[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #7298: Gears Download Chokes on Flash (.SWF) File

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#7298: Gears Download Chokes on Flash (.SWF) File
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 Reporter:  jeffreymcmanus  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  Administration  |     Version:  2.6      
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:           
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 Firefox 3, OS X 10.5.4

 Just upgraded blog.jeffreymcmanus.com to WP 2.6, installed Gears, and WP
 tried to download all my WP stuff to the local machine.

 It appears as if WP is trying to download some kind of Flash file (is this
 WP's Flash uploader component?) and Gears won't let it. Error message as
 follows:

 Local storage status:  Error: Download of 'http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com
 /wp-includes/js/swfupload/swfupload_f9.swf' returned response code 404

 Disabled Gears, restarted browser, same error message.

 I'd suggest as a related usability issue on this, that telling the user to
 "disable Gears and try again" is OK (although it didn't work in my case),
 but I needed more information than "disable Gears" -- I just installed it
 for the first time two minutes ago and I had no clue how to disable it.
 Maybe say "disable the Gears browser plug-in" to distinguish it from some
 Wordpress admin feature?

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