# Choose a file interactively

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/choose-a-file-interactively/10910>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 15, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/choose-a-file-interactively/10910 "2018-05-15T14:08:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jordan\_Cluts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jordan_cluts/32/13753_2.png) [@Jordan\_Cluts](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jordan_Cluts)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/choose-a-file-interactively/10910/4 "2018-05-15T14:49:36Z")

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I had a similar desire and ended up writing a little solution that I had a question about [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/qml-filedialog/10125). I wanted something that used the native system dialog and that little code snippet has served me very well.

\*edit: To be clear I did very little of the writing for this snippet. It’s based off the file dialog example in QML.jl. I just tweaked it a bit and converted it to one self-contained solution (code wise atleast, QML.jl obviously needs to be installed).

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