# File management from within Shaper3D
**URL:** https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/file-management-from-within-shaper3d/10184
**Category:** Modeling Questions
**Created:** [December 9, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/file-management-from-within-shaper3d/10184 "2020-12-09T06:11:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Johnmartin](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Johnmartin)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/file-management-from-within-shaper3d/10184/1 "2020-12-09T06:11:31Z")
Having used Shapr3D now for over a year I have accrued and saved ( in the Files App) hundreds of drawings in .shapr file formats in various folders.
Many are sequential updates of drawings with descriptive names but I don’t know without viewing them as to what a lot of them are or which ones I can delete or will want to keep.
Ideally I’d like to be able to view the drawing in them as an image directly out of the Files folder page so I can work through which ones I can discard and which ones I need to keep.
Loading them into Shapr in the normal workspace is long and slow involving a lot more steps. Also there is no label showing file name while in Shapr3D so easy to open a drawing and then forget which one it is.
Firstly Is there a way I can just view the files and manage them directly? is there an app that can view .shapr files?
Can I open files in Shapr then delete them from the Files app folder directly?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@david.r](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/david.r)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/file-management-from-within-shaper3d/10184/2 "2020-12-10T13:09:15Z")
Good morning to all!
As Johnmartin comments, it would be good to implement a file manager within Sharp3D where you can see its content as well as be able to see the date of creation and / or modification. It would also be nice to be able to visualize the content in 3D as does the external application of Fusion360 where you can see the content.
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### Author:  [@david.r](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/david.r)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/file-management-from-within-shaper3d/10184/3 "2020-12-10T15:23:26Z")
with your permission, I have taken the liberty of designing the external file manager logo for your magnificent app! 😉 as well as update your original so that there is a connection between both.
I hope you like it!
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### Author:  [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/file-management-from-within-shaper3d/10184/4 "2020-12-10T15:41:02Z")
Oh no. Sharp ☹
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### Author:  [@Istvan](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Istvan)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/file-management-from-within-shaper3d/10184/5 "2020-12-10T15:41:36Z")
This is something that we’ve been planning for a while but couldn’t really fit it to our roadmap yet.
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### Author:  [@david.r](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/david.r)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/file-management-from-within-shaper3d/10184/6 "2020-12-10T15:49:23Z")
luckily the sharpiana community are patient! 😌
best regards
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### Author:  [@Do.B](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Do.B)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 2:23am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/file-management-from-within-shaper3d/10184/7 "2022-07-12T02:23:03Z")
Maybe sometime in 2023 ? 🙄