# Loading text from loadMovie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-from-loadmovie/189693>\
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**Created:** [June 5, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-from-loadmovie/189693 "2006-06-05T12:07:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![animatedken](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/animatedken/32/2466_2.png) [@animatedken](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/animatedken)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/loading-text-from-loadmovie/189693/1 "2006-06-05T12:07:56Z")

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Hi!

I saw this [kirupa tutorial on how to load text](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/multiple_dynamictext.htm). The final SWF, called finished.swf, works perfectly alone. finshed.swf loads the text file using:

```auto
loadText.load("text1.txt");

```

I’d like to **use loadMovie.swf to call finished.swf** , but loadMovie is in a parent directory, while finished.swf and the three text files that come with it are all under a subdirectory.

When loadMovie.swf calls finished.swf, it **cannot find the text files** because it’s looking for them in the parent directory.

I could just set the load() code in finsihed.fla to specify the subfolder folder.

```auto
loadText.load("subdirectory/text1.txt");

```

If I do that, loadMovie.swf will now work but finished.swf won’t work alone anymore.

In other words, I’d like **the text files to be loaded whether they are called from finished.swf or from loadMovie.swf** which resides in a parent directory.

I attached the files and the directory structure. Thanks for looking and if you can enlighten me, thank you very much! 🍺