# Asking about data-in

**URL:** <https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/asking-about-data-in/1574>\
**Category:** CloverDX Platform\
**Created:** [February 6, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/asking-about-data-in/1574 "2015-02-06T00:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![mundere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@mundere](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/mundere)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/asking-about-data-in/1574/1 "2015-02-06T00:00:00Z")

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Hello, I am a little bit a beginner intersted in Clover, does every file in data-in need to be in .csv format?

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**Author:** ![David\_Hlidek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@David\_Hlidek](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/David_Hlidek)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/asking-about-data-in/1574/2 "2015-02-06T16:20:39Z")

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Hi,

No, you may put any kind of input data into that folder. Semantic of data-in folder is: files used as inputs for processing.

I hope this helps.