# MC instances issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mc-instances-issue/215166>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 5, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mc-instances-issue/215166 "2007-02-05T03:24:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![absolutezero342](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@absolutezero342](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/absolutezero342)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mc-instances-issue/215166/1 "2007-02-05T03:24:21Z")

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Question:

Shouldn’t I be able to create one MC in my library and drag multiple instances of it onto Stage and edit each instance individually w/o affecting the other instances on Stage, each w/ unique instance names and other different MC’s inside it?

Everytime I try to do that, if I change one instance, it changes the other instance also, even though they have different instance names, but they share the same MC “parent” symbol in the library…how do I accomplish this?