topic Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition? in Data Engineering

Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

JuanSeValencia — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 04:08:31 GMT

Hello
I'm trying to use the Upload data to DBFS... from Databricks community edition but it's disabled. I'm also trying to activate it using the path Settings>Advanced>Other but the option is not longer in the list. Is this a temporary or permanent modification in the community edition?

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

szymon_dybczak — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 04:37:21 GMT

Hi @JuanSeValencia ,

Can confirm. I can't find it either.

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

Prasanth05 — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:15:29 GMT

Yes. I can confirm that I cannot see dbfs and cannot see option to enable dbfs file browser. Strange..

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

staniopolis — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 07:37:35 GMT

However, you can access it using dbutils.fs or %fs commands

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

DineshReddyN — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:28:31 GMT

I can't find it either.

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

staniopolis — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:42:17 GMT

Here you are:

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

Chikke — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:43:27 GMT

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

Chikke — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:45:45 GMT

But will it be possible to find the DBFS by this?.

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

llavanway — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:06:04 GMT

I am also having this problem as of today. I was able to upload to DBFS by clicking File --> Upload data to DBFS a few days ago. Now Uploaded data to DBFS is greyed out.

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

SJK — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 16:58:13 GMT

Same here, I found the files I had uploaded using the %fs ls <path> command, but I do not know how to upload more files. Nor are the toggle-able options available in community edition

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

BREN — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 05:06:59 GMT

Same Here.

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

Manikandan — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:08:41 GMT

I'm also having a same problem. is there any other way to add a files in DBFS?

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

adihc — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:17:14 GMT

Looking for answer on the above point only.

Question to the person who is showing the notebook way, if they can provide a documentation or link by which we can upload a file to there?

I know how to access the files over there, however not sure on the upload part

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

gchandra — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 13:49:46 GMT

The workaround will be to Mount the S3 bucket and use that as your source.

access_key = ""

secret_key = ""

encoded_secret_key = secret_key.replace("/", "%2F")

aws_bucket_name = "yourawsbucketname/"

mount_name = "youraliasmountname"

# #dbutils.fs.unmountf"/mnt/{mount_name}")

dbutils.fs.mount(f"s3a://{access_key}:{encoded_secret_key}@{aws_bucket_name}", f"/mnt/{mount_name}")

After mounting
goto next cell %fs ls /mnt/youraliasmountname

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

jhonCostaDev — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:59:55 GMT

Hi guys, I have the same problem but I found a solution. sorry about my english but i'll try to explain how to acess the files:

# First using the dbutils command to find a folder or file.

files = dbutils.fs.ls('/FileStore/')

# second copying from FileStore to folder into a cluster.

for file in files:

dbutils.fs.cp(file.path, f'file:/tmp/{file.name}')

it's done. Now you can acess the files.

files will be deleted after the cluster is shut down

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

gchandra — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:49:44 GMT

If AWS Bucket won't work try this option.

https://medium.com/@gchandra/databricks-how-to-load-data-from-google-drive-github-c98d6b34d1b5?sk=674feb56e50fc9f348108bcede0b4582

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

Prasanth05 — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 23:14:59 GMT

hi Chandra, thank you. Your Google drive option works. However it has to be supplemented with the below code

%py

dbutils.fs.cp("file:/tmp/sales_onemillion.bz2", "dbfs:/FileStore/tables/sales_onemillion.bz2")

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

gchandra — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:34:08 GMT

If it works, please accept as solution so it will help others.

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

Shanku_Niyogi — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:53:54 GMT

Hey folks - sorry, this was due to an erroneous rollout, it's back now. Sorry about the disruption. Thanks for continuing to use Community Edition!

Re: Was DBFS disabled from community edition?

NeedyFlame — Wed, 21 May 2025 23:59:07 GMT

Cant see it now. Is it a issue again?