Ok. I know very little php and nada about flash- just a caviat, but this is how I fixed it for myself.
Of course, I didn’t save my errors to copy here (sorry) and don’t want to reproduce them at the moment, but I was getting the input/output error, not the #1085 error.
It looked to me like flshow manager was looking for the .xml file in both the root directory of my wordpress install, and in the plugins/flshow-manager/resources/ directory, under the title/name that I gave it in the setup which was just for my reference. For example I gave my first flshow gallery the name Home Page, which became the slug home-page. flshow was looking for “https://mysite/wordpress_root/home-page”, and “https://mysite/wordpress_root/plugins/flshow-manager/resources/home-page”. So it’s looking for two files that (a)don’t exist where they are, and (b)have no file extensions.
So I took my .xml file, which was actually named flShow_carousel_446.xml (446 being the ID number of the carousel in the flshow manager interface), and actually located at /wordpress_root/uploads/flShow_carousel_446.xml … and I copied it to the /wordpress_root/ AND the wordpress_root/plugins/flshow-manager/resources/ directories, renaming it home-page.xml in both places. I also left it in the uploads folder as is.
Then I found line 805- 811 in flshow.php, which echo the filenames into your page. Mine looked like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
var flashVars = {xmlfile: '<?php echo $show->guid; ?>'};
var objectVars = {bgcolor: '<?php echo $background; ?>', allowFullScreen: <?php echo $fullscreen; ?>, wmode: '<?php echo $wmode; ?>'};
swfobject.embedSWF( '<?php echo path_join( $fl_show->plugin_url, 'resources/flShowCarousel.swf' ); ?>', '<?php echo $flash_container_id ?>', "100%", "100%", "9", false, flashVars, objectVars);
});
</script>
and I added
, ('.xml')
on line 807 just after
'<?php echo $show->guid
so that the end result (all of line 807) looks like this:
var flashVars = {xmlfile: '<?php echo $show->guid, ('.xml'); ?>'};
Which has worked for me, with one carousel. When I have time to try adding more I will see what happens. Good luck.