# Preloading movie and external file not in sync

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-movie-and-external-file-not-in-sync/55947>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 29, 2004, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-movie-and-external-file-not-in-sync/55947 "2004-06-29T10:16:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Buck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Buck](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Buck)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2004, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-movie-and-external-file-not-in-sync/55947/1 "2004-06-29T10:16:26Z")

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Firstly let me say that I wanted to do a search on the forum but after several attempts I still get the same error message.

> Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted at (null):0 (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /home/virtual/site284/fst/var/www/html/forums/search.php on line 951

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted at (null):0 (tried to allocate 40 bytes) in Unknown on line 0

Anyway the problem I am having is this. I have a simple quiz in flash that reads the questions and answers array from an external text file. When I create a preloader for the movie, I notice that the preloader will not include the reading of the array in the text file. So I have to wait twice, one for the movie to load, another time for the questions to load - right after the preloading.

Is there a way to make the preloading include the loading of the text file?  
Am I making any sense here?

Any help or pointing me to the right direction will be most appreciated.

Thank you.