# Load movie error detection?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-error-detection/9841
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 19, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-error-detection/9841 "2002-12-19T15:10:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@yellowjacket](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/yellowjacket)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-error-detection/9841/1 "2002-12-19T15:10:52Z")
Need to be able to detect if there was an error loading the movie.
In test mode the output window display an error if file not found.
How do you get this information when not in test mode?
Does if (success) work for load movie as it does for loadvar?
Thanks,
YJ
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-error-detection/9841/2 "2002-12-19T17:18:05Z")
No, it does’nt, i wish it was. You can only trigger the swf when it load’s, by using bokel’s fix:
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10604](http://www.kirupaforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10604)
Also, you can create a time-out script, setInterval, or getTimer.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-error-detection/9841/3 "2002-12-19T19:04:01Z")
H88,
Thanks, but I neglected to mention that I am loading a jpeg file not a .swf and if there is a file error I get nothing where the file should be, not pretty!
YJ
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-movie-error-detection/9841/4 "2002-12-19T19:04:46Z")
> \*Originally posted by yellowjacket \*
> \*\*H88,
> Thanks, but I neglected to mention that I am loading a jpeg file not a .swf and if there is a file error I get nothing where the file should be, not pretty!
YJ \*\*
Exactly the same thing.