# Read csv files slow

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/read-csv-files-slow/43803
**Category:** Performance
**Tags:** filesystem
**Created:** [July 28, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/read-csv-files-slow/43803 "2020-07-28T07:38:19Z")
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### Author: ![laborg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/laborg/32/5474_2.png) [@laborg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/laborg)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2020, 9:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/read-csv-files-slow/43803/4 "2020-07-28T09:26:06Z")

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You need to broadcast the vector of files. Try this (untested) code instead:

```julia
fileDirectory="d:/Data/Test/"
using Glob
files=glob("*.txt", fileDirectory) 
df3=DataFrame.(CSV.File.(files))

```

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