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Asked: 2026-06-08T23:13:50+00:00

Problem A few of us running either Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion

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Problem

A few of us running either Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion and installing the FlashBuilder 4.6 eclipse plug-in are experiencing an issue where the plug-in simply does not show up in Eclipse. The installation adds a file under the /dropins directory called fb-4_6-plugin-encoded.link that is supposed to tell Eclipse the location of the Adobe FlashBuilder installation.

The scenarios we have encountered are as follows:

  • Plug-in is registered, but does not show up. Running Eclipse with -consoleLog shows no errors.
  • Eclipse running with the -consoleLog switch says that the fb-4_6-plugin-encoded.link file is not accessible. Doing a chmod 777 on the file fixes the issue and the plug-in is registered.

Here are the notes from the README that comes with FlashBuilder:

Flash Builder 4.6 supports installation as a plugin to an existing
Eclipse instance.

To do so:

  1. Complete the installation process as described above.
  2. Navigate to the installed Flash Builder installation location and open the utilities folder.
  3. Run the executable Adobe Flash Builder 4.6 Plug-in Utility.app.
  4. Select the language and click on OK.
  5. Select the Flash Builder installation location if prompted.
  6. Select the eclipse folder into which you want Flash Builder 4.6 to be plugged into and click Next. (Note: Your copy of Eclipse must be
    version 3.6/3.6.1/3.6.2/3.7, 32-bit, Cocoa, containing a folder named
    “dropins”).
  7. Review the pre-Installation summary and click on Install.
  8. Following installation it is recommended that you edit the eclipse.ini file for your Eclipse instance, so that it includes the
    following settings:
    -vmargs -Xms256m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:PermSize=64m

Questions

Is there any Eclipse magic that can be performed to further investigate the issue? Is there any way to manually register the FlashBuilder plug-in (or generally a dropins style plug-in)?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I faced same problem.

    I executed. 

    /Applications/eclipse/eclipse -consoleLog

    Error happened like this:

    1 java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Applications/eclipse/dropins/fb-4_6-plugin-encoded.link (Permission denied)
    2 at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
    3 at java.io.FileInputStream.(FileInputStream.java:120)
    4 at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.reconciler.dropins.DropinsRepositoryListener.getLinkedRep ository(DropinsRepositoryListener.java:133)

    To solve problem, I did two command:

    chown YOUR_LOGIN_ACCOUNT fb-4_6-plugin-encoded.link  
chmod 755 fb-4_6-plugin-encoded.link

    The plugin showed up.

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