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Databricks File System (Azure)

These articles can help you with the Databricks File System (DBFS).

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Cannot read Databricks objects stored in the DBFS root directory

Learn what to do when you cannot read Databricks objects stored in the DBFS root directory....

Last updated: March 8th, 2022 by Adam Pavlacka

How to specify the DBFS path

Learn how to specify the DBFS path in Apache Spark, Bash, DBUtils, Python, and Scala....

Last updated: December 9th, 2022 by ram.sankarasubramanian

Operation not supported during append

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Last updated: July 7th, 2022 by Adam Pavlacka

Parallelize filesystem operations

Parallelize Apache Spark filesystem operations with DBUtils and Hadoop FileUtil; emulate DistCp....

Last updated: December 9th, 2022 by sandeep.chandran

Upload large files using DBFS API 2.0 and PowerShell

Use PowerShell and the DBFS API to upload large files to your Databricks workspace....

Last updated: September 27th, 2022 by ravirahul.padmanabhan

Remount a storage account after rotating access keys

Cannot access storage after rotating access keys until all mount points using the account have been remounted....

Last updated: December 9th, 2022 by dayanand.devarapalli

FileReadException on DBFS mounted filesystem

Use dbutils.fs.refreshMounts() to refresh mount points before referencing a DBFS path in your Spark job....

Last updated: April 11th, 2023 by Gobinath.Viswanathan

Directory view in the workspace UI does not match the result obtained using the dbutils command

Use the file:/ prefix when accessing workspace files via dbutils....

Last updated: September 30th, 2024 by raahat.varma

Error while calling o430.mount and the executor has failed to refresh mounts

Use the refreshMounts command....

Last updated: November 17th, 2024 by alberto.umana

Download files from DBFS with the web browser

Make sure the DBFS File Browser is enabled if you want to download files from DBFS via the web....

Last updated: November 18th, 2024 by walter.camacho

Shell command %sh ls does not work on DBFS files or directories when using a shared cluster

Use a single access mode cluster, dbutils.fs.ls, or migrate to volumes....

Last updated: February 26th, 2025 by alberto.umana

UnsupportedOperationException error when trying to run queries interacting with event logs and multiple tables

Split queries into multiple notebook cells or use serverless compute....

Last updated: April 8th, 2025 by alberto.umana

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