# IA Demo opening files in Document Storage

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ia-demo-opening-files-in-document-storage/11034>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 13, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ia-demo-opening-files-in-document-storage/11034 "2016-01-13T03:12:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![rmdalisay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@rmdalisay](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rmdalisay)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ia-demo-opening-files-in-document-storage/11034/1 "2016-01-13T03:12:11Z")

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Good day!  
I am currently exploring the Ignition demo project for tutorial. I have come across Document Storage. whenever I try to open a file, an error shows:

Illegal character in authority at index 7:  
[file://C](file://C):\Users\KCP\_RND\Desktop\New Folder\Clarifications.docx

I have looked into the project in Ignition Designer and the script:  
system.net.openURL(“file//” + path)  
is the script in opening a file.

However, the value of the path is C:\Users\KCP\_RND\Desktop\New Folder\Clarifications.docx  
wherein \ are used instead of /.

What I did to confirm if it was the problem, was changed the script into  
system.net.openURL(“file://C:/Users/KCP\_RND/Desktop/New Folder/Clarifications.docx”)  
and it worked.

Is there a way for me to change the \ to / in the path? Or do you have any suggestions on how I could address this?

Thank you very much and more power to your team.

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**Author:** ![Duffanator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/duffanator/32/3560_2.png) [@Duffanator](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Duffanator)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ia-demo-opening-files-in-document-storage/11034/2 "2016-01-13T20:19:35Z")

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Check out this post: [https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=51745#p51745](https://inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=51745#p51745)

That should answer your question.

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**Author:** ![rmdalisay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@rmdalisay](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rmdalisay)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ia-demo-opening-files-in-document-storage/11034/3 "2016-01-13T23:42:13Z")

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Thank you very much!  
It solved the issue.