# \_root problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root-problem/270485>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [September 10, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root-problem/270485 "2008-09-10T13:33:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![CayoHueso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@CayoHueso](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CayoHueso)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/-root-problem/270485/1 "2008-09-10T13:33:28Z")

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Hi,

I got several FLA files from someone, and in all of them the coder used \_root all over the place. They work when viewing the exported SWFs independently, but when I load those SWF into another SWF, they stop working.

Is there any way to fix this without having to go file by file, changing \_root, to \_parent, or \_parent.\_parent, etc?

Thanks in advance for your help!