title: Access existing MongoDB collection from meteor app
body: <p>In my MongoDB, I have a collection that I created and populated from the server side, called "fs.files" (It's a gridFS collection). </p>
  
  <p>In my meteor app, is there a way to declare a global variable that simply can fetch me information from this database?</p>
  
  <p>I tried</p>
  
  <pre><code>PDFs = new Mongo.Collection("fs.files");
  
  PDFs = new FS.Collection("fs.files", {
      stores: [new FS.Store.FileSystem("fsfiles", {path: "./reports"})]
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Both of them would return an empty array when I do PDFs.find().fetch() </p>
  
  <p>The problem is, I do not want to create a new collection. I simply want to have access to an existing one since I do not create this database from client side. </p>