# \_name change, movie clip won't remove

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-name-change-movie-clip-wont-remove/161756>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 6, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-name-change-movie-clip-wont-remove/161756 "2005-09-06T22:13:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Thinker2501](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Thinker2501](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Thinker2501)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-name-change-movie-clip-wont-remove/161756/1 "2005-09-06T22:13:21Z")

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I have a movieClip who’s name I changed with moveiClip.\_name = newName;  
I can then take newName.\_x or \_y or any other property and alter it just fine, but when I do \_root.newName.removeMovieClip(); it won’t remove it. And going removeMovieClip(\_root.newName); won’t work either. Any ideas??