# Recovering a movieclip removed using unloadMovie()?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recovering-a-movieclip-removed-using-unloadmovie/222420>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 13, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recovering-a-movieclip-removed-using-unloadmovie/222420 "2007-04-13T09:37:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![iceblueflame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@iceblueflame](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/iceblueflame)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/recovering-a-movieclip-removed-using-unloadmovie/222420/1 "2007-04-13T09:37:35Z")

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I am trying to incorporate the facility to recover an object that has been deleted by the user. When he presses delete, i unload the movieclip. So if i want to recover it, complete with its last width, height, x and y positions, how do i do it?  
is there some inbuilt function? or do i have to use some programming to do it, like save the object properties before deleting and all? the object could be any one of about 5-6 of them in my library, so knowing at run time which one to attach is impossible. so i need something to recover exactly the movie clip that was unloaded. i dont think attaching a new one and setting its properties will work…

very simply, i could just set the \_visible to false when he presses delete, but then, thats not a very good practice i feel.

please help…