Access data from a folder outside of "data"

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roymond

Access data from a folder outside of "data"

in Programming Questions • 2 years ago

This may be a Windows Vista issue, but I can't seem to figure out how to access a folder of files outside of the Sketch data folder.

This works:

inputFolder= "data";
File dataFolder = new File(sketchPath, inputFolder);
String[] fileList = dataFolder.list( );

But how do I refer to another folder other than "data"? Such as:
"/Users/myname/Desktop/folderOfFiles/"

I have tried all the various combinations of forward/backward/double/single slashes.

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PhiLho

Re: Access data from a folder outside of "data"

2 years ago

C:/Users/myname/Desktop/folderOfFiles/
The drive name is the hint for Processing that the path is absolute.

roymond

Re: Re: Access data from a folder outside of "data"

2 years ago

Yes, sorry for not mentioning that I have included the drive name in all versions attempted.

C:/Users/myname/Desktop/folderOfFiles/

is a valid folder and at the command prompt this works just fine: >cd C:/Users/myname/Desktop/folderOfFiles/

But in Processing it doesn't.

ramin

Re: Access data from a folder outside of "data"

2 years ago

i also use vista. this should work fine:

String inputFolder = "C:/Users/myname/Desktop/folderOfFiles/";
File dataFolder = new File(inputFolder);
String[] fileList = dataFolder.list( );
println(fileList);

PhiLho

Re: Access data from a folder outside of "data"

2 years ago

This works on my Win7 computer (on an admin account):

void setup()
{
String path = "C:/Users/philho/Links/";
File dataFolder = new File(path);
String[] fileList = dataFolder.list();
println(fileList);
}

roymond

Re: Access data from a folder outside of "data"

2 years ago

Thank you all. Very helpful! All is well :)

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