Databricks DBFS File Browser not showing some DBFS root locations

Question

I have a fresh Azure Databricks instance that I'm doing some experimenting on. Per the Databricks documentation, I activated the DBFS File Browser in the Admin Console.

However, when browsing the DBFS root location, only FileStore , mnt and user folders are showing (see below). Reading this Databricks doc , I expected to also see databricks-datasets , databricks-results and databricks/init , but these are not showing in the GUI.

However, I am able to access eg databricks-datasets programatically through a notebook command:

Does anyone know what is going on here? At first I thought it may be different since it's an instance of Azure Databricks, but the Azure Databricks documentation is exactly the same and suggests I should be able to see the same root folders.

Why can I not see some DBFS root folders in the DBFS File Browser GUI, even though I can programatically access them?

Answer 1

I am noticing the same error. The DFFS root has databricks-datasets but the UI isn't showing it. For some reason, I can't even see it even with the CLI.

databricks fs ls

only shows the following folders

mnt
tmp
user

Answer 2

I have the same issue. There is no folder/file appearing in the UI of Databricks at the following location: dbfs/FileStore/ even after I do an upload. But it does appear in the notebook when I run dbutils.fs.ls("/FileStore/") .

However, the folders and files can be found in the UI at the following location: /FileStore/

Answer 3

I do also face the same issue. Morning all worked well.Now When i upload file in a new folder created using azure databricks explorer,it is not listing in notebook %ls command. But i can create new folder using mkdir command in notebook,that is listed. It is some bug in Databrick. enter image description here

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I have restarted Cluster,reloaded and resigned in notebook.But no solution.The same code was working well in morning.