# Pre Loader starting at 50%

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pre-loader-starting-at-50/5145>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 2, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pre-loader-starting-at-50/5145 "2002-09-02T23:29:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Movado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@Movado](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Movado)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pre-loader-starting-at-50/5145/1 "2002-09-02T23:29:18Z")

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I have looked around at the pre loader threads and have seen other people have had the problem of the preloader starting to display at 50% or more. I don’t get this problem my swf is 300 kb  
I have an empty frame open on the main timeline which is empty on all layers for frame 1 then 2 more frames with content. Yet when I look at the band width profiler it clames that there is on frame 1 128 kb of content which there is not. So when I place the preloader on frame 1 of the main time line it works fine except it does not start displaying until 50% has been reached. Also when I look at the output which I had placed a trace it stops qickly at 100% then when it gets to 50% it also starts to display 50,52,52 Etc. when it reaches 100 percent the movie is loade and all is fine.  
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am new to action scripting so There is alot I do not quite grasp yet. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pre-loader-starting-at-50/5145/2 "2002-09-03T03:42:42Z")

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ok I have figured out that the library takes up frame 0 it seem so flash will load the library firs it seems becuase when I remove the library Items I see that first frame1 go down in size which realy is being called frame 0. This is confusing bit I guess the ONLY way is to take all you movieclips and load them in as swfs rather than keeping them in the library but this seems a bit much so I am still unsure of what to make of it.