# Weird preloader issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-preloader-issue/79076>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 10, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-preloader-issue/79076 "2005-02-10T19:52:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jideha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jideha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jideha)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-preloader-issue/79076/1 "2005-02-10T19:52:41Z")

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Hey

I build a preloader, that basicly counts how many out of how many bytes are loaded from the external swf… The problem I’m running into is that when published on the web, it never gets the real size of the external swf…

Anyone encountered this before??

Basicly my main movie starts on frame 1 (doh)… On frame 5 the external movie is loaded and from frame 6 is the preloader in action…

Thanx