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Exporting to Asset Error

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November 29, 2021
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I work on the motion for the web and export it to the asset, and a few tasks continue to say, "You cannot place a symbol inside itself." How should I solve this?

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Correct answer Colin Holgate

Imagine if you could put your fridge into your fridge. The inner fridge would now have its own inner fridge, that also would have an inner fridge. There would be an infinity number of fridges.

Animate doesn't let you put a copy of a symbol into an instance of that symbol, because you would immediately have an infinite number of that symbol.

If you had a need where one original symbol needed to have one object inside it in one case, and a different object in another case, you could select one of the symbols on the stage and do a Break Apart, then select the parts that are now broken apart, and make a new symbol from them. That new symbol could have different contents than the original symbol.

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jeighedwa

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This answer seems far too complex to be useful for many people, as you yourself said you didn't know how it was solved. I myself didn't follow it and was having the same problem. I suspected that I was in some sort of edit mode for the object. This was in fact the case, and you can ~~edit~~ exit the edit mode for the object by double clicking on the stage.

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jeighedwa

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"exit the edit mode" it should have said, I see no way of editing my post. Seems appropriate, Adobe has a way of not letting you do the simplest of things.

kglad

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Colin Holgate

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Make sure that every symbol in the Library has a unique name. It may be that you have a symbol inside a Library folder, that has the same name as another symbol in a different folder.

Also, if you are inside a symbol on the timeline, you can't drag that symbol to the stage, as it would place the symbol iside of itself.

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LimpaAuthor

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" if you are inside a symbol on the timeline, you can't drag that symbol to the stage, as it would place the symbol iside of itself."

I don't really understand this. Can you explain it in an easier way to understand?

and, I checked all the names in the library, but there was no problem.

Colin HolgateCorrect answer

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Imagine if you could put your fridge into your fridge. The inner fridge would now have its own inner fridge, that also would have an inner fridge. There would be an infinity number of fridges.

Animate doesn't let you put a copy of a symbol into an instance of that symbol, because you would immediately have an infinite number of that symbol.

If you had a need where one original symbol needed to have one object inside it in one case, and a different object in another case, you could select one of the symbols on the stage and do a Break Apart, then select the parts that are now broken apart, and make a new symbol from them. That new symbol could have different contents than the original symbol.

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