# Unload movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-movies/115894>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 12, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-movies/115894 "2004-07-12T21:00:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![lentil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@lentil](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lentil)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unload-movies/115894/1 "2004-07-12T21:00:21Z")

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I’m sure this must be very easy but I haven’t been able to sort it out!  
I simply want to unload a swf that I’ve loaded in a movieclip (I’m trying to unload it from another movieclip on same scene, same level).  
So first I load the movie on level 1, thinking that I could unload level 1 from any other place. But it didn’t work. (I can load but not unload)  
on (release) {  
unloadMovieNum(1);  
gotoAndPlay(50);  
}  
So then I’m loading the movie in an empty mc (container) but unload still not working.  
on (release) {  
unloadMovie("\_root.container");  
gotoAndPlay(50);  
}  
I’d believe it is the path wrong as I tried hiding it by using set property and didn’t work either. Any ideas? Many thanks.