# How to check if a file is exist in data folder by code?

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**Created:** [June 1, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-check-if-a-file-is-exist-in-data-folder-by-code/589 "2018-06-01T04:03:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 6:45am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-check-if-a-file-is-exist-in-data-folder-by-code/589/7 "2018-06-01T06:45:51Z")

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> [@newton45](#):
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> Or is there any function to get current processing data folder’s path?

Yes! Just pass an empty string `""` to **dataPath()**:

```auto
dataFolderPath = this.dataPath('') + '/'
print dataFolderPath

```

… or to **dataFile()**:

```auto
dir = this.dataFile('')
dataFolderPath = dir.path + '/'
print dataFolderPath

```

However, if you need all files within the sketch’s “data/” folder, like all images for example, you can use **listPaths()**, passing the “data/” folder path + a string w/ all desired “extensions=,”: 🕶

```auto
PICS_EXTS = 'extensions=,png,jpg,jpeg,gif,tif,tiff,tga,bmp,wbmp'

dir = this.dataFile('')
imagePaths, imagesFound = (), 0

if dir.isDirectory():
    imagePaths = this.listPaths(dir.path, PICS_EXTS)
    imagesFound = len(imagePaths)

printArray(imagePaths)
print 'Found %d image(s)' % imagesFound

```

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