Create table of all the names of files in the target folder on the desktop using ExtendScript?

I am trying to write a script that will watch a folder target on my computer and retrieve the paths for each of the files inside this folder and then store them in a table. This table will be then available later to add paths to the individual files in target comps. So far I have failed to find ways to achieve this, is it possible to say ExtendScript to create a table based on the contents of a finder folder?

Thank you!

Once you have the file, this will give you a table of all the files (and folders) in the folder:

myFiles var = myFolder.getFiles ();

Dan

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