# \[Flash8\]How to use an already loaded mc?

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**Created:** [February 22, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash8-how-to-use-an-already-loaded-mc/217081 "2007-02-22T21:22:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xannax](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/xannax/32/3350_2.png) [@Xannax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Xannax)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash8-how-to-use-an-already-loaded-mc/217081/1 "2007-02-22T21:22:25Z")

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Ok, my question might look odd or stupid, but I have to ask.  
I have a pattern made of little boxes, each one being a MC that loads an external SWF file. There’s a little preloader in each little box.  
Now, once a swf is loaded, I want to be able to re-use it in other parts of the flash file, without having to reload it all over again. For example, one of the little boxes loads a picture of a donkey. Now if the user clicks the donkey box, the box scales up and displays the donkey. But there’s a dozen other boxes that can display the same donkey, or maybe I want to use the donkey later on in the flash file.  
Basically, my question is: once an external file has been loaded, and I load it again, do flash reloads the file all over again or will it just use the one which is already loaded? and if not, how do I tell him to use the one already loaded?  
I’m sorry if it’s not clear but it is kind of hard explaining my problem with my poor English skills.

And I read [http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=251216](http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=251216), but it didn’t really help me since my problem is a little different.