# Load / Unload FLAs- please help
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-unload-flas-please-help/260083
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**Created:** [May 12, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-unload-flas-please-help/260083 "2008-05-12T14:20:13Z")
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### Author:  [@abhikumar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/abhikumar)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-unload-flas-please-help/260083/1 "2008-05-12T14:20:13Z")
I am loading external SWFs on my main flash file.
For every External SWFs:
They also have multiple levels. There is a base SWF and then 5 levels of other external SWFs there.
So- i load an external SWF on my main flash and that external SWF also has its own external SWFs.
This is how i do that:
on my main flash file… i create a blank MC:
**this.createEmptyMovieClip(“blank1”, this.getNextHighestDepth());**
Now, by default i load my first external MC there (ExtMC1)
**\_root.blank1.loadMovie(“ExtMC1.swf”);**
Now i have a button (Button2) and when it should be clicked- it should replace ExtMC1 with ExtMC2.
**\_root.blank1.loadMovie(“ExtMC2.swf”);**
This just don’t work because it does replace the base file for ExtMC1 but the external SWFs within ExtMC1 remains on the main flash file…
so i use this instead:
**button2.onRelease = function() {
unloadMovieNum(1);
unloadMovieNum(2);
unloadMovieNum(3);
unloadMovieNum(4);
unloadMovieNum(5);
\_root.blank1.loadMovie(“ExtMC2.swf”);
};**
so basically i clear all the levels first and then load my second MC (ExtMC2.swf).
similarly to load my third MC i use this on button 3:
**button3.onRelease = function() {
unloadMovieNum(1);
unloadMovieNum(2);
unloadMovieNum(3);
unloadMovieNum(4);
unloadMovieNum(5);
\_root.blank1.loadMovie(“ExtMC3.swf”);
};**
is there any better way of doing the same- it does work but the issue is, when the first MC (ExtMC1) is loading and click on the button 2 to load the second MC (ExtMC2) - it takes a lot of time… so i need an effective way of doing the same… please help.
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### Author:  [@abhikumar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/abhikumar)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-unload-flas-please-help/260083/2 "2008-05-12T14:52:08Z")
also, u can view this in action at [www.junkdesign.com](http://www.junkdesign.com) - this will give u better idea what im looking for.