# \#include "file.as" not working on macs
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/include-file-as-not-working-on-macs/17853
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 10, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/include-file-as-not-working-on-macs/17853 "2003-04-10T01:04:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@shuga](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/shuga)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/include-file-as-not-working-on-macs/17853/1 "2003-04-10T01:04:16Z")
i have some as included from an external file. it works fine on my pc at home at work and everywhere else i’ve tried it … but i’m on a mac at school and then i checked it at my friend’s house who has a mac … and it doesn’t work. it’s like the code isn’t even included
does anyone have any information on how to fix this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/include-file-as-not-working-on-macs/17853/2 "2003-04-10T01:07:49Z")
everything is the same otherwise?
are you grabbing includes from the current directory or the include directory? (and with this are you sure they are there heh - I would assume so though)
Ill have to try it out at work tomorrow… OSX or under?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/include-file-as-not-working-on-macs/17853/3 "2003-04-10T02:45:46Z")
OSX and under … i’m pretty sure school is running OS9 and my friend uses OSX
.as file is in the same dir as the .fla
[http://www.aaronsleeper.com/site.fla](http://www.aaronsleeper.com/site.fla)
[http://www.aaronsleeper.com/imageloader.as](http://www.aaronsleeper.com/imageloader.as)
those are the files
in the fla the files are being called from \_root.window.content.techtext and from designtext on the same path
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/include-file-as-not-working-on-macs/17853/4 "2003-04-14T05:23:29Z")
so did it work for you on your mac senocular?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/include-file-as-not-working-on-macs/17853/5 "2003-04-14T11:02:55Z")
well AN .as include worked. I dont know what yours does and really dont have enough time to try to figure it out, but I just made an as with a trace in it, included it in the first line of your file and it worked fine. Its probably just your use of the code
I can tell you one thing, you only need to define prototypes once. Your as file has 2 or 3 in it and including those more than once is unnecessary (and ultimately adding to file size).
I think you just need to try to figure out the logistics of whats not working :-\