, but if not maximized, it was out in left field.
I figured the window location setting must be written somewhere. I fondly recalled the good old days of win.ini files… But figured I’d check out the Flash config directory first. There is was, in panelset.xml:
< application maximize="false" rect="50 10 63 22"/>
Actually, my rect had values like -5430, etc. I just set those to less extreme values, saved, restarted Flash, and it found its way home.
I have the same kind of setup you describe and come across this problem quite often. Great tip 🙂
Alt+Space and Move works for me when this happens, but only after I press one of the arrow keys and then move the mouse. For some reason mouse doesn’t move the window without first nudging it with arrow keys.
Yeah, I know just what you mean about Alt+Space, the keyboard and mouse. I’ve used that for other apps plenty of times, but this wasn’t doing anything this time.
Great tip Keith! Now I don’t need to delete the entire “C:\Documents and Settings\Luis\Local Settings\Application Data\Macromedia” to restore to the default configuration when it happens. Well sometimes it is still the easiest way! 😀
I have run into this problem many times in the past. The quick fix for any app is to simply change the screen resolution to something smaller. Then back to your prefered setting.
I was about to mess with “workspacelayout.xml” (I’m on Flash CS3, it’s been almost three years since this post!), but decided to google for that tag before doing something bad and found this post…. and it saved the say, including for the alt+space tip Erki gave. Both tips are on the box now! Thank you!