Shared Shared Objects

Alright this might be a realy stupid question but i have done very little work with shared objects so i dont know. Is it possible to acces a shared object from a different swf than it was created from? Basically what i have is a tile based game and i want to create a level editor for it so i just need to one swf to save an array then the other one to load it. I’ve been playing around with it a bit and i cant get it to work so i thought i’d ask here so if its not possible, i dont waste any more time.