Issue: NotADirectoryError while loading the CNN/Dailymail dataset
State: closed


Downloading and preparing dataset cnn_dailymail/3.0.0 (download: 558.32 MiB, generated: 1.28 GiB, post-processed: Unknown size, total: 1.82 GiB) to /root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/cnn_dailymail/3.0.0/3.0.0/0128610a44e10f25b4af6689441c72af86205282d26399642f7db38fa7535602...

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NotADirectoryError                        Traceback (most recent call last)

<ipython-input-9-cd4bf8bea840> in <module>()
     22 
     23 
---> 24 train = load_dataset('cnn_dailymail', '3.0.0', split='train')
     25 validation = load_dataset('cnn_dailymail', '3.0.0', split='validation')
     26 test = load_dataset('cnn_dailymail', '3.0.0', split='test')

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/root/.cache/huggingface/modules/datasets_modules/datasets/cnn_dailymail/0128610a44e10f25b4af6689441c72af86205282d26399642f7db38fa7535602/cnn_dailymail.py in _find_files(dl_paths, publisher, url_dict)
    132     else:
    133         logging.fatal("Unsupported publisher: %s", publisher)
--> 134     files = sorted(os.listdir(top_dir))
    135 
    136     ret_files = []

NotADirectoryError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/root/.cache/huggingface/datasets/downloads/1bc05d24fa6dda2468e83a73cf6dc207226e01e3c48a507ea716dc0421da583b/cnn/stories'

Looks like the google drive download failed.
I'm getting a `Google Drive - Quota exceeded` error while looking at the downloaded file.

We should consider finding a better host than google drive for this dataset imo
related : #873 #864 

It is working now, thank you. 

Should I leave this issue open to address the Quota-exceeded error?

Yes please. It's been happening several times, we definitely need to address it

Any updates on this one? I'm facing a similar issue trying to add CelebA.

I've looked into it and couldn't find a solution. This looks like a Google Drive limitation..
Please try to use other hosts when possible

The original links are google drive links.  Would it be feasible for HF to maintain their own servers for this? Also, I think the same issue must also exist with TFDS.

It's possible to host data on our side but we should ask the authors. TFDS has the same issue and doesn't have a solution either afaik.
Otherwise you can use the google drive link, but it it's not that convenient because of this quota issue.

Okay. I imagine asking every author who shares their dataset on Google Drive will also be cumbersome.

I am getting this error as well. Is there a fix?

Not as long as the data is stored on GG drive unfortunately.
Maybe we can ask if there's a mirror ?

Hi @JafferWilson is there a download link to get cnn dailymail from another host than GG drive ?

To give you some context, this library provides tools to download and process datasets. For CNN DailyMail the data are downloaded from the link you provide on your github repository. Unfortunately because of GG drive quotas, many users are not able to load this dataset.

The following copy of CNN/DM dataset, fixed the problem for me:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/ccdv/cnn_dailymail

Thanks for the link @mrazizi !

Apparently the original authors don't host the dataset themselves ("for legal reasons", source [here](https://github.com/abisee/cnn-dailymail/issues/9)).