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Hi — while working with this dataset through lerobot (v3.0 dataset format, lerobot 0.5.2) I found that the per-episode file-location metadata in meta/episodes is inconsistent with where episode rows actually live in data/.

Reproduction:

import pandas as pd
from lerobot.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset

ds = LeRobotDataset("HuggingFaceVLA/libero")
ep = 807  # first episode of the libero_object suite; many episodes are affected

row = ds.meta.episodes[ep]
print(row["data/chunk_index"], row["data/file_index"])
# -> chunk 0, file 37

df = pd.read_parquet(ds.root / "data/chunk-000/file-037.parquet", columns=["episode_index"])
print(sorted(set(df["episode_index"])))
# -> [90, 91, 92]  — episode 807 is not in the file its metadata points to

# scanning data/ for episode 807's rows finds them in file-211 instead

What is still consistent: the global dataset_from_index / dataset_to_index values in meta/episodes are correct (frame windows line up with the concatenated data parquets, and the video pathway matches — I verified frames visually against task strings). So ordinary training/loading through LeRobotDataset works fine.

What breaks: anything that trusts the per-episode file pointers. lerobot's get_data_file_path() returns the wrong file, and dataset_tools.delete_episodes() crashes (KeyError in _copy_and_reindex_episodes_metadata) — and could silently corrupt output on datasets where the mismatch doesn't happen to crash. Episode-editing workflows on this dataset are effectively unusable until the metadata is regenerated.

Workaround for anyone hitting this: ignore the file-index columns and locate episodes by scanning the parquets' own episode_index column (or use the global from/to indices), e.g.:

for f in sorted((ds.root / "data").rglob("*.parquet")):
    eps = set(pd.read_parquet(f, columns=["episode_index"])["episode_index"])
    if ep in eps:
        print(f)  # the file that actually contains the episode

Would it be possible to regenerate the data/file_index / data/chunk_index columns in meta/episodes from the actual parquet contents? Happy to provide more examples of affected episodes if useful. Thanks for publishing the dataset!