# Search and select a file in the phone
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-and-select-a-file-in-the-phone/871569
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** beginner
**Created:** [October 3, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-and-select-a-file-in-the-phone/871569 "2020-10-03T16:50:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@gianf](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gianf)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2020, 4:50pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-and-select-a-file-in-the-phone/871569/1 "2020-10-03T16:50:36Z")
I would like to select a .csv file stored on my phone to process it. Is there a window/object/method to navigate through the files and choose the file that interests the user ?
I have been trying for a week.
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### Author:  [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-and-select-a-file-in-the-phone/871569/2 "2020-10-03T19:53:55Z")
You could use a free online converter to turn it into a pretty JSON text string. Copy that into a variable. Use it like any other api response.
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### Author:  [@gianf](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gianf)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2020, 9:34am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-and-select-a-file-in-the-phone/871569/3 "2020-10-04T09:34:46Z")
Thanks for your answer but my problem is that I have no data connection in many places where I use my phone. So I can only work locally. But I have the impression that I didn’t explain myself well: my problem is to find and select a file of any kind, for example a .txt file but now I need to find a .csv file. In Visual Basic I would use a window with the command Commondialog1.Showopen, in Thunkable I don’t know which command/object to use.
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/search-and-select-a-file-in-the-phone/871569/4 "2024-11-08T12:23:36Z")