# \_root problem?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root-problem/126518
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 24, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root-problem/126518 "2004-10-24T22:39:40Z")
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### Author: ![fso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6a8cbe/32.png) [@fso](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fso)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root-problem/126518/1 "2004-10-24T22:39:40Z")

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Im using the flash db guestbook that works great if loaded by itself, but if I load it into another MC it doesnt work…

You can see it working here…  
[http://www.iamaugust.com/guestbook/guest.html](http://www.iamaugust.com/guestbook/guest.html)

Here it is loaded into another MC:  
[http://www.iamaugust.com/index2.html](http://www.iamaugust.com/index2.html) —\>guestbook

Im calling the movie clip like this…  
The Guestbook button is calling an empty movie clip on the root with this:  
on (release) {  
\_ \_ tellTarget ("\_root.guestbook") {  
\_ \_ \_ \_ gotoAndPlay(“start”);  
\_ \_ }  
}

The empty MC is then calling the actual swf…  
loadMovieNum(“merch.swf”, 1);

I tried to change all the references of \_root in the guestbook.swf to \_parent but that didnt help either…

Any ideas…does this make sense??