# Drag & Drop Folders impossible?

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/drag-drop-folders-impossible/13394>\
**Category:** Coding Questions\
**Created:** [August 15, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/drag-drop-folders-impossible/13394 "2019-08-15T09:58:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaotiklabs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2acd7d/32.png) [@kaotiklabs](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kaotiklabs)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/drag-drop-folders-impossible/13394/1 "2019-08-15T09:58:26Z")

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Hi,

I need to drop files or folders into my p5js canvas.  
I’m using cnv.drop() but it only allows for a single file or an array of files.  
How could I also drop folders?  
How are you doing it?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![jeremydouglass](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.processing.org/jeremydouglass/32/20_2.png) [@jeremydouglass](https://discourse.processing.org/u/jeremydouglass)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/drag-drop-folders-impossible/13394/2 "2019-08-16T23:48:45Z")

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I believe that folder dropping is still dangerous / not recommended, so many tools and libraries don’t support it. Among other reasons, that is because browsers implement it differently, and in HTML5 spec

> `readEntries` will not necessarily return **ALL** the (file or directory) entries for a given directory. This is part of the API specification

- See: [javascript - Does HTML5 allow drag-drop upload of folders or a folder tree? - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/a/53058574/7207622)