# Blind as a bat dumb as a rock - loader tut anguish

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blind-as-a-bat-dumb-as-a-rock-loader-tut-anguish/110829>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 20, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blind-as-a-bat-dumb-as-a-rock-loader-tut-anguish/110829 "2004-05-20T07:39:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/blind-as-a-bat-dumb-as-a-rock-loader-tut-anguish/110829/1 "2004-05-20T07:39:15Z")

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Ok so I’m reading up on the one frame preloader in the tutorials [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/preloader.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/preloader.htm)  
and I’m doing everything it says step by step - or so I thought but my preloader aint preloading like it’s suppose to - I think.

It seems that when i get to section iii I’m A OK, and then I do the whole copy and paste thing, but then in section v where I add my loader MC in frame 1, things just seem to fall apart.

I test the movie before adding an mp3 to it and the LOADER M seems to run just fine. Then I add the mp3 to it and the loader dosen’t do a thing. So What gives?

here is my \*.fla [http://www.cybersoapbox.com/graphics/Space2001TestLoader.fla](http://www.cybersoapbox.com/graphics/Space2001TestLoader.fla)  
and the swf too.  
[http://www.cybersoapbox.com/graphics/Space2001TestLoader.swf](http://www.cybersoapbox.com/graphics/Space2001TestLoader.swf)

So which is it am I as blind as a bat or dumb as a rock. And when your done answering that can you tell me why it aint preloading.