# Preloading external swfs to emptyMovieClip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-swfs-to-emptymovieclip/82012>\
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**Created:** [March 7, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-swfs-to-emptymovieclip/82012 "2005-03-07T01:15:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![jpearson311](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jpearson311](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jpearson311)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-external-swfs-to-emptymovieclip/82012/1 "2005-03-07T01:15:38Z")

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Have any of you out there ever successfully preloaded external swfs to an empty movie clip on the main? If so, I would love your success stories. I’m about to go nutz over this.

Basically, I have one main navigation bar with 5 buttons. Each of them are going to load an external swf into an emptyMovieClip on the main timeline. I have everything built, but when I test it, the preloader just freezes and hangs.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Jesse