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Copying the Lesson Files
The lessons in Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Classroom in a Book use specific
source files, such as image files created in Adobe Illustrator, video files created in
Adobe After Effects, audio files, and prepared Flash documents. To complete the
lessons in this book, you must copy these files from the Adobe Flash Professional
CS6 Classroom in a Book CD (inside the back cover of this book) to your hard
drive. Follow these steps to copy the lesson files:
1 On your hard drive, create a new folder in a convenient location and name it
FlashProCS6_CIB, following the standard procedure for your operating system:
• Windows: In Windows 7 or Vista, right-click and choose New > Folder.
Then enter the new name for your folder.
• Mac OS: In the Finder, choose File > New Folder. Type the new name and
drag the folder to the location you want to use.
Now, you can copy the source files onto your hard drive.
2 Drag the Lessons folder (which contains folders named Lesson01, Lesson02,
and so on) from the Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Classroom in a Book CD onto
your hard drive to your new FlashProCS6_CIB folder.
When you begin each lesson, navigate to the folder with that lesson number to
access all the assets, sample movies, and other project files you need to complete
the lesson.
If you have limited storage space on your computer, you can copy each lesson
folder as you need it, and then delete it after you’ve completed the lesson if desired.
Some lessons build on preceding lessons; in those cases, a starting project file is
provided for you for the second lesson or project. You do not have to save any fin-
ished project if you don’t want to or if you have limited hard drive space.
Copying the sample movies and projects
You will create and publish SWF animation files in some lessons in this book.
The files in the End folders (01End, 02End, and so on) within the Lesson folders are
samples of completed projects for each lesson. Use these files for reference if you
want to compare your work-in-progress with the project files used to generate the
sample movies. The end project files vary in size from relatively small to a couple of
megabytes, so you can either copy them all now if you have ample storage space or
copy just the end project file for each lesson as needed. Then you can delete it when
you finish that lesson.
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