allennlp.common.checks.ConfigurationError

[swati1504]

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Description

I am using allennlp 0.8.1 version On running the below code: !allennlp train legal.json -s tmp --include-package mylib it gives an error: allennlp.common.checks.ConfigurationError: 'Serialization directory (tmp) already exists and is not empty. Specify --recover to recover training from existing output.'

Looking for help. Thanks in advance.

Python traceback:

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Related issues or possible duplicates

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Environment

OS:Windows

Python version: Pthon 3.6+

Output of pip freeze:

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Steps to reproduce

Example source:

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[AkshitaB]

@swati1504 allennlp.common.checks.ConfigurationError: 'Serialization directory (tmp) already exists and is not empty. You need to delete the tmp directory (or use a different directory for your training run's output), and then the error should go away.

[swati1504]

Yes it was already resolved ! Thanks