desktop.ini error in window64 with pyq on jupyter notebook

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I am getting following error while loading data from C drive,

The same command works fine if i keep data and jupyter notebook on D drive.

I have also tried to run as administrator but it still fails.



Need to understand following error to troubleshoot.



---------------------------------------------------------------------------errorTraceback (most recent call last)\<ipython-input-3-062bdf9de0f4\>in\<module\>() 1----\> 2 get_ipython().run_line_magic('q','\\l /db/mdata') 3get_ipython().run_line_magic('q','count select from quote where date=2018.07.02')C:\pye\venv\Lib\site-packages\IPython\core\interactiveshell.pyinrun\_line\_magic(self, magic\_name, line, \_stack\_depth) 2129kwargs['local\_ns']=sys._getframe(stack_depth).f_locals 2130withself.builtin_trap:-\> 2131result=fn(\*args,\*\*kwargs) 2132returnresult 2133C:\pye\venv\Lib\site-packages\pyq\magic.pyinq(line, cell, \_ns) 58""" 59ifcellisNone:---\> 60returnpyq.q(line) 61 62if_nsisNone:C:\pye\venv\Lib\site-packages\pyq\_\_init\_\_.pyin\_\_call\_\_(self, m, \*args) 651"""Execute q code.""" 652try:--\> 653returnK._k(0,m,\*map(K,args)) 654exceptTypeError: 655ifmisnotNone:error: desktop.ini
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Remove desktop.ini from /db/mdata

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Thanks Flying, its works after removing desktop.ini file.

I understand that KDB loads everything from by \l command.

It recognized every this owned by q.

KDB should just ignore that is not recognized as q rather throwing error.

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Another way to think of it: The directory that you explicitly want q to load should follow the directory structure dictated by the manual. So if you are putting anything extra there, it breaks the system. This is just what “configuration by convention” means.

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Another similar issue often happens on MacOS because of .DS_Store files created by Finder.