# Extracting folder names from database
**URL:** https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/extracting-folder-names-from-database/10893
**Category:** Automation
**Created:** [November 12, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/extracting-folder-names-from-database/10893 "2010-11-12T16:27:35Z")
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### Author:  [@elbe05](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/elbe05)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/extracting-folder-names-from-database/10893/1 "2010-11-12T16:27:35Z")
Someone knows how to extract all of the folder names in a given path of a DTPO database? For example Database “Stuff” as a group “Months” containing 12 subgroups (1 for each month) and so on. I would like to be able to extract the names from the path in order to be able to set dates to create an iCal event.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@cgrunenberg](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/cgrunenberg)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/extracting-folder-names-from-database/10893/2 "2010-11-23T16:11:57Z")
Here’s a simple example:
```auto
tell application "DEVONthink Pro"
name of children of (parent named "Months" in database named "Stuff") whose type is group
end tell
```
Just replace the name of the group and database.
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### Author:  [@elbe05](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/elbe05)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/extracting-folder-names-from-database/10893/3 "2011-02-22T00:11:39Z")
Thanks Christian,
This got me started in setting up my digital tickler file system and produce a script to link to ical/BusyCal (as described in the Blog section!).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2022, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/extracting-folder-names-from-database/10893/4 "2022-01-21T11:10:28Z")