# Finding Home Directory?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finding-home-directory/260976>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 21, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finding-home-directory/260976 "2008-05-21T16:35:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ibanez271](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/94ad74/32.png) [@Ibanez271](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ibanez271)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finding-home-directory/260976/1 "2008-05-21T16:35:29Z")

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Is there way to find your home directory in windows using Actionscript 3.0? I want to find the directory and read a file from it, I do not need to write files and cannot use Air/Projected file.

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**Author:** ![Rezmason](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/rezmason/32/30447_2.png) [@Rezmason](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rezmason)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finding-home-directory/260976/2 "2008-05-21T17:39:12Z")

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Information like the home directory on a computer isn’t provided by Flash to your program; you’ll need to hard-code the directory’s path into your code. In the next Flash player, though, you may have some more flexibility.