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Hi Im trying to get the starter tutorial

Hi, Im trying to get the starter tutorial to work but I just keep getting:
ValueError: Directory data does not exist.
From the first line after the import: documents = SimpleDirectoryReader("data").load_data()
I have my .py in the paul_graham_essay folder

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eelmatero

I think you have to have you .py that has the code in the same folder of your data folder. If the name of your data folder is paul_graham_essay, change your code to:
documents = SimpleDirectoryReader("paul_graham_essay").load_data()

CCawdeen

Hmm ok, tried that. Still no luck

SSeldo

If it's in the same directory I think you'll need to specify the file, like

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reader = SimpleDirectoryReader(
    input_files=["./paul_graham_essay.txt"]
)

CCawdeen

Oh got it. I had the entire repository open, and needed to put the full path from there, even though my .py was further down

CCawdeen

I think it was the way I opened the example repo in vs code

SSeldo

Cool

CCawdeen

Thanks for the assistance

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