PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/datastore'

[skoulouzis]

when executing notebook: https://github.com/QCDIS/lifewatch-notebooks/blob/main/MULTIPLY/MULTIPLY_1_Data_access_pyth3.9.ipynb

We get the following error:

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PermissionError                           Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In [11], line 3
      1 # Setup clean working directory
      2 name = working_directory_name
----> 3 working_dir = get_working_dir(name)

Cell In [9], line 7, in get_working_dir(dir_name)
      5 if os.path.exists(working_dir):
      6     shutil.rmtree(working_dir)
----> 7 os.makedirs(working_dir)
      8 return working_dir

File /opt/conda/lib/python3.9/os.py:215, in makedirs(name, mode, exist_ok)
    213 if head and tail and not path.exists(head):
    214     try:
--> 215         makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok)
    216     except FileExistsError:
    217         # Defeats race condition when another thread created the path
    218         pass

File /opt/conda/lib/python3.9/os.py:215, in makedirs(name, mode, exist_ok)
    213 if head and tail and not path.exists(head):
    214     try:
--> 215         makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok)
    216     except FileExistsError:
    217         # Defeats race condition when another thread created the path
    218         pass

File /opt/conda/lib/python3.9/os.py:225, in makedirs(name, mode, exist_ok)
    223         return
    224 try:
--> 225     mkdir(name, mode)
    226 except OSError:
    227     # Cannot rely on checking for EEXIST, since the operating system
    228     # could give priority to other errors like EACCES or EROFS
    229     if not exist_ok or not path.isdir(name):

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/datastore'

[skoulouzis]

We need to change to a dir that we have access to as a user. i.e. change to ./datastore/. The notebook has been updated