# File Paths: The Bane of My Existence (help)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/file-paths-the-bane-of-my-existence-help/201408>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 21, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/file-paths-the-bane-of-my-existence-help/201408 "2006-09-21T00:02:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ZeypheR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ba9def/32.png) [@ZeypheR](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ZeypheR)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/file-paths-the-bane-of-my-existence-help/201408/1 "2006-09-21T00:02:21Z")

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Hi all, I am about ready to make a site i’m working on live, and I realized after uploading my main SWF that the file paths to my other external SWFs might be a bit off. When I made the site I put everything in the same folder, so my code would look like this

```auto

loadMovie ("swfName.swf");

```

When I put them all online it doesn’t want to seem to load the SWFs, i fear because it can’t ‘see’ them. So i tried “…/flash/swfName.swf”, and it worked, but thats going to be a pain because I have to change that in many places. Is there a way to declare in my main SWF where it should look for everything? Say, in the same folder, or in another folder?

Its a noob question I know, still kind of new to this whole thing.

Thanks