# Preloading images + caching them?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-images-caching-them/183041>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 23, 2006, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-images-caching-them/183041 "2006-03-23T10:09:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rasper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@Rasper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rasper)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-images-caching-them/183041/1 "2006-03-23T10:09:32Z")

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Hi

I’m working on an image viewer which is now almost completed. I have some thumbnails that are loaded in the beginning, and the image itself is loaded upon selection of a thumbnail. Now, I would like to extend my viewer by preloading all the images in the beginning.

At the moment I load every image into one mc\_holder MovieClip. But this poses the problem that I can’t preload all the images inside that movieclip (without showing them yet), because I animate this movieclip.

What I would like to know is if I load the images once behind the scences in another invisible movieclip, will this mean that all the images will be loaded from the temporary internet files map when I click on a thumbnail? Or will Flash reload the images from the server?

Thanks for reading and your time.