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Asked: 2026-06-01T05:45:36+00:00

In my app I want users to be able to associate a file(s) they

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In my app I want users to be able to associate a file(s) they have on their desktop/DropBox with a specific item, but I don’t want/need them to be able to actually attach the file…I just want to get the file name and location and save that in my database. Then when I display the item I’ll hyperlink to the location captured. Can someone point me to an example(s) of how to accomplish this? I looked at the JQuery File Upload (http://blueimp.github.com/jQuery-File-Upload/) but as I mentioned don’t actually need to upload the file…so this should be something super easy.

Thanks for your time and assistance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can try and get value of file input, but you’ll fail.

    See this jsfiddle.

    All I’m getting is the fake path

    C:\fakepath\134.png

    And there’s certainly no C:\ drive on Mac OSX. 🙂

    I guess, this is because of security restrictions. You shouldn’t know (or care) about user’s filesystem in a web app.

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