# Creating a flow to show data from CSV FILE

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**Created:** [6 September 2021 22:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/creating-a-flow-to-show-data-from-csv-file/50692 "2021-09-06T22:54:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gurjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2acd7d/32.png) [@Gurjas](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gurjas)\
**Post date:** [6 September 2021 22:54 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/creating-a-flow-to-show-data-from-csv-file/50692/1 "2021-09-06T22:54:22Z")

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**Author:** ![bakman2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/bakman2/32/6207_2.png) [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)\
**Post date:** [7 September 2021 04:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/creating-a-flow-to-show-data-from-csv-file/50692/2 "2021-09-07T04:41:45Z")

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Flow wants to read a local file, but node-red is running on a remote server.

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**Author:** ![Gurjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2acd7d/32.png) [@Gurjas](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Gurjas)\
**Post date:** [7 September 2021 08:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/creating-a-flow-to-show-data-from-csv-file/50692/3 "2021-09-07T08:24:07Z")

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please guide me what exactly I need to do.

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**Author:** ![PiMo131](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/pimo131/32/34978_2.png) [@PiMo131](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/PiMo131)\
**Post date:** [7 September 2021 20:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/creating-a-flow-to-show-data-from-csv-file/50692/4 "2021-09-07T20:36:15Z")

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Your node red instance is running on a server "[Fred.sensetecnic.de](http://Fred.sensetecnic.de)"

You are trying to write file to your local pc. This is not something the node-red can access.

Two options:

1. Write and read the file to a server location
2. Make a local install to get this to work

If the server is a windows machine i believe the official file node specifications say you need an absolute path to the file. However today i was suprised to learn this is not needed in my windows 10 environment.

You could try to leave the filepath out and just use a filename.

I usually take the .txt format i am not sure wether .csv is supported

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [8 September 2021 07:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/creating-a-flow-to-show-data-from-csv-file/50692/5 "2021-09-08T07:33:18Z")

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Or use option 1 to write it on the server and then download it to the local PC.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [8 October 2021 07:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/creating-a-flow-to-show-data-from-csv-file/50692/6 "2021-10-08T07:33:59Z")

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