# Unloading AS2 swf from AS3 swf

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unloading-as2-swf-from-as3-swf/283919>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 12, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unloading-as2-swf-from-as3-swf/283919 "2009-03-12T15:04:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![blackcoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@blackcoma](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blackcoma)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/unloading-as2-swf-from-as3-swf/283919/1 "2009-03-12T15:04:57Z")

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I’ve loaded an SWF file into an AS3 project, thing is, I can’t unload it.  
Everytime I use loader.unload, The Flash IDE crashes!!!

I’ve tried to google the problem, but it seems no one seems to have an answer for it.

Please help:wasted: