# How do i use unloadMovie?

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**Created:** [July 15, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-use-unloadmovie/57738 "2004-07-15T19:43:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![seanc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@seanc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/seanc)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-use-unloadmovie/57738/1 "2004-07-15T19:43:51Z")

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i have 2 blank movieclips in my scene, each one is there to load seperate external swf’s into when hitting a corresponding button. i need to write a script that will tell the first swf opened to unload when you load the second one. here is the script i have so far:

on (release) {  
loadMovie(“email.swf”, “external”);  
}  
(that script is on the first button, external is the name of the black movie clip in the scene to load the swf into)

on (release) {  
loadMovie(“thumbss.swf”, “external2”);

}  
(that script is on the second button, external2 is the second blank movie clip.

i tried just adding a simple command like this to each button to unload one when the second clip is loaded, but it failed:

on (release) {  
loadMovie(“email.swf”, “external”);  
unloadMovie(“thumbss.swf”);

}  
what do i do? any ideas? thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-use-unloadmovie/57738/2 "2004-07-15T19:47:44Z")

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try targeting your mc:

external.unloadMovie(“thumbss.swf”);

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-use-unloadmovie/57738/3 "2004-07-15T20:12:23Z")

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awesome, it worked, thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-use-unloadmovie/57738/4 "2004-07-15T20:55:29Z")

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welcome.