Suddenly can't find the option to uplaod files into Databricks Community Edition

[Younevano]

Hi everyone,

I am suddenly unable to find the option to upload my files into Databricks Community Edition today. Please find the same in the screenshot attached. Is anyone else also facing this issue?

[Vamsi_B]

I was about to post the same question, for some reason we are not able to find the dbfs toggle option in settings either!

[Alexisqc92]

I'm facing the same issue, were you able to find a solution for this? or a work around?

[gchandra]

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

[gchandra]

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

[nynaevealmeera]

What about the IAM config and all that? Is the dbfs file upload permanently disabled for the community edition?

[thorffin]

Anyone found any solution please post here

[mahdi]

Perfect time for this to happen -- right in the middle of a class assignment due in a few days. 🙂 
The easiest way to do it is by using dbutils.fs.mv to mv the file from the local system to the dbfs. Here is a complete example:

## create file in the local fs
with open("./test_file.txt", "w") as file:
lines = "\n".join(map(str, range(5)))
file.write(lines)

!cat test_file.txt
>> 0 1 2 3 4

#mv file from local fs to dbf
dbutils.fs.mv("file:/databricks/driver/test_file.txt", "dbfs:/test_file.txt")
>> Out[10]: True

# Read the file as an RDD
file_path = "dbfs:/test_file.txt"
rdd = sc.textFile(file_path)
rdd.collect()
>> Out[11]: ['0', '1', '2', '3', '4']