# If there a "File" component? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Created:** [February 14, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/if-there-a-file-component/463855 "2020-02-14T05:10:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bmraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@bmraj](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bmraj)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/if-there-a-file-component/463855/1 "2020-02-14T05:10:06Z")
I am coming from the MIT App Inventor background and planning to use Thunkable from now as I need to develop for iOS as well. I want to use the File component under Storage before. In Thunkable I am not seeing that component. I want to read data from a file. Pl help me if I miss something… Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 4:09pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/if-there-a-file-component/463855/2 "2020-02-24T16:09:33Z")
Hi @bmraj and welcome to Thunkable! đź‘‹ At the moment that only local files you can access on the device are through the [photo library](https://docs.thunkable.com/photo-library) component and you can also retrieve cloud-based resources with the [MediaDB component.](https://docs.thunkable.com/media-db) Can you tell us a little more about the app that you are trying to build? ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/if-there-a-file-component/463855/3 "2024-11-08T11:40:50Z")