# What is best practice to get files with jpg as file extension
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-best-practice-to-get-files-with-jpg-as-file-extension/45526
**Category:** General
**Created:** [12 May 2021 06:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-best-practice-to-get-files-with-jpg-as-file-extension/45526 "2021-05-12T06:03:00Z")
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### Author:  [@tpbillund](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/tpbillund)
#### Post date: [12 May 2021 06:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-best-practice-to-get-files-with-jpg-as-file-extension/45526/1 "2021-05-12T06:03:00Z")
Hi
atm. im using the watch node on a folder, it shows what is happening in the folder, both when I correct, create and delete files.
What I want is to just look at which files are being created and they should only be .jpg files.
So my first question is:
- How can I get a hit, about which files are created, I have no interest in what is deleted or changed.
Next:
- To get only one hit on .jpg files, is it so best to use a switch node where I find out to look at my payload around \* .jpg and so that way get my hits sent on .jpg files?
Or is it a better / second option?
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [12 May 2021 10:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-best-practice-to-get-files-with-jpg-as-file-extension/45526/2 "2021-05-12T10:43:24Z")
Why not use a `switch` node after the `watch` Node using the ‘contains’ option and jpeg as the value. So in English it would be “if msg.payload contains ‘jpeg’’
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### Author:  [@tpbillund](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/tpbillund)
#### Post date: [12 May 2021 13:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-best-practice-to-get-files-with-jpg-as-file-extension/45526/3 "2021-05-12T13:25:57Z")
okay as I wrote, but using the "contains" 🙂 Thx.
What about the question about created files, atm. it will "hit me" if I delete, modify or create a new JPG file, and I need it only to work if created.
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [12 May 2021 16:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-best-practice-to-get-files-with-jpg-as-file-extension/45526/4 "2021-05-12T16:40:32Z")
The node can't possibly tell what has changed. What you could try is use node-red-contrib-fs to read the directory and store that information. Then when the `watch` node triggers you could use the `fs-file-lister` to get the info for that file and compare if against the saved information and determine what has happened to the file.
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### Author:  [@tpbillund](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/tpbillund)
#### Post date: [13 May 2021 05:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-best-practice-to-get-files-with-jpg-as-file-extension/45526/5 "2021-05-13T05:15:55Z")
Hi
I used the "Watch-directory" from node-red-contrib-watchdirectory.
And it works well, as wanted.
Thx.
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [13 May 2021 07:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-best-practice-to-get-files-with-jpg-as-file-extension/45526/6 "2021-05-13T07:44:43Z")
Nice, I hadn’t seen that node before. Nice find!
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [13 May 2021 08:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-best-practice-to-get-files-with-jpg-as-file-extension/45526/7 "2021-05-13T08:20:10Z")
Indeed - would make a good update to the core node.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [27 May 2021 08:20 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/what-is-best-practice-to-get-files-with-jpg-as-file-extension/45526/8 "2021-05-27T08:20:44Z")
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