UPDATE: 15TH SEP 2010: FLUSH 3.1 released

Launch Flush to preview your flash cookies and then delete them.

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For those who do not know about Flash cookies, more properly referred to as Local Shared Objects (LSO), they operate in a similar way to regular browser cookies but are stored outside the purview of your browser, meaning you cannot delete them from within your browser, whether Safari, Firefox, Opera or any other. Typically they are issued from sites or 3rd party sites that contain Adobe Flash content. Since virtually all internet advertising is  delivered in Flash, Google/Doubleclick and all other internet advertising companies are sure to be tracking your browsing behavior with Flash cookies. These companies can see you traverse the Internet as you come upon the plethora of sites that contain their embedded advertising. Check out the Wikipedia entry here.

In Mac OS X they are stored in the following location:
/User’s Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects

The settings for the Flash cookies are stored in:
/User’s Home Folder/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys

In OS X Local Shared Objects, or Flash Cookies, are appended with a .sol suffix. Flush deletes the Flash cookies (.sol) and their settings.

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“License Expired. Licensing for this product has expired.”                                                                                                     – Adobe CS4, 2009



When Adobe CS4 issues this message on your Mac alarm bells might start going off in your head. Not to worry though,  simply quit all CS4 apps and delete the following file:

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache/cache.db

The above path refers to the top level Library immediately inside your Macintosh HD. Now when you restart your CS4 apps you’ll be prompted to license your product with a new serial number.

If you have lost your serial number / product key, or otherwise feel justified in so doing, you may download a CS4 keygen (key generator) which will work on your Intel Mac here.

If the Adobe activation servers are stopping you opening CS4, see ‘Stop Adobe CS4 calling home to Mother Ship in OS X’ .

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