# Getting full paths of fastq files for QIIME2 Manifest files in Galaxy

**URL:** <https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/getting-full-paths-of-fastq-files-for-qiime2-manifest-files-in-galaxy/13841>\
**Category:** usegalaxy.eu support\
**Tags:** qiime2\
**Created:** [November 6, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/getting-full-paths-of-fastq-files-for-qiime2-manifest-files-in-galaxy/13841 "2024-11-06T12:18:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![S\_Harini\_N\_Pillai](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/help.galaxyproject.org/s_harini_n_pillai/32/6312_2.png) [@S\_Harini\_N\_Pillai](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/S_Harini_N_Pillai)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 12:18pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/getting-full-paths-of-fastq-files-for-qiime2-manifest-files-in-galaxy/13841/1 "2024-11-06T12:18:30Z")

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I’m new to Galaxy and I’m using the Galaxy project in web and I have downloaded the fastq files from NCBI. I want to import these files for QIIME2 analysis and I have to write their full paths in Galaxy to import. Currently, I look at each individual fastq file for their path and copy it. Is there a way to find the path of all files easily

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**Author:** ![jennaj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/help.galaxyproject.org/jennaj/32/27_2.png) [@jennaj](https://help.galaxyproject.org/u/jennaj)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/getting-full-paths-of-fastq-files-for-qiime2-manifest-files-in-galaxy/13841/2 "2024-11-06T21:13:36Z")

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Welcome, @S_Harini_N_Pillai

We had another recent question about the Qiime2 data loading tool that creates the initial artifact, please see the instructions I wrote up there → [Cannot get QIIME2 artifact to work](https://help.galaxyproject.org/t/cannot-get-qiime2-artifact-to-work/13729)

The important parts are how the files are _named_. You can adjust that before loading the data to Galaxy, or after it is loaded into Galaxy. Then create a paired-end collection (if that is the type of data your have).

Hope this helps! 🙂