# Cancel loading before completed

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cancel-loading-before-completed/197309>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 15, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cancel-loading-before-completed/197309 "2006-08-15T13:39:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df788c/32.png) [@Whaka](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Whaka)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cancel-loading-before-completed/197309/1 "2006-08-15T13:39:25Z")

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Hello,  
I am getting some strange results while loading large files dynamically, and testing my movies. Even if I delete the object in which the external file is loading, the bandwidth of the loading seems to continue.

Either Im not doing a good job of cleaning up after myself, or the test environment when exporting a movie isn’t accurate, or … there is no way to cancel the effects of

```auto
loadMovie()

```

mid way through the loading.

While testing at least, if I have used

```auto
loadMovie()

```

or

```auto
loadSound()

```

, the bandwidth usage produced by these methods continues to burden my movie even after I call (for example)

```auto
delete my_sound

```

. I cant seem to stop the loading until the entire file has been downloaded.

Is this going to be the case online? (difficult for me to test right now)  
Is there a way to break off the loading once it has begun? (I thought by deleting the object that called the loading function, I would end the loading)

Hope some one can shed some light on this for me?

Thanks,  
bill