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How/where can I see a list of my dbfs files?

dtabass
New Contributor III

When using the Community Edition, I'm trying to find a place in the UI where I can browse the files that I've uploaded to dbfs. How/where can I do that? When I try to view them from the Data sidebar I see nothing, yet I know they're there, as if I use a %fs cell and do an ls I can see them. (And I can read them into dataframes, etc.) Help? Thx! (BTW, it's kind of annoying IMO that they are silently versioned with -1, -2, etc. name changes. My wish would be for a "replace" option when uploading.)

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-werners-
Esteemed Contributor III

@Michael Carey​, The only UI I am aware of is the one in the sidebar (Data -> DBFS).

Where do you store your files? In FileStore?

dtabass
New Contributor III

Thanks! I'm in the community edition so I didn't realize that some things like that would be disabled but enable-able. Found it and enabled it.

BUT NOW - I am getting (for the last 24 hours or so, independent of having enabled this) the following persistent error. Suggestions? I get this when I click on the Data browser icon on the left pane which should now be enabled.

Screen Shot 2022-05-30 at 9.43.02 AM

dtabass
New Contributor III

UPDATE: Tried clearing browser history and cached stuff; no change. Tried restarting Chrome, bingo. It's working now and I can browse my data files. Thx!

SUGGESTION: Enable this by default for community edition users since we are always going to be the only user and an admin user. 🙂

dtabass
New Contributor III

FURTHER UPDATE: I am intermittently getting that persistent error - it's definitely a bug of some sort and I need to know how to make it disappear.

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