Public dbfs root is disabled ,Access is denied on path

[ViratKumar1061]

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. 

[nikhilj0421]

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. 

[ViratKumar1061]

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.

[ViratKumar1061]

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.

[vidhey1707]

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

[data_bricks3]

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

"The maximum number of retries has been exceeded"

error

[vidhey1707]

Try this after sometime, hopefully it should work

[vinayvinu500]

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'.

[felipevsr]

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.

[jazz890]

Hi,
Still i am getting the same error..

[felipevsr]

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.

[felipediassouza]

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

[BS_THE_ANALYST]

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

[felipediassouza]

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.

[amey2220111]

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()