# I cannot seem to load external SWF

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**Created:** [September 10, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-cannot-seem-to-load-external-swf/63798 "2004-09-10T00:32:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![ksjtwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/47e85d/32.png) [@ksjtwo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ksjtwo)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-cannot-seem-to-load-external-swf/63798/1 "2004-09-10T00:32:44Z")

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**SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME**. I am trying to make a flash site. The movie home.fla is supposed to load services.swf when the “services” button is clicked. Can someone please tell me how to get this to work? I have a blank movie clip entitled “contents” in the actions layer. The links for both the FLA and SWF of each movie are below:  
[www.jacobsonweb.com/twelve8/home.fla](http://www.jacobsonweb.com/twelve8/home.fla)  
[www.jacobsonweb.com/twelve8/home.swf](http://www.jacobsonweb.com/twelve8/home.swf)  
[www.jacobsonweb.com/twelve8/services.fla](http://www.jacobsonweb.com/twelve8/services.fla)  
[www.jacobsonweb.com/twelve8/services.swf](http://www.jacobsonweb.com/twelve8/services.swf)

Thanks, please help

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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:** [September 10, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-cannot-seem-to-load-external-swf/63798/2 "2004-09-10T00:38:36Z")

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\_root.contents.loadMovie(“services.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:** [September 10, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/i-cannot-seem-to-load-external-swf/63798/3 "2004-09-10T02:30:13Z")

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> [@ratbaggy](#):
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> \_root.contents.loadMovie(“services.swf”)

I think thats what I tried, if you’ll look at the actionscript connected to the services button. The only difference is that I had \_root.contents.loadMovie(“services.swf”,1); but I originally tried the same line that you just gave me. it doesn’t seem to work for me.