# Loading banks from GUID
**URL:** https://qa.fmod.com/t/loading-banks-from-guid/21698
**Category:** FMOD Engine
**Created:** [June 4, 2024, 11:53am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/loading-banks-from-guid/21698 "2024-06-04T11:53:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@maximegau](https://qa.fmod.com/u/maximegau)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2024, 11:53am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/loading-banks-from-guid/21698/1 "2024-06-04T11:53:30Z")
Correct me if I am wrong but I dont see how to load banks without using path name. I would like to be able to use the GUIDs generated by the FMOD script. (I am already using that for events).
Sorry if this has been addressed but I can’t seem to find the answer to that question.
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### Author:  [@Leah\_FMOD](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Leah_FMOD)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/loading-banks-from-guid/21698/2 "2024-06-05T02:23:23Z")
It’s not possible to load a bank by its GUID. This is because fundamentally, a bank needs to be loaded from [file](https://www.fmod.com/docs/2.02/api/studio-api-system.html#studio_system_loadbankfile) or [memory](https://www.fmod.com/docs/2.02/api/studio-api-system.html#studio_system_loadbankmemory) - a GUID itself is not enough information for FMOD to know the location of bank data. A bank’s GUID primarily exists to identify the bank when it’s already loaded, for example when using [Studio::System::getBankByID](https://www.fmod.com/docs/2.02/api/studio-api-system.html#studio_system_getbankbyid).
If you want to use a GUID to load a bank, it would require you to use your own code to associate the bank’s GUID and filesystem location and essentially abstract the existing bank load functions using that association.
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### Author:  [@maximegau](https://qa.fmod.com/u/maximegau)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2024, 8:44am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/loading-banks-from-guid/21698/3 "2024-06-06T08:44:19Z")
Ah alright that makes sense thanks