# Problem Duplicating MovieClip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-duplicating-movieclip/136145>\
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**Created:** [February 2, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-duplicating-movieclip/136145 "2005-02-02T17:38:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![0252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/0/f04885/32.png) [@0252](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/0252)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-duplicating-movieclip/136145/1 "2005-02-02T17:38:17Z")

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Hi, Im hoping someone can help me, I want to duplicate a MC from within a MC. When I do it on my main timeline it works fine but when i place the code inside a MC it doesnt work. Im nearly sure that it’s a path problem but I can’t figure it out. I’ve attached the file.

This is the line that’s causing me the problems:

> duplicateMovieClip(\_root.B2, “boxes”+i, 0);

Any help or suggestions would be great, thanks.