# Diffrence between .unloadMovie and .removeMovieClip?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/diffrence-between-unloadmovie-and-removemovieclip/214928>\
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**Created:** [February 2, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/diffrence-between-unloadmovie-and-removemovieclip/214928 "2007-02-02T02:03:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![crazyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@crazyman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/crazyman)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/diffrence-between-unloadmovie-and-removemovieclip/214928/1 "2007-02-02T02:03:15Z")

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Hi, whats the difference between movieClip.unloadMovie(); and movieClip.removeMovieClip();

sometimes one works while the other doesn’t and sometimes neither work at all… whats up with that?