# Detecting whether a jpg images exists in a folder

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-whether-a-jpg-images-exists-in-a-folder/214306
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 27, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-whether-a-jpg-images-exists-in-a-folder/214306 "2007-01-27T06:33:43Z")
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### Author: ![Ayman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Ayman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ayman)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-whether-a-jpg-images-exists-in-a-folder/214306/1 "2007-01-27T06:33:43Z")

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A tricky question. You might simple say “download it using loadmovie or moviecliploader or whatever and see if you detect an onloaderror event”. But is there a way to just KNOW whether it exists or not, without downloading the file???