# Load image from hard drive to movieclip?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-image-from-hard-drive-to-movieclip/230366>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 25, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-image-from-hard-drive-to-movieclip/230366 "2007-06-25T19:07:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![claireg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@claireg](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/claireg)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-image-from-hard-drive-to-movieclip/230366/1 "2007-06-25T19:07:22Z")

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Evening All,

I am in the middle of building a kind of image editing application.

Basically the user uploads their picture and then can draw on it, (sounds silly I know!).

I was toying around with allowing them to just upload their file onto my server where it would be saved and then they could edit it through flash, but I don’t want the responsibility of \*\*\*\*, child \*\*\*\* cyber bullying etc going on on my webspace!! :cop:

So I’m trying just “loadMovie” with the local path of a file, but it is not loading when I put the swf on the web! It all works fine locally but not on the web?

Is there some security bypass I can write into my actionscript that will allow this?