# Flash8-Im in a Movieclip and can't get back to main timeline-help pls

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 25, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash8-im-in-a-movieclip-and-cant-get-back-to-main-timeline-help-pls/316543 "2010-11-25T00:02:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Starrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Starrey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Starrey)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash8-im-in-a-movieclip-and-cant-get-back-to-main-timeline-help-pls/316543/1 "2010-11-25T00:02:25Z")

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Hello and ty all for being here might just save my sanity. I am relatively new at flash/actionscript. As I said in title, Im making a project and on the maintimeline I put a movieclip. I can make it stop after playing; however, I cant figure out how to make it return to the main timeline. I have looked for an answer for 3 days and tried everything I found. I just cant figure it out. I have tried everything from \_parent.gotoAndPlay(3), to \_root to \_level0 and no flash love!!! I tried making empty movie clip called “santa” and adding the frames from symbol1 to that. Any help here would be most  
appreciated. At least I got to frame 2 before I got stuck…hahahaha.

Starrey aka WannaBe Flasher Goddess _smiles_

Link here to the Fla: [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15580822/XmasProject.rar](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15580822/XmasProject.rar)