# AS3 FileReference - Browse Directories?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-filereference-browse-directories/263985>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 21, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-filereference-browse-directories/263985 "2008-06-21T14:20:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![nickcherryjiggz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/nickcherryjiggz/32/2107_2.png) [@nickcherryjiggz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nickcherryjiggz)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-filereference-browse-directories/263985/1 "2008-06-21T14:20:20Z")

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Is there any way to allow the user to browse through the directories on his/her machine and select a folder, rather than a file?

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Payne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6bbea6/32.png) [@Robert\_Payne](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Robert_Payne)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-filereference-browse-directories/263985/2 "2008-06-21T20:45:19Z")

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> [@nickcherryjiggz;2346789](#):
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> Is there any way to allow the user to browse through the directories on his/her machine and select a folder, rather than a file?

Nope for security reasons it never will either. If you need this functionality the only posibility is the flash.filesystem package with Adobe AIR or other 3rd party flash wrappers.

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**Author:** ![nickcherryjiggz](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/nickcherryjiggz/32/2107_2.png) [@nickcherryjiggz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nickcherryjiggz)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-filereference-browse-directories/263985/3 "2008-06-23T11:59:59Z")

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I forgot to mention that I am building the applicaiton in AIR - how convenient! And thank you, it worked beautifully. 8^)