# Download file from Flash movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-file-from-flash-movie/11532>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 18, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-file-from-flash-movie/11532 "2003-01-18T18:35:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![biscuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@biscuit](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/biscuit)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-file-from-flash-movie/11532/1 "2003-01-18T18:35:21Z")

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I’ve just done a website solely in flash(mx) with a page of MP3’s that I want people to be able to download. In an HTML page you would just right-click and choose ‘download link to disk’ but if you do this in Flash you just get the Flash player options. How do i fix it so that people can download the mp3’s without embeding these huge files in the SWF?

Cheers.

Biscuit.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-file-from-flash-movie/11532/2 "2003-01-18T21:20:35Z")

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zip them and getURL on the zip

makes the file size smaller and .zip is an extension known by the browser to be downloaded and not opened

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-file-from-flash-movie/11532/3 "2003-01-19T11:45:23Z")

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Thanks very much, I’ll give that a try. I think I’m right in assuming you can get a mac version of zip. I could use stuffIt but pc users never seem to be able to decompress them.

thanks again for your help!

Biscuit.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-file-from-flash-movie/11532/4 "2003-01-19T19:39:09Z")

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Works like a charm!

Cheers Senocular.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/download-file-from-flash-movie/11532/5 "2003-01-19T19:46:09Z")

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😉