# Attach movie problem
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-problem/56561
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 5, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-problem/56561 "2004-07-05T19:49:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@dude9er](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dude9er)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-problem/56561/1 "2004-07-05T19:49:50Z")
I’m having some issues with my attach movie. I’ve made a button that attaches a movie when pressed.
```auto
on (release) {
_root.MTMC.window.removeMovieClip();
_root.MTMC.attachMovie ("3d", "window", 1)
}
```
Now this works fine when I test the movie.
My main loads this movie into an empty movie clip called “emptyMC”. When I go to test the above code does not work when the button is clicked to attachMovie.
I’ve tried switching \_root to this and that didn’t work, and I tried switching \_root to \_parent and that didn’t work.
What is the code for attaching a movie that is nested in an empty MC in my main movie. I can’t figure this out.
Thanks for any help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-problem/56561/2 "2004-07-05T19:51:24Z")
I’m a little confused…is your container called emptyMC or MTMC?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-problem/56561/3 "2004-07-05T20:00:30Z")
hey adam, I have a container in my main movie called emptyMC. the portfolio.swf section is loaded into emptyMC. Portfolio.swf has a button that attaches a movie into it’s own empty mc called MTMC, but it’s not loading into MTMC, it definitely has to do with \_root, but I can’t figure out where the button should call the attachMovie into.
hope this makes sense.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-problem/56561/4 "2004-07-05T20:02:23Z")
try:
\_root.emptyMC.MTMC.attachMovie…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-problem/56561/5 "2004-07-05T20:07:57Z")
Hey Adam, I actually just tried that and it didn’t work. I’m not sure why. Anything else I might be able to try? I’ve been through eevrything I can think of so far.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-problem/56561/6 "2004-07-05T20:08:29Z")
Can you upload a zip of your main and portfolio fla?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-problem/56561/7 "2004-07-05T20:11:09Z")
scratch that Adam, looks like it’s working just fine now. totally weird how it wouldn’t take the first time. thanks for your help man.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attach-movie-problem/56561/8 "2004-07-05T20:11:38Z")
no problem, glad you got it 😃