Automated Flash Tracing via Terminal

I wrote a little command script that will allow you to see flash trace output in Terminal (OSX). It’s actually just 2 lines of commands:
cd Library/Preferences/macromedia/Flash\ Player/Logs/
tail -f flashlog.txt
But it get rather annoying having to type it out every time.

Before you can run this file, you need to create an “mm.cfg” file and toss it in the directory: MacHD:Library:Application Support:Macromedia:mm.cfg with the following lines inside it:
ErrorReportingEnable=0
MaxWarnings=0

After that’s done, just open the terminalTracer.cmd file with Terminal and you should be good to go. If the file doesn’t run because of permissions, you can do the following in terminal after you navigate to the file:
chmod 775 terminalTracer.cmd

You’ll need the Debug version of the Flash Player in order for this to work. Warning though that this will trace EVERY SWF in every flash player open (including banners in the browser).

I really just pilfered this process from this blog post.

Hope someone finds this useful. Weeeee!

Download the Command File here