# 6. Creation of Folders for seprating files and storing it according to extension

**URL:** <https://community.automationedge.com/t/6-creation-of-folders-for-seprating-files-and-storing-it-according-to-extension/6262>\
**Category:** Process Studio\
**Created:** [September 11, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/6-creation-of-folders-for-seprating-files-and-storing-it-according-to-extension/6262 "2022-09-11T14:29:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![ManishPatil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@ManishPatil](https://community.automationedge.com/u/ManishPatil)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/6-creation-of-folders-for-seprating-files-and-storing-it-according-to-extension/6262/1 "2022-09-11T14:29:30Z")

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Read all files from Input folder , it may contain .xls,.xlsx,.csv files. Create separate folder for each extension and give name to folder as File\_extension

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**Author:** ![KalyaniW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@KalyaniW](https://community.automationedge.com/u/KalyaniW)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 8:38am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/6-creation-of-folders-for-seprating-files-and-storing-it-according-to-extension/6262/2 "2022-10-06T08:38:54Z")

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Hello @ManishPatil,

For your use case you can use the following steps:-  
1]Reading the files in Input Folder → Get Filenames plugin step.  
2]Creating separate Folders for each extension → Create Folder step.(Take a note that you’ll find this in Processes under File Management Category)