# duplicateMovieClip on MC's containing dyn. generated MC's

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip-on-mcs-containing-dyn-generated-mcs/147930>\
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**Created:** [May 15, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip-on-mcs-containing-dyn-generated-mcs/147930 "2005-05-15T16:19:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![stryke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@stryke](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stryke)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip-on-mcs-containing-dyn-generated-mcs/147930/1 "2005-05-15T16:19:45Z")

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Hi there

I have a movie clip that contains many many dynamically generated mc’s that have also some dynamically generated mc’s in them :glasses:  
Now i wanna duplicate that large MC … and of course that does not work cause it will not copy all those small MC’s that are contained. If I duplicate all the MC’s contained this also will not work. cause they contain generated MC’s and so on :crazy:

Okay enough blabla: Is there a possibility to duplicate the big MC containing all the small MC’s ???

I know Flash can’t do it but is there a way around it?

I had one idea of keeping an array of all the generated mc’s in my MC class. This works fine but when i duplicate one contained MC i wont get it into the duplication target, it will always be inside his \_parent movieclip ☹

Uhff… this really seems kinda complicated hope somebody can understand 😉