# How do you access shared objects from other swfs?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 28, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-access-shared-objects-from-other-swfs/29601 "2003-08-28T15:35:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![chimpo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@chimpo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chimpo)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-access-shared-objects-from-other-swfs/29601/1 "2003-08-28T15:35:20Z")

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How do you go about altering the data in the shared object on a computer from one swf which is initialised in another swf?

thanks

chimpo