# Opening Files in Sandboxed App

**URL:** https://forum.legato.io/t/opening-files-in-sandboxed-app/5525
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [November 30, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://forum.legato.io/t/opening-files-in-sandboxed-app/5525 "2020-11-30T08:38:36Z")
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### Author: ![jyijyi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.legato.io/jyijyi/32/822_2.png) [@jyijyi](https://forum.legato.io/u/jyijyi)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.legato.io/t/opening-files-in-sandboxed-app/5525/2 "2020-11-30T08:43:38Z")

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you can have a look on this one:

> [@How to write data to a file outside sandbox](https://forum.legato.io/t/how-to-write-data-to-a-file-outside-sandbox/246/12):
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> Hi Alegato, Could you please elaborate your answer a bit more? I’ve tried to create file outside sandbox and give app access to it in adef file, but it still says that my file is read only

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