# Capturing full-path of a file to be browsed:

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-full-path-of-a-file-to-be-browsed/282073>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 17, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-full-path-of-a-file-to-be-browsed/282073 "2009-02-17T10:08:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![SrihariCh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@SrihariCh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SrihariCh)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/capturing-full-path-of-a-file-to-be-browsed/282073/1 "2009-02-17T10:08:19Z")

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Hi all,

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 I am new to ActionScript 3.0 and flash.

 I need to create browse for files pop-up, when a "browse_btn" button is clicked. I got it upto this point. But, if I select the file from Browse window, only the (outer) **"file-name"** to be browsed is displayed in the text-box instead of **"the whole path of the file"**.

Please, help me in finding the "full-path of the file" instead of the "only file-name" in my issue...

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Thanx a lot…

Srihari.Ch