topic Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path in Databricks Free Edition Help

Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

ViratKumar1061 — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 17:30:54 GMT

Hi Team,
I am using Databricks free edition to run some jobs on environment but I am getting error like : Public DBFS root is disabled. Access is denied on path: /FileStore/tables/
So how can i get access for this location, could anyone help me here.

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

nikhilj0421 — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 01:41:38 GMT

Hi @ViratKumar1061, I am not very familiar with the features provided in the Databricks free edition. But you can check settings -> Advanced -> DBFS File Browser

There will be a toggle to enable DBFS File Browser, check if it is disabled.

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

ViratKumar1061 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 18:03:04 GMT

Hi Nikhil,

I already checked in setting and there is no any toggle option to enable DBFS File broweser in databricks free edition, please help us on this we are stuck on this.

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

ViratKumar1061 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 19:07:51 GMT

Hi Nikhil,

I already checked in setting and there is no any toggle option to enable DBFS File broweser in databricks free edition, please help us on this we are stuck on this.

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

vidhey1707 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 15:46:14 GMT

Hi Virat, after the new Databricks update DBFS is deprecated when the community edition was changed to Free Edition few days, you can use Volume instead of filestore, try using this command for more understanding

%fs ls dbfs:/Volumes/workspace/default/
you can create a folder or external storage

%fs mkdirs /Volumes/workspace/default/<folder_name>/
and use this path for your operations

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

girinath — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 05:22:56 GMT

Hi vidhey, i tried this thing "%fs ls dbfs:/Volumes/" it shows

"The maximum number of retries has been exceeded"

error

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

vidhey1707 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:42:00 GMT

Try this after sometime, hopefully it should work

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

vinayvinu500 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:23:20 GMT

after sometime I have tried "%fs ls dbfs:/Volumes/"

I got below error

1 ExecutionError: (com.databricks.backend.daemon.data.common.InvalidMountException) Error while using path /Volumes for creating file system within mount at '/Volumes'.

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

felipevsr — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:01:13 GMT

Hello. You can create a volume in Databricks Free Edition to replace the dbfs. I had the same problem. I managed to create a volume.

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

felipediassouza — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:10:27 GMT

The same problem, I tried to load a file from these variations, and I'm receiving the same error:

csv_file_path = "/FileStore/data-co-uk/data/raw/1920_E0.csv"
OR
csv_file_path = "/Workspace/Repos/felipedi@gmail.com/data-co-uk/data/raw/1920_E0.csv"
OR
csv_file_path = "dbfs:/Workspace/Users/felipedi@gmail.com/data-co-uk/data/raw/1920_E0.csv"

and received it:
Public DBFS root is disabled. Access is denied on path: /FileStore/data-co-uk/data/raw/1920_E0.csv

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

BS_THE_ANALYST — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:21:18 GMT

Hi @ViratKumar1061, has your problem been resolved? If not, could you provide an update so we look at next steps for a solution.

All the best,
BS

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

jazz890 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:59:19 GMT

Hi,
Still i am getting the same error..

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

felipevsr — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:28:32 GMT

Hello.

The problem is that the /FileStore/tables/ path doesn't exist in Databricks Free Edition.

Even though the first part of the code indicates a DataFrame was created, it wasn't.

And when you try to save the data to the created Volume, you get an error.

I used the same path you did.

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

felipediassouza — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:22:06 GMT

My problem was resolved. I discovered that I was trying to access via Repos, but I changed to access via Catalog, and it worked well.

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

amey2220111 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 06:34:27 GMT

As with new free edition DBFS is disabled, you need to import your csv file to catalog "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOCQgoemQIo" refer this, then you can use this file path to access file and perform operations or .show()

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

Deuce — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:34:10 GMT

First create a table from the file and then read the table via workspace. This has worked for me.

Under Catalog, click the "+" button and then "Add Data" > "Create or modify data" > give the name of the table and upload the file.

Once done, use below command to access the table (orders_230714_200740)::

order_df = spark.read \
.format("csv") \

.option("header","true") \
.table("workspace.default.orders_230714_200740")

Re: Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

Sravanguthikond — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:47:21 GMT

DBFS is disabled in your Databricks workspace, that usually means you’re in a Unity Catalog–enabled environment. In UC-enabled workspaces, direct access to dbfs:/ is restricted.

Instead you must use external locations or volumes registered in Unity Catalog.