# Creating a FileBrowser like Explorer?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-filebrowser-like-explorer/174978>\
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**Created:** [January 10, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-filebrowser-like-explorer/174978 "2006-01-10T19:50:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Low\_Lines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@Low\_Lines](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Low_Lines)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2006, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-a-filebrowser-like-explorer/174978/1 "2006-01-10T19:50:11Z")

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Now this may sound pretty far fetched, but I want to ask. Is it possible to create a **FileBrowser**?? I know a fair bit of Flash, enough in fact to create a working menu system (ie Listview), but I was just wondering if there was some way to _ **find** _ and _ **study** _ files in a selected folder. Is it possible to obtain information like **“Filename”, “FileSize”, “FileType”** without actually loading files into Flash??

I’m pretty sure there is no actionscript for this, but is there maybe PHP or JAVA or something else?? I have very little knowledge in those other areas so I would not know.

Does anyone think that can help me??:puzzled:

My prefered Flash version would be MX 2004, but I do have access to Flash 8.