# Duplicating dynamically-loaded MovieClips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-dynamically-loaded-movieclips/243875>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 12, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-dynamically-loaded-movieclips/243875 "2007-11-12T06:35:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![amro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4491bb/32.png) [@amro](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/amro)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-dynamically-loaded-movieclips/243875/1 "2007-11-12T06:35:30Z")

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Hi!

I’m using the Loader class to load graphics from SWFs. However, I can’t figure out a way to clone the loaded MovieClips. This is very important because the graphics in question are reused dozens of times and Flash doesn’t seem to implement a caching mechanism.

I tried a duplicateDisplayObject() function I found floating around the net, it only crashed the IDE.

Any help would be appreciated.