# File or folder selection dialog

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/file-or-folder-selection-dialog/44420>\
**Category:** Dash Python\
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/file-or-folder-selection-dialog/44420 "2020-09-01T14:54:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![luuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@luuk](https://community.plotly.com/u/luuk)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 11:19am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/file-or-folder-selection-dialog/44420/5 "2025-01-14T11:19:24Z")

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The best I could do was making an improvement to the FileTree class: [File Explorer Tree Generator for local files - #7 by luuk](https://community.plotly.com/t/file-explorer-tree-generator-for-local-files/68732/7)

This way, the user experience could be ‘okay’ in thet limits of the folder set by INITIAL\_FOLDER.

I did not like to use the file dialogs by QT or TKinter, as it was slow (perhaps because of escaping the main thread).

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