How do i go on making a copy of a symbol without affecting the instance?

Hello everybody, I have a symbol that I have already used and I would like to use the same symbol in another frame(s), except that when i edit the symbol the original object also edits, for example if i delete a part of it, it also deletes in the object that I have already placed, I have tried the 'duplicate symbol' method but nonetheless my symbol still gets modified and changes the way I want it to show it in certain frames. Any help will be appreciated.

If you have a symbol with some inner symbols(Movieclip), then it should also duplicate. for that, copy the symbol and paste it in a new file and rename everything in the library. After rename everything, copy and paste the symbol from the new file to your file. Thats it!

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