# Preloading nightmare in IE 6 (external swfs)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-nightmare-in-ie-6-external-swfs/233463>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 24, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-nightmare-in-ie-6-external-swfs/233463 "2007-07-24T09:31:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preloading-nightmare-in-ie-6-external-swfs/233463/1 "2007-07-24T09:31:55Z")

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Just put together an online presentation with voice overs. The client requested complete control over the audio so I new it would be exported on the first frame of my movie.

To get round this I used the preloading component in Flash 8 to preload in external swf files of each part of the presentation - getting round the heavy first frame problem.

It works lovely on everything except Internet Explorer 6 on the PC. The loadbar doesn’t always work and doesn’t always disappear as it should. The errors seem quite random too - not always happening on the same sections of the presentation.

Thought I had cracked it by exporting the movies as Flash 7 swfs - but the client is still seeing problems despite clearing cache etc.

Anyone seen similar problems with IE 6 and Flash 8? Desperately need a fix.

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